Peter Kuit as Max Beckmann (excerpt performance part 2)

In his performance Peter Kuit portrays the departure to Amsterdam of the German expressionist painter Max Beckmann when his art was condemned as 'entartete kunst' in 1937. In Amsterdam Beckmann lives an intellectual, socially withdrawn life as a painter but also frequents the variety theatres and bars of the late thirties. Kuit shows both sides of Beckmann's life. As a tap dancer he refers to the variety theaters of the thirties and forties, but purposely uses another contemporary tap dancing technique as well. This performance is part of the exposition "Max Beckmann in Amsterdam, 1937-1947" at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.

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• Peter_Kuit
• Veenfabriek
• Van_Gogh_Museum
• Max_Beckmann_in_Amsterdam
• performance
• tap_dance

[Annemarie92]

This is fantastic! I want to learn tapdancing now... =P Once had a lesson clogging, but that's way too long a go..

[AngstAngel1989]

this is freakin hillarious!!!!!!!!