Georg Hummitzsch

Georg Hummitzsch (born July 20, 1898 in Leipzig , † January 31, 1982 in Moosburg an der Isar ) was a German painter .

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a lithographer, Hummitzsch studied art at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig and at the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig, violin and piano with a “royal Saxon” scholarship . During the First World War he served as a mountain trooper and was wounded four times. After the war he studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau (under the direction of Walter Gropius ) in the wall painting class and then became a lecturer in the nude and portrait class at the Leipzig Academy. As a freelance artist, he worked temporarily with Oskar Kokoschka and George Grosz . In 1933 he was classified as a degenerate artist . During the Second World War he was assigned to the security staff from Stammlager_VII_A to Moosburg as a war correspondent, where he stayed until his death after the end of the war. After the war he became a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art , branch Europe in Erding and founded the Moosburger Malschule Hummitzsch in which he mainly taught portrait painting, drawings and etchings and which still exists today. In addition to his teaching activities, he implemented a large number of public commissions for art and construction. Hummitzsch died in Moosburg in 1982 at the age of 84.

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SURNAME	Hummitzsch, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 20, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	January 31, 1982
Place of death	Moosburg on the Isar