Johannes Molzahn

 

1921

Johannes Molzahn (1892-1965)learned drawing and photography, but later concentrated on painting. 1908-1914 he stayed in Switzerland. Molzahn became acquainted with Herwarth Walden, Walter Gropius, Theo van Doesburg and El Lissitzky. He was a member of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst. After World War I he worked as a graphic designer and through intervention of Bruno Taut became a teacher in Magdeburg. He was forbidden to work by the Nazis in 1933, Eight of his works were shown in the exhibition of entartete Kunst in 1937. He emigrated to the United States in 1938 and returned to Germany 1959, settling in Munich.

 

Abstract figures - 1918

Dedicated to Karl Liebknecht - 1919

Family scene - 1925