Cesar Klein

César Klein ( born September 14, 1876 in Hamburg, † March 13, 1954 in Pansdorf ( Ostholstein ) ) was a German painter, printmaker and stage designer.

Life

After a painting apprenticeship César Klein visited in 1894, the Hamburg School of Applied Arts, the Düsseldorf Academy and the educational establishment of the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin. Initially he was influenced by Impressionism and then turned to Expressionism. Klein was a co-founder in 1910 of the New Secession in Berlin. He used in the decoration of the marble house cinemas in Berlin in 1913 for the first time an expressionistic design in arts and crafts. In 1918 he was one of the founders of the November Group, 1919, he was elected to the board of the Deutscher Werkbund. From 1919 to 1937 he taught at the educational establishment of the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin.

In the early 1920s he created expressionistic Filmszenografien for Genuine (1920 ) and The Dollmaker Niang -King ( 1923) by Robert Wiene and in Austria for Sodom and Gomorrah by Mihály Kertész.

After the " seizure of power" of the Nazis Klein was on leave from his teaching and was forbidden to paint; In 1937 his works were blamed on the Nazi exhibition of "Degenerate Art " and 13 of his works were confiscated. 1935 to 1945 he lived in retirement in the country.

According to him, a street was named in the built in the 1960s and 1970s, new estate Hamburg Steilshoop.

The César Klein school, community school of the community Ratekau with Gymnasium upper in Ratekau, was named after him.

Works

Movies

Aftereffect

The East Holstein Museum in Eutin shows 2014 Klein works in the exhibition " César Klein - life and art."