Francis Dellgruen

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Franziskus Adolph Dellgruen (born October 14, 1901 in Cologne , † March 26, 1984 in Berlin ) was a German modern painter and graphic artist .

life and work

From 1917 to 1922 Franziskus Dellgruen was a student at the School of Applied Arts in Cologne. From 1923 to 1927 he studied as a master student of Professor Robert Sterl at the Academy of Arts (Dresden) . Franziskus Dellgrün received the anniversary grant from the city of Dresden in 1927. For a while he was a guest student with Oskar Kokoschka . After studying in Italy, he came to Berlin in 1928, whereupon he studied at the Academy of Arts as a master student of Professor Max Slevogt until 1931 .

In the following years he lived as a freelance artist in Berlin. He regularly took part in the great Berlin art exhibitions at the time, most recently in 1933 in the spring exhibition on Pariser Platz, which was opened by Max Liebermann .

In spite of or because of the speculative destruction of the works he had produced up to then as well as his imprisonment as a prisoner of war until 1945, Franziskus Dellgruen now produces works in numerous styles with an increased degree of personal expressiveness.

In the subsequent period only a few institutions and galleries succeeded in animating the introverted artist to exhibit.

Some of Dellgruen's pictures and portrait drawings can be found in the Berlin Palace Park and Schiller Theater .

Exhibitions

  • Free Berlin Art Exhibitions (FBK)
  • Robert Sterl House in Naundorf : Paintings and drawings by the Sterl student - special exhibition

to travel

Eastern and Southern Europe, Israel, Tunisia

Web links

supporting documents

  1. http://www.robert-sterl-haus.de/cgi-bin/page.pl?idx=148