Karl Friedrich Lippmann

There he fell in love with Martina Ruch, whom he later married, they had four children, of which his daughter also studied art In Offenbach, he lived at Buchrainweg, No.

After the destruction of his studio during WWII he moved to Eichstätt in Bavaria to save the life of his children.

To come back to Offenbach, the art patron Dr. Jean Rill gave him an apartment in the Tulpenhofstr.

His work was shown 1923 alongside Kandinsky, Kokoschka, Klee, Liebermann and Käthe Kollwitz at the Darmstadt Secession[1] one of the most important contemporary exhibition of Expressionism.

Inspired by numerous trips to France and Italy, but also to the North Sea and the Alps, he turned from to expressionistic landscape and flower paintings.

He painted landscapes, still life (especially sunflower pictures) and photographed again, his architectural drawings were popular as newspaper and book illustrations.