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MAX KAUS* (Berlin 1891 - 1977 Berlin)

Lighthouse, 1982
woodcut/paper 18,4 x 19 cm
rubber-stamp Max Kraus, rubber-stamp Handabzug der Edition Graphischer Zirkel, numbered and dated 11/12 1982

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Max Kaus was a German painter and graphic artist, university professor and deputy director at the Berlin University of Fine Arts (HfbK) (since 1975 Berlin University of the Arts Faculty 1). Kaus studied from 1908 to 1913 at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (UAKGM) and in 1913 and 1914 at the Berlin Academy of Arts (AdK), as a painter with Erich Heckel and as a graphic artist with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Since 1926 he was a teacher at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Arts and Crafts School, and from 1937 to 1939 he was a teacher at the United State Schools (VS). In 1937, as part of the “Degenerate Art” campaign, a significant number of his works were confiscated from German museums and public collections. However, Kaus was able to remain a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts. There is certain evidence of his participation in 32 exhibitions during the National Socialist era. On July 15, 1945, he was appointed professor and deputy director at the Berlin University of Fine Arts (HfbK) under Karl Hofer. In 1959 Kaus retired. Kaus was a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists in Germany and, from 1928, of the German Artists' Association and remained so until its forced dissolution in 1936. Kaus took part in the last annual exhibition of the German Artists' Association at the Hamburg Art Association with the portrait “Woman in the Mirror” (tempera on canvas). From 1951 to 1971 he was a board member of the re-established German Artists' Association, and from 1956 to 1963 he was its deputy chairman. Max Kaus received the Günter Wagner Prize from the Hanover Art Association in 1928 and the Berlin Art Prize in 1963. His written legacy has been in the German Art Archive in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg since 1987. Further artists and styles: Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Expressionism, Secession, landscape painting, still life, portrait
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