Paul Strecker

Paul Strecker (13 August 1898 Mainz – 6 March 1950 Berlin) was a German artist and writer who painted and designed sets for opera and theater.

In the summer of 1924, he spent an extended period in Rome studying the works of great masters.

[1] Strecker moved to Paris in 1926 to work as a freelance painter up until the Nazi occupation, at which time he fled to the south of France.

In 1946, he began working as a set designer for the Berlin State Opera and, that same year, became a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts, and, soon thereafter, became a full professor.

Paul Strecker died March 6, 1950, in Berlin, at the age of 51.