Oskar Fischer (painter)

Oskar Fischer (center) in conversation with Otto Nagel (left) in 1952

Oskar Fischer (born August 4, 1892 in Karlsruhe , † February 3, 1955 in Berlin-Köpenick ) was a German expressionist painter and communist.

Life

Fischer did an apprenticeship as a decorative painter. He attended the arts and crafts school for three years and the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe for two years . He then worked as a painter and commercial artist. He was a member of the Rih group . He was painting in Karlsruhe some time before it was founded and before his participation in the First World War, as a self-portrait auctioned in 2004 is dated 1911 and the Karlsruhe address "Bismarckstraße 37a" is on the stretcher.

He was married to Elise glasses since 1917. In 1919 he became a member of the Spartakusbund . In Berlin since 1921, Fischer was part of the November Group and the Sturm ; he was a member of the KPD . Among other things, he accommodated comrades living illegally. He worked for left magazines. In 1928 he went to Moscow as a technical assistant for the Comintern Congress . During the National Socialist era , he worked as a radio operator for the KPD from 1933 to 1936, producing forged papers. He was the maker of a stamp for the European Union (resistance group) . When it was exposed, Fischer was also arrested on September 18, 1943. The arrest warrant was overturned on February 11, 1944 for lack of evidence, and in March he was released from the Brandenburg-Görden prison. In the last weeks of the war the Nazis drafted him into the Volkssturm , so he was taken prisoner by the Soviets on May 1, 1945, from which he was released on May 3. Then he was an editor at the Deutsche Volkszeitung , later at Neues Deutschland . In 1949 he moved to East Berlin. In 1952 Fischer retired.