Curt Lahs

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Curt Lahs (1893 Düsseldorf -1958 Berlin) was a German painter

Timeline

1919 Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf

1921 Member of the group The Young Rheinländers Exhibition at the home of Mutter Ey

1928 Teaches at the Volkskunstschule, Düsseldorf

1930 Director of the Academia de pintura y esculera, Instituto de Bellas Artes, Medellín, Colombia.

1931 Returns to the Volkskunstschule, Düsseldorf.

1933 Dismissed from his teaching post by the Nazis, Branded a "Degenerate Artist."

1933-43 Travels to and exhibits in France, Jugoslavia and Italy.

1943 Unwillingly drafted into the German Army.

1943 Captured by American Troops, Incarcerated. Loses most of the early work when the home in which paintings are stored is burned in a bombing.

1944 Released from prisoner of war camp.

1945 Continues to work as an independent artist. Exhibits at Galerie Gerd Rosen and Galerie Brenner, Berlin.

1947 Gains post at University in Halle, Germany.

1948 Begins a second position at the Hochschule fur Bildende Künste, Berlin, travels between jobs by train.

1949 Leaves post at Halle after warnings from colleagues regarding new Communist government threat to him. He is also considered a degenerate artist by the communists.

1952 "Stahl und Eisen" Prize for painting, Düsseldorf, Germany.

1954 Kunspreis from the City of Berlin.

1958 June 11 - Dies in his sleep of heart failure.

Bibliography

Galerie Flechtheim. Das Junge Rheinland. Düsseldorf: Galerie Flechtheim, 1919

Galerie Gerd Rosen. Almanach 1947. Berlin: Galerie Gerd Rosen, 1947.

Galerie Gerd Rosen. exhibition catalogue. Berlin: Galerie Gerd Rosen, 1947. (with Juro Kubicek, Hannah Hoch, and others).

Max Niehaus. Sardinien, Ein Reisebuch. With Illustrations by Curt Lahs. Frankfurt: Societät, 1938

Stadtmuseum in der Moritzburg, Halle. Kunstaustellung 1947, Sachsen Anhalt. Malerei/Plastik/Graphik, Halle, 1947

Berliner Neue Gruppe, Berlin, 1950

Hochschule für Bildende Künste. Deutscher Künsterbund, Erste Ausstellung, Berlin, 1951

Various Authors. Schri Kunst Schri 3, Ein Almanach Alter und Neuer Kunst, Baden Baden: Woldemar Klein, 1955.

Curt Lahs. Freundliche Zeichen. With an introduction by Franz Roh. Silberne Quell Band 49, Baden Baden, Woldemar Klein, 1960.

Ulrich Krempel. Am Anfang: Das Junge Rheinland. Zur Kunst und Zeitgeschichte einer Region 1918 – 1945. Klaasen Verlag, 1985.

Christine Fischer-Defoy. Kunst. Macht. Politik. .Die Nazifizierung der Kunst und Musik Schulen in Berlin. Berlin: Elefanten Press, 1988.

Galerie Stolz. Schöne Tage im Hause Dexel: Das Gästebuch. (Fine Days at the Dexel’s: The Guest Book), Cologne: Galerie Stolz, 1990.

Curt Lahs, Ari Lahs, Angela Lahs-Gonzales. Curt Lahs : Kubistische Figuration - Konstruktion - Mikrokosmologische Abstraktion. Galerie Bernd Dürr GmbH. Berghild, Pollmann, Bernd Dürr, 1992.

Markus Krause. Galerie Gerd Rosen: Die Avantgarden in Berlin 1945-1950. Berlin: Ars Nikolai, 1995.

Dorit Litt and Matthias Rataiczyk. Verfemte Formalisten: Kunst aus Halle (Saale) 1945 – 1963. Halle (Saale) Kunstverein “talstrasse” e.V., 1998