Gisbert Palmié

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Gisbert Palmié (born November 19, 1897 in Munich , † April 21, 1986 in Murnau am Staffelsee ) was a German painter. He was the son of the Munich landscape painter Charles Palmié .

Gisbert Palmié received his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from Professors Adolf Hengeler and Ludwig von Herterich . In the 1930s he was best known for his “Aryan” portraits of women. He was considered a representative of anti-modernism . In the Munich House of German Art he exhibited in 1935 and repeatedly during the war years. During the war, he served in Munich for an interpreter and war reporter company and, most recently, in troop support in numerous hospitals in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

After the war he lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen until 1957 and in Atlanta , Georgia (USA) after 1957 . He was widely recognized as a portrait painter. Above all, industrialists, artists and women liked to be portrayed by him. His pictures of Richard Strauss , US Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and US General George S. Patton became famous.

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