Franz Becker (painter)
Franz Becker (* 1907 in Dessau ; † 1990 in Weinsberg ) was a German painter who gained some fame primarily through his landscape painting.
Life
After an apprenticeship as a painter, he began his training as a painter at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1925 . There he was a student of Kandinsky and Hofer, and later at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen with Prof. Iversen and Fries. In 1931 Becker came to Weinsberg, where he met his wife and lived and worked until his death, interrupted by war and imprisonment.
In addition to some expressionistic, abstract works in earlier days as an artist, Becker concentrated primarily on landscape painting, influenced and inspired by numerous trips. That is why some of his pictures are also marked with the signature DACHS, a synonym for the roots in Dessau / Anhalt, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki.
Becker worked as a freelance artist in Weinsberg until a few years before his death, before an eye disease ended his creative path.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Becker, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1990 |
| Place of death | Weinberg |