Alexander Gerbig (1878 - 1948)

Alexander Gerbig

Alexander Gerbig was a German expressionist painter, graphic artist and decorative artist.

Gerbig worked successfully as a decorative painter, studied at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Dresden and later at the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden, traveled Europe on study tours, and won various awards for his paintings.

He served as a soldier during World War I and made numerous sketches of the events he witnessed. In the 1920s Gerbig held several successful exhibitions and actively socialized with almost all art associations of the time. During the years of National Socialist rule in Germany, Gerbig's work was declared degenerate, his paintings were withdrawn from museums and he was forbidden to paint. In 1945, however, he became honorary chairman of the visual arts section of the Zuhl Cultural Association.