Rudolf Schlichter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German artist
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Place of Birth: Calw, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Rudolf Schlichter
- Rudolf Schlichter (or Rudolph Schlichter) (December 6, 1890 – May 3, 1955) was a German artist and one of the most important representatives of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement. Schlichter was born in Calw, Württemberg.
- After an apprenticeship as an enamel painter at a Pforzheim factory he attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Stuttgart.
- He subsequently studied under Hans Thoma and Wilhelm Trübner at the Academy in Karlsruhe.
- Called for military service in World War I, he carried out a hunger strike to secure early release, and in 1919 he moved to Berlin where he joined the Communist Party of Germany and the "November" group.
- He took part in a Dada fair in 1920 and also worked as an illustrator for several periodicals.
- A major work from this period is his Dada Roof Studio, a watercolor showing an assortment of figures on an urban rooftop.
- Around a table sit a woman and two men in top hats.
- One of the men has a prosthetic hand and the other, also missing a hand, appears on closer scrutiny to be mannequin.
- Two other figures in gas masks may also be mannequins.
- A child holds a pail and a woman wearing high button shoes (for which Schlichter displayed a marked fetish) stands on a pedestal, gesturing inexplicably. In 1925 Schlichter participated in the "Neue Sachlichkeit" exhibit at the Mannheim Kunsthalle.
- His work from this period is realistic, a good example being the Portrait of Margot (1924) now in the Berlin Märkisches Museum.
- It depicts a prostitute who often modeled for Schlichter, standing on a deserted street and holding a cigarette.
- When Adolf Hitler took power, bringing to an end the Weimar period, his activities were greatly curtailed.
- In 1935 he returned to Stuttgart, and four years later to Munich.
- In 1937 his works were seized as degenerate art, and in 1939 the Nazi authorities banned him from exhibiting.
- His studio was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1942. At the war's end, Schlichter resumed exhibiting works.
- His works from this period were surrealistic in character.
- He died in Munich in 1955.
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