Georg Schrimpf, another neo-objectivist

  

Georg Schrimpf (1889-1938) was a German painter and graphic artist. He is considered as an important representant of the New Objectivity movement, along with Otto Dix and others. His works were exposed in the famous Mannheim exhibition of 1925, which was something of a consecration of that school. 

Already In 1916 the art expert and gallery owner Herwarth Walden had successfully exhibited Schrimpf's first oil paintings in his famous Berlin gallery Der Sturm.

From 1905 to 1914 Schrimpf wandered through Europe, working as a waiter, baker, and coal shuffler. In 1913 he lived in Monte Veritá, an anarchist colony in Switzerland.

Unlike other artists of the avant-garde, Schrimpf was initially not persecuted by the Nazis. Eventuallyt though, his "red" past attracted their attention and he was finally labeled "degenerate artist" and expelled from his professor post in Berlin-Schöneberg. The year before his death, he was defamed again in the Nazi exhibition “Degenerate Art”.