[1] Von Beckerath studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf[1] from 1885 to 1895, with Heinrich Lauenstein, Hugo Crola, Adolf Schill and Peter Janssen.

[2] Von Beckerath made a charcoal drawing of Brahms at the piano with crossed hand in 1896, and a tempura painting of the motif in 1911.

[4] In 1902, Von Beckerath co-founded, together with the architect Karl Bertsch (1873–1933) and Adelbert Niemeyer, the Münchner Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst, a workshop for craftsmanship in Munich.

[1] Von Beckerath designed furniture and also furnishings for churches such as pews, confessionals, baptismal fonts, holy water basins and small sculptures.

[5] His mural in three parts depicts naked persons in a landscape, who pick fruits, make music, play or bathe.

Die ewige Welle was covered with monochrome plaster in the 1950s, but the whole Aula was restored over five years to its original appearance, for the centenary in 2013.

[7] Von Beckerath made two large biblical paintings, Die Predigt des Johannes (The Sermon of St. John, 1907) and Kreuzigung (Crucifixion, 1910).