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Welcome to the A. Paul Weber-Haus! The museum exhibits lithographs, drawings and oil paintings by A. Paul Weber (1893-1980). The collection was established in 1973 by the Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg in a 17th century building, and the artist himself took part in the planning of the museum layout and the organization of the artwork.
Weber was born in Arnstadt, Thüringen. In his youth he joined the Jung-Wandervogel, a mouvemant interested in cultivating a better lifestyle and a heightened appreciation of nature through hiking. Weber's love of his native country and his attachmant to nature were awakened by hiking through Germany.
In 1928 Weber became a member of a political circle opposing Hitler and National Socialism, which was centred around Ernst Niekisch. Weber illustated books and periodicals for the Widerstands-Verlag (Resistance Press). The journals were banned and Weber was imprisoned by the Nazis from July to December 1937.
After the Second World War he continued to be a social commentator, with his criticism covering politics, justice, militarism, enviromental pollution, inhumanity, medicine and fanaticism in sports. In 1980, Weber died at the age of 87 in Schretstaken, a small village near Ratzeburg, where he had lived since 1936. |