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CATEGORY: BOOKS

Full magazine inside. Great graphic design cover. Like the magazine Wendingen, but even more rare.


Creator:
Rudolf Wilhelm Walther Großmann (Rudolf Grossmann) (1882-1941)

Object:
Magazine 'De Reclame. Orgaan voor reclame en reclamekunst'. Derde jaargang, nummer 49, december 1932. Metal frame with museum glass.

Country:
The Netherlands

Design period:
1932

Production period:
1932

Identifying marks:
Name and date on recto, below right.

Style:
Art nouveau, Art deco

Condition:
In very good condition.

Material:
Printed paper

Colour:
Black, blue, red

Dimensions:
L 21.5 x W 29.0 x H 1.5 cm


Biography
Rudolf Großmann grew up in an artistic environment. His grandfather was the Baden court painter Wilhelm Dürr the Elder, his mother was a portrait painter and his uncle Wilhelm Dürr the Younger was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He first studied medicine and philosophy in Munich from 1902 to 1904 and then went to Paris for five years, as a student of Lucien Simon, among others. There, under the influence of Paul Cézanne, he initially devoted himself to landscape painting and spent a lot of time in the Café du Dôme, which he deals with in his autobiography “Manege des Lebens”.

He travelled to Belgium and Holland with Jules Pascin. Further study trips took him to northern and southern France and to Vienna, Budapest and Stockholm. In 1910 he stayed in Berlin for a while and then travelled further – partly with his friend Hans Purrmann – to the Engadine, to Munich, to Lake Tegernsee and to Italy.

After his return to Germany, Großmann lived in Berlin and worked as a graphic artist, including book illustrations and portraits of celebrities, the latter of which appeared in Simplicissimus, among others. In 1928 he became a professor at the Berlin Art Academy. Großmann was a member of the Berlin Secession and the German Artists' Association.

After the Nazis seized power, he was removed from his position as professor in 1934 and retired to Freiburg. Großmann's works were defamed by the Nazis as "degenerate". In 1937, more than 500 of his works were confiscated from a number of museums and public collections in the "Degenerate Art" campaign. Some of them were destroyed. Three of his works were shown in the Nazi propaganda exhibition Degenerate Art.

Museums and public collections
New department of the National Gallery Berlin in the Kronprinzenpalais, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Kunsthalle Bremen, Silesian Museum of Fine Arts Breslau, Kunsthütte Chemnitz, Municipal Art Collection Chemnitz, Anhaltinische Gemäldegalerie Dessau, Municipal Art and Trade Museum Dortmund, Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Dresden, Art Collection of the City of Düsseldorf, Museum for Art and Local History Erfurt, Museum Folkwang Essen, Städel Art Institute Frankfurt/Main, Municipal Art Collection Freiburg im Breisgau, Municipal Art Collection Gelsenkirchen, German Graphic Exhibition Görlitz, Art Collections of the University of Göttingen, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Provinzialmuseum Hannover, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne, Art Collection of the City of Königsberg, Staatliches Meisteratelier Königsberg, Kaiser Wilhelm-Museum Krefeld, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Museum Behnhaus Lübeck, Kaiser Friedrich Museum Magdeburg, Municipal Museum Mainz, Municipal Art Gallery Mannheim, State Graphic Collection Munich, Bavarian State Painting Collection Munich, Municipal Gallery Nuremberg, Museum of Art and Decorative Arts Stettin, Württemberg State Gallery Stuttgart, Ulm City Museum, Weimar Castle Museum, Nassau State Museum Wiesbaden and Municipal Picture Gallery Wuppertal-Elberfeld.
RUDOLF GROSSMANN
(1882-1941)
De Reclame
Magazine, 1932
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€ 180,00