Curt Querner - Artist Info

About Curt Querner

  • Biography from the Archives of askART

    Curt Querner biographical photo
    Curt Querner was born in 1904 near Dresden. He was a worker in a glass production factory before studying at the Dresden Art Academy. In 1930 he left the Academy to join the KPD (German Communist Party).

    Querner, a prolific painter, became well known for his portrait works. His art fell into the category of the Neue Sachlichkeit, or "New Objectivity" school. The term applied to all artworks that represented social and economic realities in a realistic and unsentimental manner.
    Source:
    Website of Art for A Change, 2020
  • Biography from Auktionshaus Heickmann

    1921-26 working as a mechanic, in 1926 studied at the Dresden Art Academy under R. Müller and H. Dittrich, 1929-30 studied with Otto Dix and Georg Lührig, 1930 Member of Dresden and the ASSO "Dresden secession 1932", 1940-47 soldier and French prisoners of war, from 1947 again based in Börnchen, 1972 National prize of East Germany

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