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Mit finsterem Blick, die Hände in den Taschen des zu weiten Mantels, zeichnet sich Karl Hubbuch als kranker, desillusionierter Kriegsheimkehrer: Er ist sich selbst fremd geworden. Als einfacher Gefreiter hatte er die Kriegsjahre an verschiedenen Kriegsschauplätzen verbracht. Nach Kriegsende zog er sich, an Malaria schwer erkrankt, zunächst in das elterliche Haus in Neuenbürg zurück – ein kleines Dorf im badischen Kraichgau. Dort begann er langsam seine künstlerische Tätigkeit wieder auf zu nehmen.
Karl Hubbuch draws himself as a sick, disillusioned soldier returning from war, his gaze somber and his hands in the pockets of his loose-fitting coat: He has become a stranger to himself. As a simple private, he had spent the war years in different war theaters. Suffering from severe malaria after the war, he first withdrew to his parents’ house in Neuenbürg – a small village in the Kraichgau in Baden. There, he slowly began to resume his artistic work.
Karl Hubbuch draws himself as a sick, disillusioned soldier returning from war, his gaze somber and his hands in the pockets of his loose-fitting coat: He has become a stranger to himself. As a simple private, he had spent the war years in different war theaters. Suffering from severe malaria after the war, he first withdrew to his parents’ house in Neuenbürg – a small village in the Kraichgau in Baden. There, he slowly began to resume his artistic work.