Curt Querner

 

Self-portrait 1930

Curt Querner (1904-1976) worked in a factory before enroling in Dresden Art Academy, where he had Otto Dix as his teacher. His art fell into the category of the Neue Sachlichkeit, or "New Objectivity". But whereas painters in that school like Arno Henscher or Christian Schad were not overtly political, Querner’s work (he joined the German Communist Party in 1930) represented social and political realities in a more direct way.

In February, 1945, the air raids on Dresden destroyed Querner's studio and with it a large portion of his works.

 

 

Demonstration, 1930. Querner is the man to the right

1933. A self-portrait?