Trivia

Committed suicide to avoid capture by Soviet soldiers.

German character actor of the 1930's and 40's, having previously trained and worked as an artist. He was a theatrical set painter, as well as a successful oil on canvas painter of impressionist portraits, still lives, urban views and landscapes.

Served on the Eastern Front in World War I from 1916 to 1918.

Karl Dannemann launched a successful film career from 1934 which he continued till his death.

He also impersonated support roles during World War II and took part in popular productions.

Karl Dannemann committed suicide in Berlin in 1945 in order to avoid an arrest by the Sowjet army.

After World War I he was working as an actor for the first time at different stages before he devoted again to the pictoral arts. He soon was successful as an artist and got several commissions for creating walls of public buildings. Beside it he also painted portraits but also stage sets for theater productions. His paintings distinguished with late impressionistic.

The actor Karl Dannemann worked as a decoration painter in the first place, later he studied art in Berlin and Munich.

From 1933 he avoided showing his works as a painter in public exhibitions because his paintings didn't come up with the standard of the artistic assessment of the National Socialists.