Kurt Weinhold, another neo-objectivist from the Weimar era

Kurt Weinhold, 1930

Born in Berlin in 1896, Kurt Weinhold didn’t attend any art school. His own father – a painter – who was his art teacher. In 1922 he moved to Calw (in Baden-Würtemberg) with his wife. Calw was also the home town of two other painters: Rudolf Schlichter and Richard Ziegler (he was born in Pforzheim, near Calw).

Close related to Otto Dix, George Grosz and Rudolf Schlichter, he belonged to the New Objectivity movement and exposed throughout Germany with them. The Nazis classed him as a "degenerate artist" without, however, forbidding him to paint.

During that terrible period, in order to feed his family, he did a variety of portraits, mostly of fellow Calw citizens.

Kurt Weinhold died in 1965 in Calw, his adopted home town.

Mann mit Radio, 1929

About the picture above, see here: Radio painters

1929

"The materialist" 1931

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The town of Calw