Eduard Bargheer (1901-1979) came from the Hamburg Secession of the 1920s and belonged to the group of German artists and intellectuals who, astonishingly, withdrew to Italy from 1933 onwards - harassed in various ways by National Socialism - to a “refuge on revocation”. Bargheer lived on Ischia and there consistently continued to create his painting between “abstraction and empathy”.

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