Franz radziwill biography

Franz Radziwill (6 February 1895 – 12 August 1983) was a German painter known especially for his landscape paintings in a magic realist style.

He was also associated with the New Objectivity movement.

Radziwill was born in Strohausen. His father was a potter. Radziwill apprenticed as a bricklayer in Bremen before beginning a course in architecture in 1911 at the State Institute of Higher Technology.

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During 1913–14 he took evening classes in draftsmanship and commercial design at the Bremen School of Arts and Crafts.

He was in the military service from 1915 to 1917. In 1920 he began to paint. Radziwill relocated to Berlin in that year, and joined the Berlin Secession.

In 1922 he moved to the secluded northern town of Dangast and concentrated on painting the local landscape.

His first solo show was in 1925 in Oldenburg.

Radziwill's paintings are meticulously rendered using a glaze technique adapted from the old masters. He often introduced industr