{"id":14680,"count":0,"description":"Eugen Croissant (born October 18, 1898, in Landau in der Pfalz; died February 2, 1976, in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee) was a German painter and caricaturist. Born to painter August Croissant, he showed an early talent for drawing and painting. After attending primary school, he went on to study at the Humanistisches Gymnasium in Landau, eventually beginning an architecture program at the Technical University in Munich in 1918, which he left after two years. His father, impressed by his talent, introduced Croissant\u2019s work to painter Max Slevogt, who encouraged his shift to art studies.\n\nCroissant studied in Munich from 1920 to 1922 under Julius Diez and Willi Geiger, and in 1923 under Karl Caspar at the Academy of Fine Arts. He continued as a freelance artist in Munich, joining the Transrhenania Corps in 1928, and embarked on painting trips to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Balkans. Croissant was a member of the German Artists\u2019 Association, the Munich Secession, and, after 1946, the New Group.\n\nIn 1937, the Nazi regime confiscated his oil painting Tegernsee (1926) from the Bavarian State Painting Collections as part of the \u201cDegenerate Art\u201d campaign, and its whereabouts remain unknown. Despite this, Croissant remained part of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and exhibited a gouache at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1941.\n\nMany of his watercolors were destroyed in the 1931 Munich Glaspalast fire and in 1943 when his studio was bombed. Afterward, Croissant moved with his wife Elisabeth, an artist specializing in reverse-glass paintings and woodcuts, to Breitbrunn am Chiemsee, where he became known as a Chiemsee painter.\n\nFor his 70th birthday, he was honored as an honorary member of the Heinrich von Z\u00fcgel Society, and in 1975 he received the Painting Prize from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. He passed away in 1976 on the Urfahrn peninsula in Breitbrunn. Part of his written legacy is preserved in the German Art Archive at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.","link":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/c\/artist-en-2\/eugen-croissant-en\/","name":"Eugen Croissant","slug":"eugen-croissant-en","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":1857,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/14680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/1857"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=14680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}