Wilhelm Lachnit (12 November 1899, , near

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

— 14 November 1962, Dresden) was a German painter who was primarily active in Dresden.

Life

Lachnit was born in the small town of Gittersee; his family moved to Dresden in 1906. He studied at the

Kunstgewerbeschule A Kunstgewerbeschule (English: ''School of Arts and Crafts'' or S''chool of Applied Arts'') was a type of vocational arts school that existed in German-speaking countries from the mid-19th century. The term Werkkunstschule was also used for the ...

Dresden under Richard Guhr, and later at the

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, where he was acquainted with and influenced by

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, Conrad Felixmüller, and Otto Griebel. He joined the

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in 1924 and was active in producing various forms of

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throughout the 1920s. He co-founded the "Neue Gruppe" with Hans Grundig, Otto Griebel, and Fritz Skade; successful exhibitions in Paris, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, and Dresden followed. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Lachnit's work was declared " degenerate" and confiscated by authorities. During this period he was not allowed to make art and worked as an exhibition designer. Much of his confiscated work was destroyed during the February 1945 firebombing of Dresden. His 1923 watercolours ''Man and Woman in the Window'' and "Girl at Table" were found in the Munich Art Hoard. Lachnit continued to paint after the end of

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. In 1947 he was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Bildene Künste Dresden. Among his more important students were Jürgen Böttcher, Manfred Böttcher, and Harald Metzkes. Lachnit died of a

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in 1962 and was buried in Loschwitzer Friedhof in Dresden.

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Entry for Wilhelm Lachnit
in the

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About William Lachnit's work
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Life

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