Eva Karcher

Fine biography and illustrations of this artist the nazi officials loved to hate, publically burning some of his paintings and prints in Berlin before the Second World War. Curiously, he seemed apolitical, remaining in Munich during the the Hitler era even though the gestapo arrested him briefly. In 1945 he was drafted as a very middle-aged man into the feldwehr, the last gasp of the german army to put men into the field to fight the invading allies. Later, he spent nearly two years in a French prisoner of war camp before resuming his painting career, with dificulty, in a changed art world. He was a riveting character - a pitiless observer of a violently changing scene.… (meer)