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Mohrbutter was born in Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany. He was an accomplished decorative painter, artist and craftsman. Mohrbutter received formal training under Count Leopold Karl Walter Graf von Kalckreuth at the Weimar art school between 1887 and 1890. In 1887, Mohrbutter along with several other artists formed the Hamburgischer Künstler-Klub (Hamburg Artist’s Association) an artist’s collective that viewed itself as a break away group against the powerful Hamburg Kunstverein (Hamburg Citizen’s Art Committee). Mohrbutter and his contemporaries were considered radical in their style and dubbed the “New Tendency,” or derogatively, “young artists” by the members of the Kunstverein. Mohrbutter created some controversy in 1895 with his painting “Church in Allermöhe,” when the Kunstverein deemed it being of the “New Tendency” despite many obvious influences of von Kalckreuth. In 1904, Mohrbutter received an appointment from the German Commerce Ministry to teach at the Kunstgewerbeschule or Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts in Berlin. He was made an instructor of decorative painting. There, Mohrbutter was able to collaborate with the German fashion elite and received numerous commissions, particularly with Hermann Freudenberg's Gerson store. Contact
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