Paul Kleinschmidt, (1883–1949) was a German painter.
Kleinschmidt was born in Bublitz, Pomerania, German Empire (modern Bobolice, Poland).
As a student of art at the Berlin Akademie Kleinschmidt’s greatest upset was Anton von Werner, who was at the era Kleinschmidt’s history art teacher.
During his grow old as a student Kleinschmidt met Lovis Corinth who became an informative and strongly studious individual for the youthful student. Kleinschmidt continued his studies in 1904 below Peter Halm’s direction, as competently as Heirnrich von Zügel at the Akademie in Munich. It was in Munich that he hypothetical the techniques of lithography and engraving.
Eventually finding his way to Berlin to produce a result as a painter and graphic artist, Kleinschmidt exhibited at the modest ‘Sezession’ shows in 1908 and 1911.
In 1915, Kleinschmidt began teaching drawing though also taking the role of a profound draughtsman, during which period a good majority of his most remarkable lithographs and engravings were created. Offering these pieces in his first solo exhibition, organized by the Euphorion publishing company in 1923, Kleinschmidt’s be in would next look light in 1925 at Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin, thereafter graduating to a painting oriented focus.
Kleinschmidt was first introduced to a New York City art stasher by the publicize of Erich Cohn in 1927. A man who complex became his sponsor. Kleinschmidt made several quick moves from Berlin throughout Southern Germany in 1932 ending stirring in Ulm and within a year’s time, Ay near Senden. Shortly thereafter, he and his family found a good struggle accompanied by a diplomatic repression. Finally finding a passageway of emigration to the Netherlands in 1936, Kleinschmidt relieved himself and associates of such diplomatic angst, from there to France in 1938. He was taken prisoner in February 1940 throughout several camps for a brusque span but released again post-French capitulation.
Kleinschmidt was goaded to End painting in 1943 under direction of the Nazis during his perfect years in Bensheim. In 1945, the entirety of his possessions were drifting to an freshen raid. Kleinschmidt died on August 2, 1949 as repercussion of a coarse angina pectoris diagnosed in 1940.
A number of his works include: Berghang am See; Titelblatt der Ausstellung Grafik E.L. Kirchner, Galerie Schames; Kuh mit Frauen; Rosen and Seehaus.
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