Correspondence and ephemera relating to Paul Citroen, collected by his friend, Dr Adelheid Heiman

Collection

Title:: Correspondence and ephemera relating to Paul Citroen, collected by his friend, Dr Adelheid Heiman

Title (official language):: Correspondence and ephemera relating to Paul Citroen, collected by his friend, Dr Adelheid Heiman

Scope and content:: This collection comprises correspondence between Paul Citroen and Dr Adelheid Heiman, printed epheme together with related printed ephemera and postcard reproductions of works by Paul Citroen.

Administrative/biographical history:: Roelof Paul Citroen was born in Berlin of Dutch parents in 1896. He studied painting at the Studien-Ateliers fur Malerei und Plastik in Berlin in 1913 and 1914 under Martin Brandenburg and came under the influence of Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth. From 1914-17 he was in close contact with the avant-garde movement der Stürm and for a while renounced painting to run the Stürm bookshop. In 1918 he participated in the Dada movement by creating photo-compositions but by 1922 he had resumed painting and continued his studies at the Bauhaus in Weimar. In 1927 he settled in Holland and bagan to specialise in portrait painting.In 1933 he founded the first modern art academy - de Nieuwe Kunstschool - at Amsterdam and from 1935 to 1940 taught at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsken in the Hague. During the Second World War he spent time in hiding in Holland but after 1946 he continued to paint portraits, designed some stage sets and designed tiles. He died in 1981.

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