Conrad Felixmüller, a renowned German Expressionist painter and printmaker, is renowned for his vibrant and graphic landscape and portrait pieces. During the 1930s, his art took on a more poised color scheme and focused on realistic, genre-style representation – a significant contrast from his earlier, socio-critical work. Hailing from Dresden, Germany, he commenced his studies under Carl Bantzer at the prestigious Dresden Academy of Art and later worked at Ludwig Meidner’s studio. In 1917, Felixmüller established the influential monthly periodical MENSCHEN, which championed progressive art and literature. A few years later, he co-founded the German Expressionist group, Dresden Secession, alongside Otto Schubert and Otto Dix, who was once his student. Around the same period, he published his autobiography “Mein Werden” and his musings on artistic design, “Künstlerische Gestaltung.” However, the advent of Nazism saw his paintings on display in notorious exhibitions such as “Reflections of Decay” in 1933 and “Degenerate Art” in 1937, which resulted in the confiscation of his works from public collections. He later taught drawing and painting at Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle from 1949 to 1961 before retiring in Berlin. The artist breathed his last on March 24, 1977, in Berlin, Germany. Felixmüller’s masterpieces can be found in renowned collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, the Von der Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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