Hans Baluschek - "Degenerate Artist" - Painter of Railway Scenes - Part 1

Der Bahnhof

Arbeiterstadt  "Workers City" 


This painting is now at the Milwaukee Art Museum (link.)

Huettenwerk - An integrated steel mill.

Werkhaltstelle Arbeiterhaeuser - literally, "Work Stop Place"

Probably only the workers at this particular factory were allowed to use this stop.

Zur Grube - "To the mine"

Die Elektronische Lokomotiv

"A Hundred Years of German Railways"

Book Cover

Bahnhofshalle - "Station Platform"

Anfahrender Schnellzug - "Night Express"

Tiefer Schnee Sonne im Wintermorgen

Here is my stab at a translation: "A Winter Morning Sunlit Scene Under the Bridge"

Zyklus Die Eisenbahn Die Schranke

Locomotiv

Spreeluft - Cover of a booklet of his drawings.

Hans Baluschek (1870-1935) was a German artist, considered an Expressionist, but he has also been considered more of a Realist.  He was the son of a railway engineer, of the drafting table sort, and Hans had a lifelong interest in railways. Trains are the subject of many of his works, but he also worked railway scenes into many other works showing every day life in industrial and urban Germany. Baluschek was a member of the Berlin Secession, a group of artists who were organized to counter the conservatism of the art establishment of the time.  After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Baluschek was branded a degenerate artist.