This painter was stripped of his professorship at the Stadelschule of Frankfurt in 1933.
One painting by this man shows a figure wearing blue squatting precariously on a thin wooden block and who is removed from a group of clowns, and a large crowd visible in the background. Another painting by this man shows a yellow light shining on a figure as he frees himself from chains and is escaping the darkness behind the window. Acrobat on Trapeze and The Liberated One are paintings by this artist, who outlined his vision of a new social order in The Artist in the State. One painting by this man titles a book by critic Jill Lloyd and depicts a figure wearing a striped night gown as he holds a silver horn to his ear; another work depicts this artist in front of a purple screen holding a cigarette and wearing a tuxedo. This painter was stripped of his professorship at the Stadelschule of Frankfurt in 1933. For 10 points, name this artist who created numerous self-portraits, and painted the triptych Carnival after fleeing Nazi Germany, where his art was deemed "Degenerate."
One painting by this man shows a figure wearing blue squatting precariously on a thin wooden block and who is removed from a group of clowns, and a large crowd visible in the background.
Max Beckmann