Curt Lahs

Curt Lahs (15 January 1893 Düsseldorf - 11 June 1958 in Berlin) was a German painter and arts professor.

He returned to Volkskunstschule, Düsseldorf in 1930 but was dismissed from his teaching post by the Nazis, Branded a "Degenerate Artist" in 1933.

[1] In 1943 he was unwillingly drafted into the German Army and the same year captured by American troops and incarcerated.

Most of his early work was destroyed when the home in which paintings were stored was burned in a bombing.

In 1948 he began a second position at the Hochschule fur Bildende Künste, Berlin, travelling between jobs by train.