Albert Burkart (1898 - 1982)

Albert Burkart

Albert Burkart was a German painter. His artistic work was based on the style of the New Objectivity around 1925. Burkart began working as a freelance painter in Munich in 1925. In the following years he created pictures and graphic sheets for the annual exhibitions in Munich and the galleries Heinemann and Tannhäuser. He also worked for Munich publishers, including the magazine Die Jugend. The Bavarian state and the city of Munich bought several of his works. He painted and drew industrial landscapes, workers, suburbs, old people and children in the big city before starting to create religious paintings, frescoes and stained glass windows and work for churches. One of his first religious works was the monumental painting of the choir of the Church of St. Joseph in Memmingen. His paintings combine sacral depictions with rich narratives and an architectural conception of space. Albert Burkart was a member of the artists' association "7 Munich painters". The association existed between 1930 and 1937.