Franz Hubert Josef Urbach

Germany
Germany
Games Participations1
First Olympic GamesBerlin 1936
Year of Birth1889

Biography

German painter Josef Urbauch studied at the School of Applied Arts in Düsseldorf. After a stay in Paris, he turned away from the commercial art field and then dedicated himself to outdoor painting. As a result, Josef Urbach took on study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. After World War I, Urbach was a member of the “Young Rhineland” and entered the “Rheinische Sezession” in 1929. With his paintings Urbach followed the traditions of Expressionism of Rhenish impression. In 1923, he was named professor at the Folkwang School in Essen. Urbach accepted classes for sketching, nude and portrait painting. In addition to his educational work he was given numerous orders from industry and commerce.

As Urbach’s images were classified “degenerate” by the Nazis in the 1930s, they were removed from the Folkwang Museum. A bomb attack destroyed his studio in 1943 and destroyed all of his previous works. From 1950-68 he then produced a variety of watercolors, sketches and lithographs, while finishing only a few paintings in oil and acrylic.

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