Bourgmeisterin Episode #65: Joseph Kutter, part 2

𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗵 𝗞𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱: “𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲, 𝗜’𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻” 🎭🖌️ (part 2)By the 1930s, Europe was spiraling into chaos, and Kutter’s art was officially branded “degenerate” by Hitler’s regime – which, honestly, 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 😬🔥So Paris welcomed him while dictators fumed. Luxembourg? Still kind of awkward about him.Then came his famous Clowns series 🤡 – except these weren’t cheerful birthday-party clowns. Oh no. These were deeply exhausted, existential-crisis clowns. Basically the emotional support mascots of depression. Through them, Kutter painted his own fears, illness, and loneliness onto canvas with brutal honesty.And somehow, while battling a worsening disease, he still created massive works for the 1937 Paris World Expo and helped shape Luxembourgish modern art forever. Even his house became avant-garde drama: redesigned, rebuilt, re-roofed, “Bavarian-ified,” then restored decades later like the world’s fanciest architectural glow-up 🏠✨Kutter died in 1941, misunderstood by many at home.Today? He’s considered one of Luxembourg’s greatest artists.Turns out the moody guy with sad clown paintings was right all along🎨