Curt Querner

Querner was born in Börnchen, a village in Saxony not far south of Dresden (later incorporated into Possendorf, which today is part of Bannewitz).^[1] The son of a shoemaker, he trained in metalworking and worked for a time as a factory mechanic (Fabrikschlosser).^[2]

From 1926 to 1930 Querner studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He exhibited for the first time at the Galerie Junge Kunst, of Józef Sandel, in Dresden.^[2]