DÜLBERG, PETER (German, 1911-1976)

Peter Dülberg was a gifted painter, stage designer and linguist. Son of the artist and theatre producer Ewald Dülberg, Peter Dülberg spent his childhood moving between Munich, Hamburg, Bonn, Berlin and Kassel, where in 1921 his father had taken up teaching at the Kunstakademie. In 1926 he studied theatre at the Bauhochschule in Weimar, before moving to Paris in 1932. Here he studied painting with Amedée Ozenfant and published Nipingo, his grammar of an imaginary language.