Kurt Scheele
1905 Frankfurt/Main - 1944 Smolensk - Portrait of a young woman - Oil/canvas. 92 x 73 cm. On the reverse with the estate stamp. Next to it with remains of a label. There numbered: Ö 1. Rest. (Restoration report available). - Lit.: Vollmer 4, p. 178. The painter and graphic artist studied from 1922 with Albert Windisch at the Fachschule für Buchgewerbe and with the commercial draftsman Rudolf Koch in Offenbach. From 1924, he was taught drawing at the Frankfurter Kunstschule by the Expressionist Franz Karl Delavilla. Membership in the artist group "Der Keil" began with his move to Berlin in 1927. In the following years, he undertook study trips within Europe. In 1927/28, he participated in painting courses by Martin Bloch and Anton Kerschbaumer. During this time, he also took up woodcutting, a technique that occupied most of his creative work. In painting, he moved away from Expressionism in the following years and turned to abstract painting. Consequently, his works were classified as "degenerate" during the Nazi era, and he was banned from exhibiting from 1939.