Conrad Felixmüller

Beginning in the mid 1920s, the artist turned to a pictorial idiom based on the New Objectivity, and he primarily created portraits, scenes from his family life, still lifes and landscapes. After the Nazis seized power, the artist moved to Berlin in the hope of being able to work with greater freedom there; however, his art was denounced as “degenerate”. In 1941 he left his home in Berlin and, in 1944, he and his family moved to the Saxon village of Tautenhain. In 1944/45, shortly before the war’s end, he was conscripted into the military and was briefly a prisoner of war. From 1949 to 1962, Felixmüller taught at the university in Halle and, in 1961, he moved back to Berlin.