Max Beckmann, born in Leipzig in 1884, attended the Weimar Academy from 1899 to 1903. He lived in Paris, Geneva and Florence and from 1907 in Berlin. In 1915 he moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he taught at the Städel Art School until 1933. In 1937 he emigrated to Holland and moved from there to New York in 1947, where he died in New York in 1950. Klaus Gallwitz, born In 1930, from 1959 to 1967 he was managing director of the Badische Kunstverein in Karlsruhe and directed the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden from 1967 to 1974. He was a member of the documenta council for the 4th documenta in 1968 in Kassel from 1966 to 1968. In 1974 he was appointed director of the Städelschen Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main, which he presided until 1994. At the same time, he was an honorary professor at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main. Since 1984, Klaus Gallwitz has been spokesman of the consultant group for the art exhibitions of the Council of Europe, he has been a consultant of the art collection of Deutsche Bank for many years. Since 1995, Gallwitz has been the artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems. From 2004 to 2006 he was founding director of the Museum Frieder Burda and from 2006 to 2008 founding director of the Arp Museum in Rolandseck. He has been the curator of the Rau Collection since 2009. Gallwitz is considered an international expert for Max Beckmann. Klaus Gallwitz lives in Karlsruhe.Uwe M. Schneede, geb. In 1939, was professor of art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München until 1991 and director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle from 1991 to 2006.