Conrad Westpfahl - Artist Info

About Conrad Westpfahl

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Conrad Westphahl, Conrad Westphal, Conrad Whestpfhal
  • Biography

    Conrad Westpfahl * 1891 Berlin † 1976 Wetzhausen

    Conrad Westpfahl was born in Berlin on 23 November 1891, the son of the sculptor Ernst Westpfahl. In 1907 Conrad Westphal began to study under Emil Orlik at the school associated with the Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum. Since Westpfahl was dissatisfied with Orlik's teaching, he transferred to the Munich Art Academy in 1913, where he studied under the genre painter and portraitist Hugo Freiherr von Habermann.

    A year later Conrad Westpfal was attending the private Académie Ranson in Paris as a pupil of Felix Vallotton's when the first world war broke out. Conrad Westpfahl served during the war as a battery commander and aviator. Returning to Berlin in 1918, he set up a studio. ...

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