Kurt cloth

Kurt Tuch (* 27. May 1877 in Leipzig , † 23. November 1963 in Muri AG , Switzerland ) was a German painter , draftsman and lithographer of Expressionism .

After finishing vocational school in 1895, Tuch attended the Munich Art Academy . In 1905 he was one of the first Villa Romana Prize winners. Shortly afterwards he married the Dutch woman Petronella Nijland. Kurt Tuch was an early member of the German Association of Artists ; his name is already listed in the membership directory from 1906. In 1910 he became a professor at the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts . In 1912 Tuch founded the Boerde artists' association with Max Beckmann . He worked in Wernigerode until 1925 , after which he moved to Switzerland . After 1933 he did not return to Germany. He then made a living from portrait and landscape painting and turned to Rudolf Steiner's theory of colors in his old age .

literature

Cloth, Kurt . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 470 .

↑ s. List of members in the catalog of the 3rd German Artists Association , Weimar 1906. P. 57: Tuch, Kurt, Maler, Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 125. online (accessed on May 16, 2016)

personal data
SURNAME	Cloth, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, draftsman and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	November 23, 1963
Place of death	Muri AG , Switzerland