German painter Max Beckmann returns to Manhattan in new show

In December 1950, the painter Max Beckmann ventured out of his New York home to see his "Self-Portrait in Blue Jacket," then on view at the city's Metropolitan Museum of Art. On Wednesday, the museum will open a new exhibition called "Max Beckmann in New York" to celebrate his connection to the city where he settled in September 1949 and lived out the last months of his life. Before the Nazi regime labeled his works "degenerate" and removed them from German museums in 1937, Beckmann (1884-1850)