Prof. Dr. Rudolf Lemke, attr., Im Varieté

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Lemke, attr., Im Varieté
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Lemke, attr., In the Variety
Artist juggling with top hats on a vaudeville stage in the bright spotlight, impasto painting with broad brushstroke, oil on canvas, modern label on the reverse "Nachlass Rudolf Lemke - 1906 Gollnow - Jena 1957 - Sammlung S. Lemke", craquelure, painting ground wavy, framed, folding dimensions approx. 60 x 50 cm. Artist's info: actually Rudolf Hermann Lemke, German psychiatrist, neurologist, university lecturer as well as leisure painter and lithographer (1906 Gollnow until 1957 Jena), studied medicine at the universities of Jena, Vienna, Freiburg and Berlin, 1928 state examination, from 1934 part-time at the Erbgesundheitsgericht and Erbgesundheitsobergericht in Jena, from 1939 member of the NSDAP, during World War II doctor in the nervous system in Jena. During the Second World War, he was a doctor in the nervous department of the military hospital in Jena, appointed medical councillor in 1940 and professor in 1942. He was denazified after World War II despite his numerous involvements with the Nazi regime, 1945-51 member of the SED, from 1948 representative at the chair of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Jena, the passionate amateur painter had a close friendship with the painter Hans Trimborn, in 1941 he produced, among other things, a portrait of Ricarda Huch, 1952-57 regular study visits with the lithographer and printer Arno Fehringer in Weimar, source: Wikipedia and Sebastian Lemke "Painting gets me over the crisis of the Jetzt Zeit hin weg", Klee "Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was was vor und nach 1945."