Adolf Uzarski

Adolf Uzarski (April 14, 1885 – July 14, 1970) was a German writer, artist, and illustrator associated with the New Objectivity movement.

[citation needed] He exhibited in Berlin and Hagen in the years before World War I, and also became a successful commercial artist.

[1] This stylistically diverse group, which also included Arthur Kaufmann and Herbert Eulenberg, was united only by their rejection of academic art.

Active as a visual artist and also as a writer of poetry and fiction, Uzarski illustrated his own books and those of others.

In 1942, condemned as a degenerate artist by the Nazis, he was forbidden to paint, and went into hiding in Robertville, Belgium.