1892 – 1970:
German painter and photographer (Dresden 1892 – Birkenwerder 1970).
After his studies in Dresden, he was part of the second generation of Expressionism, while being close to the aesthetics of the Blaue Reiter. His paintings remain figurative and use deformed and stylized elements. His compositions have the particularity of integrating the frame, as Arthur Segal did in a different spirit. In Village avec araignée (1920, Berlin, Berlinische Gal.), the artist plays on the effects of depth and planes thanks to this process: the frame is in places merged with the canvas, with which it forms a continuous plane; in others, it protrudes and reveals depth.
Exhibits in 1923 at the Der Sturm gallery.
Moves to Berlin in 1927.