Arbeit schändet ~ Work Disgraces aka Newspaper Carriers
by Georg Scholz, 1921
Watercolour and black chalk on paper 30,9 cm x 49 cm Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany
Georg Scholz (October 10, 1890 Wolfenbüttel – November 27, 1945 Waldkirch) was a German painter, member of the New Objectivity movement.
Scholz was born in Wolfenbüttel and had his artistic training at the Karlsruhe Academy, where his teachers included Hans Thoma and Wilhelm Trübner. He later studied in Berlin under Lovis Corinth. After military service in World War I lasting from 1915 to 1918, he resumed painting, working in a style fusing cubist and futurist ideas.
With the rise to power of Hitler and the National Socialists in 1933, Scholz was quickly dismissed from his teaching position. Declared a Degenerate Artist, his works were among those seized in 1937 as part of a campaign by the Nazis to "purify" German culture, and he was forbidden to paint in 1939.
In 1945, the French occupation forces appointed Scholz mayor of Waldkirch, but he died that same year, in Waldkirch.