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Hans Bellmer was a German graphic artist, sculptor, photographic artist, illustrator, and writer who spent most of his life in France.
In the 1930s Bellmer began working on the eroticized image of the deformed doll, contrasting it with the aesthetics of the "classical" body in Hitler's Germany. His graphic and literary explorations focus on the dismemberment and liberation of bodies. Bellmer's surrealist works are violent and provocative: they include puppet sculptures composed of the bodies of nude models, photographs, and prints.
In 1934, 18 photographs of dolls were published in the Parisian surrealist magazine Minotaur, and the Nazi regime declared Bellmer's art degenerate. In 1938, Bellmer emigrated to France.
After the end of the war, the artist continued his work, adding poetry to painting. He also authored illustrations for many works, particularly on erotic themes.
Rudolf Grossmann (German: Rudolf Grossmann, or Großmann), full name Rudolf Wilhelm Walther Grossmann, was a German painter, draftsman, illustrator and graphic artist.
Born into an artistic family, Grossmann began his education in painting and printmaking at the Düsseldorf Academy before continuing his studies in Paris with Lucien Simon and Pouleroz. Among his best-known works are various portrait drawings of celebrities, notably those published in the satirical periodical Simplicissimus; he was also known for his book illustrations. Grossmann began publishing his prints in 1905, and many major publishers in Germany and France commissioned his work. He later concentrated on figurative works and urban scenes, which showed the influence of Cézanne and Pasquin.
From 1928 until Hitler's Nazi Party came to power, Grossmann taught at the Berlin Royal School of Art and was a member of the Berlin Secession and the Deutsche Kunstlerbund. In 1934, his work, like that of many of his colleagues, was stigmatized as degenerate and confiscated by the Nazi government, and he was disbarred from practicing his profession. He soon left for Freiberg im Beisgau, where he died on November 28, 1941.
Peter Hirsch is a German painter, graphic artist and draftsman as a child private lessons in painting, apprenticeship as a lithographer, studied at the Munich Academy. He loaded exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace and in the Kunstverein, ostracized as "degenerate" in Germany 1933-45 partly active in the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, England, France, Hungary and Switzerland, from 1944 temporarily relocated to the Schliersee, before 1930 -1969 lecturer at the Munich Adult Education Center.
Roger Loewig was a German artist, illustrator and writer.
In addition to working as a teacher of Russian, German and history, Loewig independently practiced painting and drawing. In 1963, he organized an exhibition of his work, but was arrested on charges of "incitement endangering the state". Most of his paintings and literary texts were confiscated.
In 1972, he left for the Federal Republic of Germany, where he found recognition for his talent. Along with Günter Grass, Christoph Meckel and others, he joined the wide circle of "Berlin poets-artists", and Loewig's visual art became recognized as fantastic realism. Loewig's artworks and texts about war, flight, exile, and unfreedom placed him among the most important German artists of the postwar period.
Friedrich August Weinzheimer was a German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist.
Weinzheimer studied at the Düsseldorf Academy, was co-founder and chairman of the Cologne Association of Artists, later took an active part in the Secession, the Cologne Secession.
Weinzheimer's best-known work is the cycle Dante's Inferno. In 1937, six of his works in Germany were demonstrably confiscated from state collections as part of the Nazi "Degenerate Art" campaign.