Young Men by the Sea is an oil on canvas painting by Max Beckmann, executed in 1905.

Beckmann had visited France the previous year and had the chance of knowing personally the work of several contemporary French painters.

The work seems to reflect an ideal of male classical beauty, with the boys in the foreground appearing in several poses, giving it the resemblance of an anatomic study, and at the same time illustrates his interest by the sea.

The academic training of the young painter is connected to his still recent knowledge of more contemporary artistic tendencies, that would influence him greatly in the future.

[3] Karl Scheffler stated back then that Young Men at the Sea, demonstrated "an extraordinary sensitive for the musical human dynamism in older pictures."