Background
Bartoschek was born in Czuchow, which became part of Poland in 1922.
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Emil Bartoschek
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He began to learn and work in 1914 as a decorative painter in Czerwionka, where he also received drawing and painting lessons from the academic painter Gotschlich. His initial works were shown in a collective exhibition in Hindenburg in 1919. At the Bauhaus and in Breslau
In 1920 he began his studies with the preliminary course of Johannes Itten at the Bauhaus in Weimar.
Paul Klee and Kandinsky were other masters during his the studiue.
Due to the turbulent political situation in the border area of Poland and German Silesia, he left Weimar, and in 1921 went to study at the National Academy of Fine and Applied Arts in Breslau (today: Wroclaw). From 1925 Bartoschek worked as an artist in Breslau and had solo exhibitions and participated also in collective exhibitions.
He shared a studio with Alexander Camaro. Berlin
His studio in Berlin was near the Tiergarten.
Foreign commercial and political reasons he made popular impressionist and naturalist paintings of the landscape of Brandenburg, which were sold through the galleries of Sarcander and Kallide, at the Friedrichstrasse, in large quantities.
As he was afraid to be arrested by the Nazis producing "degenerate art", his real artistic work was presented in a very small circle, and only a few of these modernist paintings and drawings were sold. In 1939 he bought a small lot in the countryside near Schorfheide and built a weekend home to work more undisturbed. In 1942 his Berlin studio and much of his work was destroyed by bombs, and he moved temporarily to Schorfheide.
In 1945 he escaped from the Russians, with only a few personal items, to the western part of Germany. by Bartoschek, hidden in a bunker in Berlin, were destroyed in the battle of Berlin.
Western Germany after 1945
Emil Bartoschek became part of the artist association Hagenring in Hagen. Bartoschek"s later work turned back to the modern painting and produced a large quantity of impressionistic, abstract, expressionist and surrealist oil paintings, drawings, watercolors, tempera paintings, charcoal, chalk and graphite drawings.
In 1969, Emil Bartoschek died shortly before his 70th birthday.
Membership
He was a master student of Otto Mueller, a member of the artist group "Die Brücke", and Oskar Moll.
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Germany