Paul Kother

Paul Kother (born May 1, 1878 in Leipzig , † July 7, 1963 in Weimar ) was a German expressionist painter .

He attended the Leipzig Art Academy from 1894 to 1896 and then the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Dresden until 1898 . From 1898 to 1899 he lived in a shared studio apartment with Otto Mueller . From 1909 he lived in Dresden . There he met Max Pechstein and Käthe Kollwitz . Here he was involved in larger exhibitions. In 1914 he moved to Berlin, where he made contact with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Conrad Felixmüller . From 1915 to 1918 he was drafted into military service. From 1916 several exhibitions took place in Berlin. In 1922 he received the honorary award of the Prussian Academy of the Arts from Max Liebermann . Since 1928 Kother lived in Weimar. During the National Socialism he made a living through harmless genre pictures. 1952 became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Germany . In the last years of his life he worked withdrawn and without contact to artist colleagues in the Weimar studio house.

Works (selection)

• Judaskuss, undated (around 1912), watercolor.
• Mocking Christ, undated (around 1912), watercolor.
• Resting soldiers, undated (around 1915), charcoal drawing.
• French prisoners playing cards, 1915, charcoal drawing.

literature

• Expressive representationalism - the fate of figurative painting and graphics in the 20th century: works from the Gerhard Schneider collection . Published by Rolf Jessewitsch, Gerhard Schneider, Axel Wendelberger, druckVerlag Kettler, Bönen / Westphalia 2001, ISBN 978-3-93501-920-0 , p. 560.