Georg Tappert
Georg Tappert (20 October 1880, in Berlin – 16 November 1957, in Berlin) was a German expressionist painter. Tappert underwent an apprenticeship as a tailor, before gaining employment at various tailoring businesses for two years. However he attracted the attention of Max Liebermann, who gave him a letter of introduction to Ludwig Schmid-Reutte a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe.
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Georg Tappert
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- Born
- 1880 · Berlin.
- Died
- 1957 · Berlin.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · photographer · graphic artist · university teacher
- Fields
- painting · graphics · art craft · photography
- Movements
- Expressionism
- Honours
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Languages
- German
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Georg Tappert (20 October 1880, in Berlin – 16 November 1957, in Berlin) was a German expressionist painter. Tappert underwent an apprenticeship as a tailor, before gaining employment at various tailoring businesses for two years. However he attracted the attention of Max Liebermann, who gave him a letter of introduction to Ludwig Schmid-Reutte a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe.
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He studied there from 1901 to 1906, whereupon he joined the Worpswede artists’ colony until 1909. He was one of the founders of the New Secession which was formed in 1910 following 27 expressionist artworks being excluded from an exhibition organised by the Berlin Secession.
The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting, graphics and art craft. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin. Work by Georg Tappert is recorded in the collections of Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Modern Art, Berlinische Galerie and Hungarian National Gallery. Distinctions recorded are Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Georg Tappert: Porträt Karl Jakob Hirsch, 1917
Georg Tappert · Karl Jakob Hirsch: Quintessenz meines Lebens. v. Hase und Koehler, Mainz 1990
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1880
Georg Tappert born at Berlin.
1957
Georg Tappert died at Berlin.
1980
Georg Tappert, 1880-1957 is dated 1980.
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- 1.vgl. Morgner Wilhelm: Briefe und Zeichnungen Briefe an Georg Tappert, an die Mutter und an Wilhelm Wulff, Hrsg. und mit einer Einleitung von Christine Knupp-Uhlenhaut, Mocker & Jahn, Soest, 1984
- 2.vgl. Thomas Drebusch: Wilhelm Morgner. Ein Sonderfall der Aktion „Entartete Kunst“. Soest 2016, S. 9.
- 3.(abgerufen am 17. April 2016)
- 4.Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexikon Berliner Begräbnisstätten. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1, S. 589.
- 5.Swantje Kuhfuss-Wickenheiser: Die Reimann-Schule in Berlin und London 1902–1943. Ein jüdisches Unternehmen zur Kunst- und Designausbildung internationaler Prägung bis zur Vernichtung durch das Hitlerregime. Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-475-2, S. 288–290.
- 6.Datenbank zum Beschlagnahmeinventar der Aktion "Entartete Kunst", Forschungsstelle "Entartete Kunst", FU Berlin
- 7.Antje Kalcher, Dietmar Schenk. Vor der UdK. 2024.
- 8.Werkschau mit Dokumenten aus seinem schriftlichen Nachlass.
- 9.Georg Tappert und Ernst Straßner.
- 10.Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Hrsg.): Kunst des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts in deutschen Ausstellungen. Teil 1. Ausstellungen deutscher Gegenwartskunst in der NS-Zeit. VDG, Weimar, 2000
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