Willy Robert Huth (1890 - 1977)

Willy Robert Huth

Willi Robert Huth was a German expressionist painter. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Erfurt and Düsseldorf. During the First World War, he served as a soldier.  In 1919 he began independent activities in Berlin as an artist. In the same year he joined the expressionist group Jung Erfurt.

With the onset of the Nazi regime, Huth was suppressed as an artist. Later he was even banned from holding exhibitions. Three of his works were confiscated during the "degenerate art movement."  In 1944 his studio in Berlin was bombed and all his works were destroyed.

After the war Willy Robert Huth became a drawing teacher and then professor at the Academy of Applied Arts in Berlin.