Georg Scholz, the New Objectivity

Self-portrait, 1926

The German artist Georg Scholz 

... had his artistic training at the Karlsruhe Academy. His teachers included Hans Thoma. He later studied in Berlin under Lovis Corinth. After military service in World War I, he resumed painting, working in a style which can be described as both cubist and futurist.

In 1919 he became a member of the Communist Party, and his work of the next few years is harshly critical of the social and economic order in postwar Germany.

Scholz was one of the leaders of the New Objectivity school, along with Otto Dix, George Grosz and Christian Schad. He was appointed a professor at the State Academy of Art in Karlsruhe in 1925. Scholz began contributing in 1926 to the satirical magazine Simplicissimus, and in 1928 he visited Paris where he especially appreciated the work of Pierre Bonnard.

With the rise to power of Hitler and the National Socialists in 1933, Scholz was quickly dismissed from his teaching position. Declared a Degenerate Artist, his works were among those seized in 1937 as part of a campaign by the Nazis to "purify" German culture, and he was forbidden to paint in 1939. He died in 1945, shortly after the war end.

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