Curt Querner (1904–1976) was a German painter.
Biography
Querner was born in Börnchen, a village in
Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...
not far south of
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
(later incorporated into Possendorf, which today is part of
Bannewitz).
Querner, Curt
" (2005). ''Dictionary of German Biography''. vol. 8. Munich: Sauer. p. 108. The son of a shoemaker, he trained in metalworking and worked for a time as a factory mechanic (Fabrikschlosser).[Seelen, Manja (1995).]
Curt Querner
iographical sketch, in German In: ''Das Bild der Frau in Werken deutscher Künstler der neuen Sachlichkeit''. Münster: Lit Verlag. (Kunstgeschichte, vol. 49). p. 169.
From 1926 to 1930 Querner studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He exhibited for the first time at the Galerie Junge Kunst, of Józef Sandel, in Dresden.
References
1904 births
1976 deaths
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
German male painters
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