Karl Hubbuch

Between 1908 and 1914 Karl Hubbuch studied at the art academy in Karlsruhe and at the teaching institute of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. His fellow students included George Grosz and Emil Orlik. Hubbuch volunteered for military service and returned to Berlin in 1922 after a severe bout of malaria. In the mid-1920s, the artist first exhibited in Mannheim in the “Neue Sachlichkeit” (New Objectivity) exhibition; in 1928 at the Neumann-Nierendorf Gallery in Berlin in a group exhibition together with Otto Dix, George Grosz, Alexander Kanoldt, Carlo Mense, Georg Scholz and Georg Schrimpf. When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he was forbidden to work as an artist and his chair at the Karlsruhe Academy was withdrawn. After the division of Germany, Karl Hubbuch was honoured with major exhibitions in East and West. The Academy of Fine Arts in East Berlin, for example, shows his works under the title “Drawings and Graphics”. The Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe honoured his work in 1981 with an extensive exhibition.