Peter Düllberg, born in 1911 in Munich, suffered from diabetes. Due to his
father's constantly changing employment he grew up in a number of German
cities, lived in Hamburg since 1930 after various studies and job trainings, did
not, however, become a member of the "Secession". In 1941 the exhibition of his
work was prohibited, but unlike many of his fellow painters he was permitted to
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Most of his paintings were destroyed during the bombing of Hamburg in 1943, he fled to the South of Germany, initially worked as translator and only resumed painting in 1953, however at a much reduced level due to heavy illness. He died in 1976 in Stuttgart.
On 22nd November Beckett meets Peter Dülberg at the opening of an exhibition
and notes disappointedly that not even his son knows the whereabouts of his
father's painting Abendmahl.
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