Max Beckmann. (Preview).CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU Born in Leipzig battle of Leipzig, Oct. 16–19, 1813, also called the Battle of the Nations, was a decisive victory of the Austrian, Russian, and Prussian forces over Napoleon I. On Oct. 16 the Prussians under General Blücher defeated the French under Auguste de Marmont at Möckern, near Leipzig. A peace offer by the vastly outnumbered French army was rejected on the following day while the Allies closed in. On Oct., schooled in Weimar Weimar (vī`mär), city (1994 pop. 58,807), E Thuringia, central Germany, on the Ilm River. It is an industrial, transportation, and cultural center. Manufactures include agricultural machinery, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and furniture. Known in the 10th cent., Weimar became important only in the 16th cent., Max Beckmann might have turned out to be another Bauhaus Bauhaus (bou`hous), school of art and architecture in Germany. The Bauhaus revolutionized art training by combining the teaching of the pure arts with the study of crafts. Philosophically, the school was built on the idea that design did not merely reflect society, it could actually help to improve it. artist had he not set his sights on Paris and, later, Berlin. As a belated Symbolist in the tradition of Hans von Marees, he produced an unforgettable series of devotional triptychs. As an incisive Neue Sachlichkeit Neue Sachlichkeit: see new objectivity. portraitist and chronicler, he nailed the decadence of the Weimar Republic Weimar Republic: see Germany.. And as a political exile in St. Louis, he practiced a neo-mannerism man·ner·ism (m  n  -r z that puts Thomas Hart Benton to shame and presages early Pollock. Now this first French retrospective, curated by the Pompidou's Didier Ottinger, will lay out the breadth of Beckmann's achievement in all its glory. Sept. 11-Jan. 6.
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