If you ever get a chance to see the European masters whilst the exhibition is in Melbourne/Australian at the National Galley, see it! Of course the standpoint for me was Max Beckmann paintings, which I feel represents some of the best post modernism/cubisms style (German/ European) art you'll ever see.
The one painting that stood out for me, and there were many striking paintings, was the Borneplatz Synagogue pic painted in 1919 by Max Beckmann. The symbolism and his forecast of the destruction of the Borneplatz Synagogue in Frankfurt that occured in 1938 by the Nazi's who burnt the Synagogue to the ground. Beckmann was an artist that knew trouble was brewing, the painting was a symbolized forecast that the Jewish persecution in German was just beginning, thus the painting showing the sloping section where the Synagogue stands, with the wise cat looking in that direction; as if to know about the future. An outstanding modern artist.
Incredible.
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