Rudolf Großmann

His father, Viktor, was a doctor, so he initially studied medicine and philosophy in Munich, from 1902 to 1904, then spent five years in Paris, where he was a student of Lucien Simon.

In 1910, he stayed briefly in Berlin, then continued his travels; this time to Engadin (near Munich), the Tegernsee and Italy, where he lived with his friend, Hans Purrmann.

Upon returning to Germany, he lived in Berlin; creating book illustrations and portraits of celebrities, many of which were featured in the satirical magazine Simplicissimus.

After Adolf Hitler's rise to power, in 1934, he was dismissed from his professorship and retired to his hometown.

Under the National Socialist government, his works were declared to be "degenerate art" and 206 of them were confiscated.