“Dresden’s most diligent glorifier”: The painter Fritz Beckert, who grew up in the Vogtland, died 60 years ago | free press

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The art historian Hans Joachim Neidhardt calls his work “the last and greatest artistic documentation of old Dresden before its destruction”. And the influential chief editor of Verlag der Kunst in the GDR, Erhard Frommhold, regards the painter, who stayed in the East after the war, as a “master of interior painting”: He pays tribute to…

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