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German painter, graphic artist and sculptor. P. studied from 1913 in Düsseldorf and Weimar, before he was drafted for military service. In 1919 he joined the artists' group 'Junges Rheinland'. From the early 1930s, the life of the Sinti became one of his central artistic themes. His Passion cycle led to a ban on painting by the National Socialists in 1934, and several of his works were confiscated as 'degenerate'. P. spent the time until the end of the war in inner emigration in the Eifel. In 1947-58 he was a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy, among his students were Günter Grass, Günther Uecker and Herbert Zangs. Mus.: Mülheim/Ruhr, Bad Bentheim, Drevenack. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit.