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Franz Kaiser (Düren 1888 - Hamburg 1971) - Sell & Buy

German painter and sculptor, one of the most original minds of German modernism. K. began his career in construction, but was already working as an architect before World War I. After his deployment to the front, he worked as an architect for Peter Behrens and others until 1917 and collaborated on several mansions in Berlin. After working as a lecturer in Königsberg, he became a freelance artist in 1920. A short bourgeois existence with wife and son was followed by an anarchic phase in which K. travelled through Germany with the 'inflation saint' Ludwig Christian Haeusser. In 1929 K. founded an art school in Hamburg, working with found objects. He exhibited these under the title 'Hausrat aus Unrat' ('Household effects from rubbish'), which led to purchases for the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. Repression by the National Socialists, which began as early as 1933, forced K. to lead an unsteady and poor life. Since the 1950s, Helmut and Hannelore Schmidt were committed to the artist. K. took inspiration from European and non-European art and created a completely independent oeuvre with inexhaustible creativity and ever new artistic techniques. Lit.: Der Neue Rump; M. Bruhns: Kaiser ohne Thron, Ausst.-Broschüre 2018.

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Franz Kaiser (Düren 1888 - Hamburg 1971)

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Catalog: 26 February 2022 Art Auction: Northgerman Art - Collection Horst Janssen - Collection F. C. Gundlac (02/2022)