Biography
Born in Dresden in 1897, Conrad Felixmüller took local classes in drawing and painting before finding work as a freelance artist in 1915. Having contributed graphic work to Der Sturm, he founded the art journal MENSCHEN in 1917, as well as exhibiting in Munich and Dresden with contemporaries such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. In 1918 he helped to found the Dresden Secession and joined Die Novembergruppe (The November Group), as well as publishing several literary texts. He was heavily influenced by Expressionism, which he interpreted in a socio-critical way to develop his own unique brand of Realism. His Communist leanings and Modernist style meant that his work was purged from German museums under the Nazi regime, and in 1944 he was conscripted. He survived the war, and went on to teach at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, as well as exhibiting throughout Europe until his death in 1977.
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