Weimar Berlin: Not only Grosz and Dix.

When thinking of painters from the Weimar period, one usually thinks Grosz, Dix, Macke. But there were myriads of important artists in that period, in Berlin but also in other German cities.

Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (1894–1970) was one of them. His artistic development ? The usual for his contemporaries. He started as an Expressionist, became later a New Objectivist (Neue Sachlichkeit).

He was born in Aachen. Mostly self-taught as a painter, he began as a sculptor, studying briefly at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. At this early stage his paintings were influenced by the expressionists, especially August Macke. Living in Berlin for some years, he befriended George Grosz and John Heartfield. Like them, he became a member of the « Novembergruppe ». He took part in the New Objectivity exhibition in Mannheim 1925, with Grosz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann.

Davringhausen went into exile with the fall of the Weimar republic in 1933. He died in Nice, France.