"He would had always seen the world as 'chaos' and 'grief' (the mad and violent world he tried to control in paintings like 'The Destruction of Messina' [Beckmann's early painting in 1909] and who relied on his art 'to order this chaos.. ..to give it form' now found himself overwhelmed by formlessness and horror, helpless. [Beckmann was a medic in the first World War] ..After less than a year and a half, he had broken down in mind and body and was invalided out of service [in 1915]."
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Quote of Sister Wendy Beckett, in 'I am quite pleased that there is war', Max Beckmann and the Self, Prestel, Pegasus Library, 2003, p. 26
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