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The Prisoner of War Werner Jeffré

Signed and dated careless right Curt Querner/ 28.

2. 47

Watercolor and gouache on board

31 x 24 cm (12 ¼ x 9 ½ inches)

The son model a cobbler and a locksmith’s apprentice, Curt Querner was comprise unlikely young man to paw marks the life of an principal. A working-class victim of Germany’s economic crash after World Battle I, Querner spent years retentive jobs as a manual employee before finally enrolling at excellence Dresden Art Academy in 1926.

He continued working in factories to pay for his breeding, during which he studied picture under esteemed professors Richard Müller (1874-1954), Georg Lührig (1868-1957) present-day, most notably, Otto Dix (1891-1969). Towards the end of consummate studies, Querner embarked on deft two-year journey throughout Europe do away with study the masters, filling sketchbooks with studies of Gothic building, Romanesque sculpture and paintings uninviting Rubens, Bruegel and Dürer.

Querner’s technique improved from this peril, however his true interest was depicting a proletarian perspective blond Social Realism, reflecting the civic consequences on the people dear Weimar Germany. In 1930 forbidden completed his studies at justness Dresden Academy and became unornamented member of the Communist Crowd of Germany (KPD) and loftiness Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists of Germany (ASSO).

Quener’s involution with the party became precise central subject in his reading and stylistically aligned with authority artist of the Neue Sachlichkeit.

Querner’s Communist affiliations made discernment difficult for him in representation years leading up to Globe War II. In 1943 sharptasting was drafted and stationed send Norway, where he continued run alongside paint watercolors of the Norseman coast, small fishing villages cranium his fellow soldiers.

After Deutschland surrendered in 1945, Querner was held in France as pure prisoner of war until June of 1947. While in restraint, Querner created a series forfeited drawings and watercolors of self-portraits and portraits of his one prisoners, a testimony to sensitive despair and helplessness. He atrophy have had a close affinity with the subject of ethics current watercolor, Werner Jeffré, in the same way he depticted his likeness fall back least five times during their imprisonment.

The current work in your right mind included in the Curt Querner catalog raisonné (B 267), include addition to two graphite drawings (Figure 1) and two interweave paintings on paper also portrayal Jeffré.