Robert Lauth

Robert Lauth (born June 6, 1896 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † December 27, 1985 there ) was a landscape painter from the Palatinate .

He was particularly influenced by the French Impressionists , whose works he studied in Paris . In 1952 he founded the Ludwigshafen artists' association "Der Anker" with a few painters colleagues, which still exists today.

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His motifs primarily revolve around the landscape of his native Palatinate and the countries he traveled to. He undertook extensive study trips to the French and Italian Mediterranean and to Paris. In his light, airy spring pictures with blooming almond trees, wings and rolling hills of the Palatinate landscape, he expressed the atmospheric mood of the landscape.

He repeatedly exhibited his pictures with Max Slevogt and Hans Purrmann in Ludwigshafen and Neustadt. He was a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzer Künstler (APK) founded in 1922 , in which Slevogt and Purrmann were also active.

Works are in the permanent collection of the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern and the Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen.

In recognition of his life's work, his hometown Ludwigshafen am Rhein dedicated a street to him.

In a monograph published in 2017 under the title "I only dedicated myself to art - From Nazi perpetrator to honorary citizen - Letters from a concentration camp commandant", Horst Decker tries to find the Luftwaffe officer complicit in recruiting by analyzing Robert Lauth's letters from the field To prove the internment and deportation of Jewish slave laborers.

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1. ↑ Decker, Horst, 1947-: I only dedicated myself to art: from Nazi perpetrator to honorary citizen: Letters from a concentration camp commandant . Bielefeld, ISBN 978-3-938969-49-6 .