Josef Seché (painter)

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Josef Seché (* 19th March 1880 in Cologne , † 1948 in Seefeld , middle-class, full name: Emil Josef Karl Sechehaye ) was a German painter and commercial artist .

Life

Josef Seché was born in 1880 as the son of the Cologne architect Josef Seché (1850–1901) and initially studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart . From 1905 he studied painting at the Munich Art Academy , where he was a student of Franz von Stuck and Hugo von Habermann .

Seché married Johanna Hilda Schwarz (1897–1942) from Augsburg , who was of Jewish faith. The couple lived in Munich and had a son, René Sechehaye, born in 1924.

Still life (1955)
Stumbling block for Johanna Seché in Berlin

In the 1920s, Seché designed Art Déco- style posters for various Munich cafés, theaters and casinos . He drew the poster for the Reichs-Süßwaren-Messe in Munich in 1924 and the poster for the Great Artists' Costume Festival in 1925 . Many engravings were also made during this time . He later moved to Berlin and taught there at the Reimann School .

Under the pressure of increasing anti-Semitism , Josef Seché and his wife separated from each other around 1930. Johanna Sechehaye was deported from Berlin to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and murdered in Bernburg in 1942 . At that time Josef Seché lived and worked in Breitbrunn am Ammersee . After 1945 he earned his living with folklore depictions of customs.

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personal data
SURNAME Seché, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sechehaye, Emil Josef Karl (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 1948
Place of death Seefeld (Upper Bavaria)