10 Facts About Karl Hubbuch

Karl Hubbuch was a German painter, printmaker, and draftsman associated with the New Objectivity.

Karl Hubbuch continued his studies with Emil Orlik at the Berlin Museum of Arts and Crafts School until the First World War.

Karl Hubbuch spent the period after the war recuperating before resuming his studies in a master class at the Karlsruhe Academy.

In 1924, Hubbuch was given a position as an assistant lithography instructor at the Karlsruhe Academy.

Karl Hubbuch became the head of the drawing department the following year, and in 1928 he was appointed professor.

Karl Hubbuch's likeness is recognizable in many of Hubbuch's works of the 1920s, such as Zweimal Hilde, painted in 1923.

Karl Hubbuch published collections of satirical drawings, and in 1930 he collaborated with Erwin Spuler and Anton Weber in publishing the critical and satirical magazine "Zakpo".

Karl Hubbuch worked in relative obscurity during this later period, painting and drawing in a style close to expressionism.

Karl Hubbuch died in 1979 in Karlsruhe, where approximately 100 of his works are now housed in Gochsheim Castle.

In 1985 Ellen Hubbuch donated about 100 pieces of his work to the municipality of Kraichtal, shown in Gochsheim Castle, since Karl Hubbuch's parents originated from Neuenburg, a locality of Kraichtal.