Education
At the age of fourteen, he went to Pforzheim, where he successfully finished an apprenticeship as a painter in 1891.
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Georg Zundel
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He then worked as a scene painter at a Frankfurt theatre for six years, before deciding to study art in Karlsruhe, later in Stuttgart, in 1897/98. He was, however, expelled from the Stuttgart Academy of Arts, after organizing a student protest (strike). He also designed posters and interiors of homes for workers.
Later, in the 1910s, he began to focus more on religious and mythological motives.
The following year, Zundel married Paula Bosch, daughter of the famous industrialist Robert Bosch, whom he had known (and once portrayed) since she had been a child. He started to work as a farmer, painting occasionally, with the focus on idealistic and Christian motives.
Zundel died in Stuttgart in 1948 and was buried at Tübingen"s Stadtfriedhof (site of the graves of Friedrich Hölderlin and Ludwig Uhland).
Politics
His rebellious behaviour was mainly sparked by socialist ideas, that he had taken up in the previous years. In this context, he wanted to fight exploitation and repression of workers. Around the same time, he began a relationship with the much older socialist and feminist editor, politician and translator Clara Zetkin.
From 1903 until their separation in 1928, they lived at a house in Sillenbuch, outside of Stuttgart, where many socialist leaders visited them (most famously Vladimir Lenin in 1907). In his early years, Zundel painted in the style of realism, mostly choosing socialist motives, often very detailed portrayals of working-class people.
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Germany