biography
pronunciation:
[pekhshtiyn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1881–1955)
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| biography:
| Painter and print-maker, born in Zwickau, E Germany. He studied in Dresden, where he joined the avant-garde Die Brücke group in 1906. From 1908 he helped found the rival Neue Sezession in Berlin, and developed a colourful style indebted to Matisse and to the Fauvists. He taught at the Berlin Academy from 1923 until he was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933. He was reinstated in 1945. |
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