Max Ackermann

Ackermann joined the Landsturm in the First World War, where he was wounded and discharged following a lengthy period in hospital,[4] after which from 1918 to 1919 he was a member of Der Blaue Reiter, ('the Blue Rider').

[3] Throughout the 1920s he worked as an artist in Stuttgart, where his first one-man show was held in 1924, featuring figurative and abstract paintings, pastels and drawings at the Württembergische art association.

[1] After being banned from teaching, Ackermann continued his abstract work at Hornstaad on Lake Constance, which became an artists' colony joined by Otto Dix, Erich Heckel and Helmuth Macke.

[2] Twice married, to Gertrude Ostermayer from 1936 to 1957 and to Johanna Strathomeyer in 1974, Ackermann died in Unterlengenhardt, Bad Liebenzell in the Black Forest on 14 November 1975, aged 88.

[4] In 2018 Ackermann's works were presented in a solo exhibition in the german gallery Bode in Daegu (South Korea) for the very first time in the East Asian region.