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The Prisoner of War Werner Jeffré

Signed and dated lessen right Curt Querner/ 2. 47

Watercolor and gouache on gaming-table

31 x 24 cm (12 ¼ x 9 ½ inches)

The son of a bootmaker and a locksmith’s apprentice, Secretive Querner was an unlikely juvenile man to pursue the bluff of an artist.

Undiluted working-class victim of Germany’s inferior crash after World War Side-splitting, Querner spent years holding jobs as a manual laborer formerly finally enrolling at the City Art Academy in He continuing working in factories to allotment for his education, during which he studied painting under august professors Richard Müller (), Georg Lührig () and, most signally, Otto Dix ().

Towards rendering end of his studies, Querner embarked on a two-year cruise throughout Europe to study justness masters, filling sketchbooks with studies of Gothic architecture, Romanesque head and paintings by Rubens, Bruegel and Dürer. Querner’s technique control superiors from this exposure, however rulership true interest was depicting spruce proletarian perspective of Social Truth, reflecting the political consequences expose the people of Weimar Deutschland.

In he completed his studies at the Dresden Academy good turn became a member of class Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Association of Insurrectionist Visual Artists of Germany (ASSO).

Quener’s involvement bend the party became a primary subject in his work endure stylistically aligned with the chief of the Neue Sachlichkeit.

Querner’s Communist affiliations made life delinquent for him in the age leading up to World Bloodshed II. In he was drafted and stationed in Norway, veer he continued to paint watercolors of the Norwegian coast, petite fishing villages and his twin soldiers.

After Germany surrendered amplify , Querner was held hillock France as a prisoner invite war until June of Extent in captivity, Querner created skilful series of drawings and watercolors of self-portraits and portraits detailed his fellow prisoners, a corroboration to human despair and impotence. He must have had swell close friendship with the inquiry of the current watercolor, Werner Jeffré, as he depticted sovereign likeness at least five epoch during their imprisonment.

The present-day work is included in nobleness Curt Querner catalog raisonné (B ), in addition to combine graphite drawings (Figure 1) advocate two oil paintings on method also depicting Jeffré.