Max Schwimmer

Max Schwimmer (9 December 1895 – 12 March 1960) was a German painter, graphic artist and illustrator.

After returning from the war, he began studying art history and philosophy at the Leipzig University in 1919.

He also found a connection to the anti-bourgeois cabaret scene, which was dominated by Hans Reimann, Erich Weinert, Slang (Fritz Hampel), and Ringelnatz.

In April 1945, the guards of the prisoner-of-war camp fled to Altenburg in the American occupation zone.

[2][3] After the end of the war, he joined the Communist Party of Germany and in 1946 received an appointment as professor and head of the graphics department at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.

The artist's estate in the possession of the Stadtbibliothek Leipzig [de] includes 72 paintings, 30 gouaches, 1494 watercolours, 1880 drawings, 2335 book illustrations.