Gerd Bohme - Artist Info

About Gerd Bohme

  • Biography from Mehlis

    Artist info: German painter and graphic artist. Painter and graphic artist (1899 Naußlitz near Dresden until 1978 Dresden-Dölzschen), from 1915 apprenticeship as a lithographer, 1919-23 pupil at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts, 1923-29 studied at the Dresden Academy under Richard Müller, Otto Gussmann, Otto Hettner and Otto Dix, freelance work in Dresden from 1929.

    Member of the "Dresden Secession 1932" from 1932-33, ostracised as "degenerate" after 1933, confiscation and destruction of his painting "Tiger's Head" from the Dresden Picture Gallery in 1937, participation in World War 2, destruction of numerous early works.

    After 1945 he worked freelance in Dresden-Dölzschen, member of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) of the GDR, represented in the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Lindenau-Museum Altenburg and the Galerie "Neue Meister" Dresden, source: AKL, Eisold "Künstler in der DDR", "Dix-Schüler. Proximity and Distance. - Kunstsammlung Gera 1995", Müller-Kelwing "Die Dresdner Sezession 1932." and Wikipedia.

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