Bruno Voigt, in the footsteps of Grosz

Bruno Voigt (born 1912 in Gotha, † 1988 in Berlin) was a painter and graphic designer. His father was a pacifist and wrote for the social-democratic press.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar. In 1932 Voigt started working for Bavaria-Verlag, a publishing house in Munich.
In his biography he recalled that he would every evening draw the guests of cafés and pubs, hidden under the table. His drawings and paintings of the late 1920s, ferociously social critical, seem influenced by the much older George Grosz.
But the arrival of the Nazis to power put an end to his career, as he was labeled, like many others, a "degenerate artist".
He survived the Second World War. As a prisoner in France, he was forced to clear land mines there, a dangerous work which he survived as well.
In 1951, he was named director of the State Museums in Gotha and three years later he became director of the East Asian Collection of the National Museums in Berlin.