Paul Kleinschmidt

Paul Kleinschmidt ( born July 31, 1883 in Bublitz / Pomerania; † August 2, 1949 in Bensheim ) was a German painter.

Life

Kleinschmidt came from a family of artists. The father was director of a traveling theater, the mother an actress. At 19 years, son Paul decided on the visual arts. From 1902 to 1905 he studied at the Academy in Berlin artist when history painter Anton von Werner, then at the Artist Academy in Munich with Peter Halm and Henry of reins. Back in Berlin, he used friendship with the painter Lovis Corinth. 1908 and 1911 he took part in the exhibitions of the Berlin Secession.

1914 Kleinschmidt was drafted into the army, but was released from gas poisoning in 1915. In the following years he earned his living primarily as a teacher of drawing and mechanical draftsman. His own artistic work he did not hamper the process so that most printed sheets and illustration series created 1915-1926. 1923 there was a first Kleinschmidt exhibition at the publishing company Euphorion and 1925 with the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin.

1927/28, he went on study trips to Amsterdam and southern France. From 1927 he was in contact with the American art collector Erich Cohn. Well under whose influence Kleinschmidt turned increasingly to painting and put 1933/34, in the U.S.; also he considered himself to some time in New York City.

From 1932 lived Kleinschmidt in Klingenstein at Blaubeuren, then in Ulm and finally in Ay at Send. In the Nazi period his work of so-called degenerate art were assigned and therefore confiscated. Some of the works were shown in the exhibition " Degenerate Art". Because of such persecution emigrated Kleinschmidt the Netherlands in 1936, but it dropped again from 1937 to 1939 in southern France. Returning from there in 1943 forcibly returned to Germany, he lived in Bensheim on the mountain road, but was forbidden to paint. 1945 burned his entire possessions in a bomb attack. He died four years later depleted in Bensheim from a heart condition. Kleinschmidt left more than 300 drawings and 430 oil paintings.

Appreciation

" In the center of Kleinschmidt's work is the portrait of a woman, his art is created socially critical for human remains but always at a respectful distance." ( Buchheim, Expressionists ). In addition to figures, still lifes and landscapes he preferred motifs from the big city life of Berlin, especially the world of theater and vaudeville. Here he rezipierte the art movements from Expressionism to Realism to so-called New Objectivity.

1968 and 1997 took place in Tübingen in 1978 and 2003 in Ulm, 1983 in Stuttgart, 2004 in Würzburg, and in 2009 in Regensburg Kleinschmidt - exhibitions, 2011 in Send.