Curt Liebich (17 November 1868,

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- 12 December 1937, Gutach) was a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor.

Life and work

After some initial training in

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, he transferred to the

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. After 1890, he studied at the

Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar The Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar (German:Großherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstschule Weimar) was founded on 1 October 1860, in Weimar, Germany, by a decree of Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. It existed until 1910, when ...

. There, he met the famous "Black Forest Painter",

Wilhelm Hasemann Wilhelm Hasemann (16 September 1850, Mühlberg – 28 November 1913, Gutach) was a German genre painter and illustrator. Life and career Hasemann was the only son of a mechanic and left school at the age of fifteen to work in his father's s ...

. In 1896, he married Hasemann's sister-in-law, Antonie Lichtenberg, and settled in Gutach; painting scenes of rural and village life. He also created

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motifs that made the bollenhut (a formal headdress) and the

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familiar throughout the world. As an illustrator, he designed title pages for books and magazines as well as advertising graphics. Together with Hasemann, he established the Gutach artists' colony. During and after

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, he helped create several war memorials; in

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, Laufenburg, Meissenheim, Rhina and Schapbach. In 1917, he was named a professor by

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. Antonie died in 1919. The following year, he married her younger sister, Emma. In 1923, he was named an

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of Gutach. In 1933, he designed the Gutacher honorary citizenship certificates for

Robert Heinrich Wagner Robert Heinrich Wagner, born as Robert Heinrich Backfisch (13 October 1895 – 14 August 1946) was a German Nazi Party official and politician who served as ''Gauleiter'' and ''Reichsstatthalter'' of Baden, and Chief of Civil Administrati ...

and

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.Newspaper, ''Der Kinzigtäler'' 12. September 1933. The Kunstmuseum Hasemann-Liebich, featuring works by both artists, was opened in Gutach in 2005.

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Kunstmuseum Hasemann-Liebich
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Life and work

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