Painter who co-founded the Cultural Association of the German Democratic Republic in 1945. He published and edited satirical magazine Eulenspiegel.
He objected to the First World War and went to prison for refusing military Service.
He joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1920. In 1924, he became a member of the Red Group and traveled to the Soviet Union with a group of young artists.
His father was a carpenter in Berlin.
He was born four years after the death of renowned Dutch Painter Vincent van Gogh.
