1. Georg Muche was a German painter, printmaker, architect, author, and teacher.
20 Facts About Georg Muche
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Georg Muche was born on 8 May 1895 in Querfurt, in the Prussian Province of Saxony, and grew up in the Rhon area.
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Georg Muche's father, Felix Muche, was a naive painter and art collector who was known as Felix Ramholz.
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In Berlin, Georg Muche became associated with Herwarth Walden and his Sturm artist group, working as Walden's exhibition assistant at the Sturm Gallery.
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Georg Muche taught painting at the Sturm Art School from 1916 to 1920.
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Georg Muche participated in three exhibitions from 1916 to 1918, each of which paired his work with that another artists: Max Ernst, Paul Klee, and Alexander Archipenko.
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From 1913 to 1923, Georg Muche produced prints which showed a strong influence by Klee, as well as Marc Chagall.
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Herwarth Walden had given him a five-year contract with Sturm in 1917, but Georg Muche dissolved it prematurely to gain some independence for his Bauhaus work.
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Georg Muche married Elsa Franke, who was a Bauhaus student, in 1922.
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Georg Muche was in charge of the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition, their first major exhibition, for which he designed an experimental house known as "Haus am Horn".
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Georg Muche was the leading proponent of the Bauhaus architectural group.
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Georg Muche left the Bauhaus in 1927 to join the faculty of Johannes Itten's Modern Art School of Berlin, where he taught until 1930.
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For 1929's 10 Years of the November Group Exhibition, Georg Muche oversaw the abstract and constructive design and architecture departments.
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Georg Muche then resumed teaching in Berlin, at the School for Art and Work, under the directorship of Hugo Haring.
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Georg Muche exhibited his own frescoes at a Berlin gallery.
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From 1939 to 1958 Georg Muche was on the faculty of the School for Textile Engineers in Krefeld, holding the position of artist director of the Master Class for Textile Art.
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Georg Muche worked in Wuppertal at an institute developing painting materials.
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Georg Muche settled in Lindau, on the eastern side of Lake Constance, in 1960.
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Fur Wilhelm Runge, a painting by Georg Muche, was featured on a 1996 German postage stamp as part of a series of stamps honoring German painting of the 20th century.
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Georg Muche's work is in the collections of many museums, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Harvard Art Museums, Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Neue Nationalgalerie, and Kunstmuseum Bonn.