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Biography: Paul Citroen
Citroen was a painter, photographer, writer and teacher. His father, who came from Amsterdam, owned a fur shop in Berlin. lemon described the environment in which he grew up as bourgeois. In the family, much attention was paid to art and culture, especially literature. Citroen started to draw a lot early in his life. This was encouraged by his parents. Citroen studied at the Kunsthochschule in Berlin. After working in a bookshop for some time, Citroen was approached by Herwart Walden, owner of the famous Der Sturm gallery, to set up an art bookshop. Here he also met the leaders of the Berlin Dada movement, including George Grosz, Walter Mehring and John Heartfield. He trained at the Bauhaus in Weimar when he was 24 years old and was taught by Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Johannes Itten, among others. The latter in particular had a profound and lasting influence on him. During this time, Citroen made his first photo collages, of which Metropolis, specially made for a Bauhaus exhibition, from 1923, became the most famous. After a short stay in Switzerland and Paris, Citroen settled in Amsterdam in 1927, where he had his first photo exhibition. During a short period of his life, from 1929 to 1935, he was intensively involved in photography. Citroen's photos are characterized by a loose, casual style. Influences from his Bauhaus years and collaboration with Blumenfeld are unmistakably present. Citroen paid little attention to the usual photographic rules. He regularly cut out his negatives and was not afraid of blur. In photography, however, he missed the physical relationship with the material that he felt when he painted or drew. Together with the painter Charles Roelofsz, he founded the New Art School, oriented towards the Bauhaus, in 1933, which eventually had to close in 1937 due to a lack of money. From 1937 to 1960, with an interruption during the war years, Citroen taught at the art academy in The Hague. He has made a major contribution to innovation in drawing education. In his drawings and paintings, which were created in the Netherlands, little influence from the Bauhaus period can be found. Despite all the landscapes and still lifes he made in his visual work, paul citroen is above all a portraitist. He left approximately 7000 portraits, photographed, painted and, above all, drawn.
Condition
Condition
Good
few visible irregularities.
Shipment
Pick up
The work can be picked up on location. As a buyer you must bring your own packaging materials. The location is: Purmerend, The Netherlands
Shipment
Parcel post
Price
Up to 2 kg.
Within The Netherlands
€7.00
To Belgium
€15.00
To Germany
€15.00
Within EU
€17.50
Worldwide
€20.00
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