Johannes Molzahn

(German, 1892–1965)

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Johannes Molzahn

Raumgebähren, 1919

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Johannes Molzahn

Meiner Frau, 1920

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Biography

Timeline

1892
Born in Duisburg
1904 - 1907
Großherzogliche Zeichenschule, Weimar, Germany
1914
Led a group of avant-garde artists (Karl-Peter Röhl, Robert Michel and Ella Bergmann) in Weimar, Germany
1915 - 1917
Military service
1920
Since then Molzahn was a member of Berliner Sturm, Novembergruppe and Arbeitsrat für Kunst
1923
Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerksschule, Magdeburg, Germany
1925
Cofounder of the group ZZ in Magdeburg with Georg Muche, Karl Krayl, Lissitzky and Piet Mondrian
1928 - 1933
Professor at Staatliche Akademie für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, Breslau, Germany
1939
Emigration to USA; Professor at Art Department of University of Washington, Seattle
1943
Professor at School of Design in Chicago

Exhibitions

1937
Exhibition Entartete Kunst
1920
Since then exhibitions in the galleries of Herwarth Walden, Alfred Flechtheim and Wilhelm Uhde
1917
Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin