Max Wilhelm Waldemar Dungert (3 September 1896,

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- April/May 1945,

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) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life and work

He was born to Ferdinand Dungert, a police

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, and his wife Betty Elise née Koehler.Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Deutschland, Geburtsregister 1874–1903 atenbank online Standesamt Magdeburg Altstadt, Registernummer 2372/1896 From 1910, he attended the , where he studied with

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and

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, among others. In 1919, he was one of the co-founders of a short-lived artists' association known as "" (The Sphere); devoted to

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art. Its membership included , , . After 1920, his works would briefly display a trend toward

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. In 1921, he went to Berlin and joined the

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, another association of Expressionist artists and architects. Later, he would also create works in the

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style. During the next few years, he occasionally shared a studio with Beye. From 1925 to 1928, he made several study trips to Italy, France, and Switzerland. He established his own private drawing school in 1930, and joined "Porza" (named after the city in Switzerland), an international association for intellectual and artistic exchanges. During the

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regime, in 1937, several of his works were confiscated as part of the campaign to identify and eliminate " Degenerate Art". He was drafted into military service in 1944. His studio and many of his works were destroyed not long after. He was killed sometime during, or immediately following, the

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. In addition to his paintings, in 1925 he created

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windows for a dancing school operated by Berthe Trümpy (1895-1983), which were destroyed during the war. He also produced portrait sketches of notable musicians and composers, such as

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and the French singer,

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. His works may be seen at the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, and the

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. The city of Magdeburg has named a street after him.

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