Collection Art II

War Profiteer

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Title: Kriegsgewinnler (War Profiteer)
Artist: Paul Fuhrmann (1893 Berlin - 1952 Berlin)
Date: 1932
Material/Technique: Oil/Canvas
Size: 120 x 110 cm (o.R.), 123 x 113 cm (m.R.)

The painting War Profiteer was Paul Fuhrmann's contribution to the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung (Great Berlin Art Exhibition) of 1932. With it he takes a critical look at his own businness that has become corrupted. The reality of the German rearmament prior to Hitler's breach of the Treaty of Versailles is set into scene by an armament-factory owner who stands self-complacently smiling in front of the large studio window, driving the intimidated artists to his canvas.

Turning away from the reality of the streets (where war veterans, army parade, bank for war loans and factories can be seen), he is painting what he sees through the pink glasses of his spectacles: a glorification of war.

All his life, Fuhrmann himself was dealing with the social and political situation of his time. He not only joined the Communist Party but was also a member of the socially engaged artists' group ASSO (Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists). Two of his works were shown at the Munich exhibition Entartete Kunst ("Degenerate Art"), organised by the National Socialists in 1937.


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