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The German painter Oswald Poetzelberger was a son of the artist Robert Poetzelberger and a nephew of Leo Putz. He studied in Stuttgart with Christian Landenberger and, after taking part in the First World War, worked mainly as a book illustrator. He illustrated, among other things, Fairy tales by Manfred Kyber. In Munich, Poetzelberger joined the Munich Artists' Cooperative. His paintings from the Munich period are of the New Objectivity. They were said to have “symbolistic expression” and the “loneliness of the spiritual human being against the background of the current of time” was named as the main theme of his pictures. He took part in the Venice Biennale and the “Munich Art” exhibition before being rejected for the Great German Art Exhibition in 1940 as “too modern”. Nevertheless, he occasionally received commissions such as designing the murals in the Cheresy barracks in Konstanz. His house and studio in Munich were destroyed during the Second World War. Poetzelberge is one of the representatives of the “lost generation”.
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