Georg Schrimpf (1889-1938)

Professions: Painter; Commercial artist

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  Georg Schrimpf (1889-1938)

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  GEORG SCHRIMPF München 1898 - 1938 Berlin

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Georg Schrimpf Biography

(b Munich, 13 Feb 1889; d Berlin, 19 April 1938). German painter and graphic artist. He was self-taught; a legacy allowed him to travel widely through Europe and to devote himself to painting. From 1909 he was in Munich where he developed a decorative Expressionist style. His first designs were published in Franz Pfemfert’s politically motivated arts periodical Die Aktion . During World War I Schrimpf was in Berlin, where he was encouraged by Herwarth Walden. He continued to work in an Expressionist style comparable to that of Heinrich Campendonk, providing designs for influential periodicals such as Walden’s Der Sturm , Der Anbruch and Kunstblatt . He married the German painter Maria Uhden (1892–1918) in 1916, and her premature death in childbirth was to have a striking effect on his subsequent artistic work, which was more lyrical and precise, and which most often featured young women, for example Young Girl Seated (1923; Hamburg, priv. col.) and Girl by a Window (1937; London, Runkel–Hue–Williams Gal.). He participated in the brief period of Communist government in Munich (1919), but his encounter with the Italian primitives and the artists associated with Pittura Metafisica on a trip to Italy in 1922 confirmed a tendency towards a timeless, poetical realism that places his post-war work firmly within the more romantic trends of the Neue Sachlichkeit. He taught at the Staatliche Kunstschule in Munich from 1926, and in 1933 was appointed a professor at the Staatliche Westenriede-Gewerbeschule in Berlin-Schönberg by its National Socialist director, the German painter Alexander Kanoldt (1881–1939). He received official commissions from the Third Reich until shortly before his death. Despite this his work was also included in the notorious exhibition Entartete Kunst in Munich in 1937.

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