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Paul Bollmann
 
 
 
 
 
Paul Bollmann, born in 1985 in Hanover, became a Meisterschüler of Adolf Hölzel
at the age of 22 – a so-called "early giftedness"; on the recommendation of
Alfred Lichtwark he was a scholarship holder at the Stuttgarter Akademie with
Carlos Grethe until 1912. Then he settled in Hamburg as a freelance artist, became friends with all of the Secessionists, celebrated with them at their artists' parties, but never became a member of the "Secession". Bollmann was a soldier in the First World War, after an injury in 1916 he
 
was promoted to the rank of an Officer. As Grimm and Ballmer he later
concerned himself with anthroposophy, in 1926 he married his second wife
Gertrud Grosse, two children were born. Despite financial difficulties – in 1930 Bollmann took on the post of manager in a cinema – he succeeded repeatedly in making journeys throughout Europe. In 1932 he moved into the studio in the Ohlendorffhaus, in 1934 he accepted a teaching post at the Hansische Hochschule. Two of his works were confiscated and destroyed during the "Entartete Kunst" ("Degenerate Art") campaign. Paul Bollmann spent his 1943/1944 summer holidays in Überlingen at Lake Constance, where the glass cutting business Heberle was working on five windows of his design for the Petri-church in Hamburg. In August 1944 he died under unsolved circumstances near Ludwigshaven at Lake Constance.


 
 

Paul bollmann
Self-portait, around 1944