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Lehrter Bahnhof ~ Train Station by Hans Baluschek, 1929 Watercolour and pastel 99 cm x 70 cm Berlinische Galerie, Germany

Hans Baluschek (9 May 1870 Breslau Prussia nowadays Wrocław, Poland– 28 September 1935 Berlin Germany) was a German painter born in Breslau Prussia (nowadays Wrocław Poland), a graphic artist and writer.

Baluschek was a prominent representative of German Critical Realism, and as such he sought to portray the life of the common people with vivid frankness. His paintings centered on the working class of Berlin. He belonged to the Berlin Secession movement, a group of artists interested in modern developments in art. Yet during his lifetime he was most widely known for his fanciful illustrations of the popular children's book Little Peter's Journey to the Moon (German title: Peterchens Mondfahrt).

After the year 1920, Baluschek was an active member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Predictably, after the Nazis came to power in January 1933 they branded Baluschek a "Marxist artist" and classified his work as so-called degenerate art (entartete Kunst). He was dismissed from all his posts and banned from exhibiting.

Hans Baluschek died on 28 September 1935 in Berlin, aged 65, and was buried in the Wilmersdorf Forest Cemetery in Stahnsdorf, south of Berlin near Potsdam.

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Wunderbar Frigeo Germany, c. 1930

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Försterkind, Westerwald ~ Forester’s Child, Westerwald by August Sander, 1931 b&w photograph Gelatin silver print, printed later by Gerd Sander 50 cm x 60 cm Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA

August Sander (17 November 1876 Herdorf– 20 April 1964 Cologne) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book Face of our Time (German: Antlitz der Zeit) was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century". Sander's work includes landscape, nature, architecture, and street photography, but he is best known for his portraits, as exemplified by his series People of the 20th Century. In this series, he aims to show a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic.

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Französisches Ehepaar (Französisches Paar) ~ French Married Couple (French Couple) by Otto Dix, 1925 Gouache, watercolour, pen and India ink on paper 56 cm x 37,5 cm Private collection

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Karl Hermann Haupt, Artists dream, 1926

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Richard Ziegler (3 May 1891 Pforzheim near Calw, Germany - 23 February 1992 Pforzheim near Calw, Germany)

-the artist was born today in history-

Ziegler was an entirely self-taught artist and turned to painting full-time after the First World War at the age of 29. He travelled extensively and his Italian landscapes show an awareness of cubism. In 1925 he settled in Berlin and depicted the Berlin bourgeoisie, prostitutes and showgirls. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Ziegler left Germany. He lived on the island of Korcula in Croatia until 1937 and then moved to England where he worked as a cartoonist and illustrator under the name of Robert Ziller and produced the anti-Nazi book We Make History in 1941.

...and just to make sure because of the somewhat infamous surname Ziegler > Richard Ziegler had absolutely nothing to do with Adolf Ziegler, a nazi painter and one of the organizers of the infamous Degenerate Art exhibition of 1937.

On this painting Die Polizei in the center of the work is the artist Richard Ziegler himself, with a policeman behind him holding a hand on his shoulder. On the left is the artist's cousin Erwin Weber and on the right an unknown woman. The public subjection and disposition of people criminalized through the reigning authorities suggests fascism and how it breeds public judgments. Being paraded in the nude harkens back to Nazism and its barbaric practices. The two featured authorities are the police and a clergyman. They are surrounded by curious passers-by and "petit bourgeois" spectators.

Die Polizei ~ The Police by Richard Ziegler, 1929 Oil on canvas 80,5 cm x 100 cm Private collection

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Luft Hansa "Fliegt in die Bäder" / "Fly to the beaches", 1926 - Hans Vogel (b.1885

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Seiltänzerin ~ Tightrope Walker by George Grosz, 1918 Oil on canvas 42,5 cm x 29,5 cm Private collection

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Spaziergänger im Regen vor Pferdedroschke ~ Pedestrians in the Rain in Front of a Horse-drawn Carriage by Ury Lesser, 1919 Drypoint etching 20,8 cm x 14,8 cm Private collection

Leo Lesser Ury (November 7, 1861 Birnbaum – October 18, 1931 Berlin Weimar Republic) was a German Jewish Impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

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Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (2 December 1891 Untermhaus [Gera] Germany – 25 July 1969 Singen Germany) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.

ohne titel ~ untitled by Otto Dix, 1930 Graphite on paper 40,7 cm x 28 cm Private collection

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