Karl Völker

After an apprenticeship as an interior decorator from 1904 to 1910, he studied from1912–1913 at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts where Richard Guhr was his teacher.

[2] In the early years of the Weimar Republic he contributed many articles and prints to newspapers of the KPD (Communist Party of Germany).

[3] His painting Railroad Station (1924) celebrates both the station—newly built by Halle's KPD government—and the unity of the mass workers descending the stairs.

Declared a degenerate artist by the Nazis, he was forced to support himself from 1933 to 1943 performing architectural conservation work.

After military service in World War II he resumed working as an architect and painter.