Karl Zerbe

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Karl Zerbe (born September 16, 1903 in Berlin , † November 24, 1972 in Tallahassee , Florida ) was a German-American painter .

Life

Zerbes family moved from Berlin to France in 1904. He attended elementary school in Paris. In 1914 they moved to Frankfurt am Main and Zerbe studied chemistry in 1920 at the Technical University in Friedberg . From 1923 he studied painting at the Debschitz School in Munich under Josef Eberz .

In 1931 he and other painters founded an exhibition group that became known as the Seven Munich Painters . The association included Albert Burkart , Franz Doll , Günther Graßmann , Wilhelm Maxon , Otto Nückel and Walter Schulz-Matan , who first appeared publicly in 1931 in the Munich Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus . Until the final dissolution of the German Association of Artists (DKB) by the National Socialist Reich Chamber of Art , Zerbe was also a member. One last entry by Karl Zerbe in the list of full members of the DKB can be found in the list from 1936. However, when the National Socialists came to power, their artistic possibilities were systematically restricted. Their last joint public appearance took place in the summer of 1937.

Zerbe became famous in 1932 for his oil painting Herbstgarten (Autumn Garden). This work was acquired by the National Gallery , Berlin. In 1937 it was designated as " degenerate art " by the National Socialists and destroyed. In 1934 he left Germany. Zerbe had a Jewish background. From 1937 to 1955, Karl Zerbe was head of the painting department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He became a US citizen in 1939. From 1955 he was a professor at the University of Florida .

literature

  • Elke Lauterbach: Seven Munich painters: An exhibition group in the period from 1931–1937 (= writings from the Institute for Art History at the University of Munich. Volume 70.) Munich 1999.
  • Zerbe, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 463 .
  • Zerbe, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 203 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership directory of the DKB from 1936. In: 1936 forbidden pictures. Exhibition catalog for the 34th annual exhibition of the DKB in Bonn. Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1986, pp. 98–99.
  2. ^ Judith Arlene Bookbinder: Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism . UPNE, 2005, ISBN 978-1-58465-488-9 ( books.google.es - photo of the destroyed oil painting Autumn Garden , S / W).
  3. ^ Weimar: Karl Zerbe. June 26, 2010 weimarart.blogspot.de .
personal data
SURNAME Zerbe, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1972
Place of death Tallahassee