Focus on this artwork and explain the Reception.
The painting was highly appreciated at his time. Beckmann was awarded the Villa Prize and the painting was acquired by the Schloss Weimar, in Weimar, where it still hangs. Karl Scheffler stated back then that Young Men at the Sea, demonstrated "an extraordinary sensitive for the musical human dynamism in older pictures." In 1908, Beckmann admitted that the painting wasn't sufficiently original, because it lacked his own personal stamp.
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