Georg Nerlich was a German artist born in Oppeln, Germany in 1892. He studied at the Academy Breslau and was a member of the Artists' Association of Silesia and the German Werkbund. During the Nazi regime, he was defamed as "degenerate" from 1937-45. After the war, he worked as a freelance artist in Dresden and later became a professor at the TH Dresden. He was a member of the Verband Bildender Künstler (VBK) of the GDR and lived in Dresden-Loschwitz. He died in Dresden in 1982. Sources include Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Eisold "Künstler in der DDR" and Wikipedia.

Georg Nerlich studied at the Breslau Academy of Art and Applied Arts from 1912 to 1917. After passing his state examination as an art teacher in 1917, he pursued further studies under the tutelage of Oskar Moll. His artist friends during his Breslau years included Oskar Schlemmer, Georg Muche, Alexander Kanoldt, Carlo Mense, and Otto Mueller. His artistic work during this period was influenced by Expressionism. In 1920, he joined the Silesian Artists' Association and the German Werkbund. Declared "degenerate" in 1937, Nerlich developed his impressionistic style with expressive colors. A large part of his pre-war work was lost in 1945 due to the war.

Georg Nerlich (1893-1982)

He studied from 1912 at the Wroclaw Academy of Fine and Applied Arts among others with Otto Pankok and Hans Poelzig. Vilified by the Nazis, as a "degenerate artist", he was appointed professor of painting and graphic design at the Technical University of Dresden in 1948.