12 Facts About Georg Schrimpf

Georg Schrimpf was a German painter and graphic artist.

Georg Schrimpf was listed as a producer of Degenerate Art by the German National Socialist government in the 1930s.

Georg Schrimpf was born in Munich, his father having died before Georg Schrimpf's birth.

From 1905 to 1914 Georg Schrimpf wandered through Belgium, France, Switzerland and Northern Italy, working as a waiter, baker, and coal shuffler.

Georg Schrimpf published works, in such the Munich expressionist magazines as Der Weg, Die Bucherkiste and Die Sichel.

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In 1925 Georg Schrimpf participated in the Neue Sachlichkeit exhibition at the Mannheim Kunsthalle.

Georg Schrimpf's work was seen as an acceptable form of German Romanticism by the authorities.

Georg Schrimpf became professor at the Royal School of Art in Berlin in 1933, but was fired in 1937 because of his “red past”.

Georg Schrimpf had been a short-time member of Rote Hilfe, a socialist organization.

Georg Schrimpf drew obsessively from childhood obsessed, both from his own imagination and by copying images that particularly pleased him.

Georg Schrimpf sent some of his work to the Berlin publication "Aktion" and was surprised that they were immediately accepted.

Georg Schrimpf's paintings are characterised by a fixed composition, reduced and clear volumes, and Cubist simplification.