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The artist Oskar Gawell was born in 1888, in the village of Chawłodno near Gollantsch, in the Prussian Province of Posen, now Poland. From 1909 to 1912 he studied at the academies in Wroclaw and Weimar. 1913/1914 he was one of Lovis Corinth's students in Berlin and exhibited, inter alia, alongside Max Oppenheimer and Max Pechstein in the Free Secession Berlin. During this time, the painter also maintained close contact with the artists of the "Die Brücke". During Word War I, he served in the infantry. From 1924, Gawell undertook a variety of study trips wich led him to Lithaunia, Russia, Romania, Poland, Finland, Holland, Spain, and North Africa. Further destinations of his travel activities were Belgium, Italy, Spain and Romania. Until 1937 Gawell held a chair at the Städtische Kunstschule in Berlin, which he lost due to the National Socialist cultural policy. Afterwards he was resident in Vienna, where in 1949 he was awarded the title of Professor of the Vienna Academy. Gawell was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund, the Berlin  and Vienna Secession. In 1955, the painter succumbed to injuries he had received in a road accident 18 months previously. Works of Gawells are located in the Belvedere and Leopold Museum and other collections.


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