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Kohler, Alfred - 1916 Schwabach - 1984, "Landschaft mit Häusern", unsigned, foxing, passepartout, RhG dam, c. 46x60,5cm; Kohler attended the Nuremberg State School of Applied Arts from 1933 to 1935, in 1935 he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was the youngest art student at the age of 18, after one semester he became a master student, in 1937 he left the academy, from 1938 he exhibited at the Franke Gallery in Munich, his paintings were soon classified as "degenerate art" by the National Socialists, so that he had difficulties in obtaining painting materials. He returned to Schwabach in 1938, and from 1938 to 1945 he was banned from selling his work. In 1941, his studio was destroyed in an air raid on Schwabach. After the end of the war in 1945, Kohler took part in the founding of Nuremberg art associations such as the "Circle" and the Schutzverband Bildender Künstler, but he soon left the circle again because he did not want to support "the developing uniformity of the young artists, who were often similar in their works for guesswork"; he was one of the last representatives of classical modernism in Germany,

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Kohler, Alfred - 1916 Schwabach - 1984, "Landschaft mit Häusern", unsigned, foxing, passepartout, RhG dam, c. 46x60,5cm; Kohler attended the Nuremberg State School of Applied Arts from 1933 to 1935, in 1935 he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was the youngest art student at the age of 18, after one semester he became a master student, in 1937 he left the academy, from 1938 he exhibited at the Franke Gallery in Munich, his paintings were soon classified as "degenerate art" by the National Socialists, so that he had difficulties in obtaining painting materials. He returned to Schwabach in 1938, and from 1938 to 1945 he was banned from selling his work. In 1941, his studio was destroyed in an air raid on Schwabach. After the end of the war in 1945, Kohler took part in the founding of Nuremberg art associations such as the "Circle" and the Schutzverband Bildender Künstler, but he soon left the circle again because he did not want to support "the developing uniformity of the young artists, who were often similar in their works for guesswork"; he was one of the last representatives of classical modernism in Germany,

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