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| (1884–1950)
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| Expressionist painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, born in Leipzig, EC Germany. He trained at Weimar, and in 1904 moved to Berlin where he began painting large-scale, dramatic works. The suffering he witnessed as a hospital orderly in World War 1 led him to develop a highly individual style influenced by Gothic art, which he used to give voice to the disillusionment he saw around him in post-war Germany. When he learnt that his work was to be included in an exhibition of Degenerate Art to be mounted by the Nazis in 1937, he fled to Holland, where he lived until emigrating to the USA in 1947. |
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