Justus Uder

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Justus Uder

Editor: François Maher Presley

Foundation for Art and Culture

Preface: Steffen Ernst

Texts: François Maher Presley, Barbara Hengst

1st edition August 2019, A5 portrait, soft, illustrated in color, 48 pages

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Justus Uder was born on July 30th, 1912 in Hamburg-Harburg. Since his father died in the First World War, the Harburg mayor took over the guardianship. Uder began painting as a child, and his special talent was recognized early on. At the age of 13 he was given the opportunity to exhibit in the town hall. The artist is still one of those painters who have had a very good education (Hamburg University of Fine Arts, with Prof. Ilies and Paul Bollmann). His scholarship from 1931 was revoked in 1935 because of "anti-National Socialist attitudes". Until the excitement subsided, Uder fled to Locarno in Switzerland, where he was housed by a friend's father. He later returned to Germany and did his military service from 1940 to 1945, first in France and later on the Eastern Front. There he served as a draftsman for the front line. After the end of the war, he managed to escape on a torpedo boat from East Prussia to Neustadt in Schleswig-Holstein. He then lived for a few months in Harburg and was a co-founder of the Hamburg group 45, went to Aschau in 1946, became a member of the professional association of visual artists in Munich and co-founder of the Munich New Group. This also included Max Beckmann, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel. However, he left the group again in 1947 and moved to Hamburg, where he became a member of the professional association of visual artists until his death. For economic reasons, he worked for many years as a technical draftsman at Blohm Voss from 1957. He spent the last years of his life from 1995 in Aschau im Chiemgau together with his wife, whom he married in 1968, in a nursing home.

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