Arthur Kaufmann (artist)
Arthur Kaufmann (* July 7, 1888 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, † September 25, 1971 in Nova Friburgo, Brazil ) was a German Expressionist painter.
Life
After attending school in Mülheim an der Ruhr went Arthur Kaufmann 1904 to 1906 at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art and studied painting with Peter Janssen. In subsequent years, he held on to further study purposes abroad, including in France, England and Italy. From 1913 he attended as a pupil of Le Fauconnier in Paris at the Académie Julian.
1919 returned Kaufmann back to Dusseldorf. Together with Herbert owls Berg and Adolf Uzarski he founded the artist group The Young Rhineland. With the First International Art Exhibition in 1922 they made attracted attention and caused a sensation.
In 1929 a merchant, the Municipal School of Decorative Arts in Dusseldorf and took over the management of this facility.
After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Kaufmann was dismissed on racial grounds. He then went into exile in 1933, first to The Hague in 1936 and emigrated from there to the United States. His living he earned as a portrait painter. In New York he began in 1938 to work on the triptych The Mental emigration ( completed in 1964 ), was to make him famous. Among the 38 writers were known exiles such as Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, whose children Klaus and Erika Mann, Martin Buber, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, George Grosz and Jankel Adler.
After the Second World War - in 1953 - he returned regularly to Germany to accompany exhibitions of his works (mostly to his old haunts Dusseldorf and Mülheim an der Ruhr). After the death of his wife in 1968, merchant went to his daughter after Friburgo, Brazil. There he died immediately after a visit to Germany in 1971.