Georg Tappert
Germany (1880—1957)After an apprenticeship as a tailor, Georg Tappert studied painting and printmaking at the Karlsruhe Academy from 1901 to 1903. He later joined the artistic community of Worpswede, where he founded a private art school. After the Berlin Secession rejected his work, he co-founded the Neue Secession in 1910. In 1918, he was among the founders of the Novembergruppe. From 1919 to 1924, he taught at the Reimann-Schule and, from 1921, held a professorship at the Staatliche Kunstschule in Berlin. After the Second World War, he helped rebuild the Hochschule für Kunsterziehung in Berlin, serving as its director until 1953.
