Jag ramlar in i radioföljetongen om två bortglömda konstnärsöden och googlar efter målningar som kan fylla ut orden. Fredrik Sjöberg läser sin egen berättelse.

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En värld av konst från mellankrigstiden öppnar sig. Ernst Neuschull är en ny bekantskap.

In 1932 Neuschul became Professor of Fine Arts at Berlin’s Academy of Fine Art and was also elected chairman of the Novembergruppe. In 1933 however, an exhibition of his paintings was closed down by the Nazis. Because of his Jewish birth and radical political opinions Neuschul also lost his teaching post and in March 1933 he returned to Aussig accompanied by his wife Christl. In 1935 Neuschul was invited to exhibit and work in the Soviet Union, painting portraits of steelworkers and revolutionary figures and even gaining a double portrait commission of Stalin and Dimitroff. In 1937 however several of Neuschul’s paintings on exhibition in Aussig were vandalised and disfigured with swastikas, a grim foretaste of what awaited him and his family if they remained.

Neuschul, his wife and child eventually escaped the Nazis on the last train out of Czechoslovakia, eventually arriving in London in 1939. In 1959, a one-man exhibition was held at the Betzalel National Museum in Jerusalem and in 1966 a major retrospective exhibition in Berlin with the title ‘From the New Objectivity to the New Non-Objectivity’. He died in London in 1968.