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Hans Baluschek

Hans Baluschek (1871 - 1935) was a German painter, graphic artist and writer. He belonged to the Berliner Secession, was a member of the Deutschen Künstlerbund and member of  Verband Deutscher Illustratorethe. After 1920 he was an active member of the SPD (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands).  From 1929 until the beginning of 1933 he was manager of Großen Berliner Kunstausstellung. Baluschek was one of the most important representatives of German critical realism, and in his art was critical of the life and conditions of the proletariat in modern society.  His pictures mainly had people from the working class in Berlin as motif and theme. He became known primarily for his paintings, book illustrations and his contributions to various periodicals of the Weimar Republic. Predictably, after the Nazis came to power in January 1933, they branded Baluschek a "Marxist artist" and classified his work as so-called "entartete Kunst".  He was dismissed from all his posts and banned from exhibiting. He died 1935 in Berlin, aged 65. Hans Baluschek is not among the most well-known artists of the Berlin Secession. In postwar West Germany he received comparatively little attention, while in East Germany he was lionized for his left-leaning themes, and his works frequently were reproduced as illustrations in various publications. Exhibits of his works were staged on anniversaries of his death, notably in the Märkisches Museum in East Berlin.

October 31st 2024

 

 
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