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To the frequent question about the origins of his art, Josef answered: «I came from my father very much and from Adam, that’s all.» He never mentioned his mother lost while he was still a child, nor did he evoke his stepmother for whom he felt just about nothing, or even his two sisters whom he paid no particular attention.
For Josef, the definition of man could be found in his father.
Born in 1888, he was a man of the old German school. For him, the woman was an object of desire without taboos or emotions. In his opinion, such attraction could be aroused by the opposite sex only. A staunch homophobe and heterosexual, had he lived in the current era, he could have been sued for sexual harassment by women who would not have suffered him touching the delicate curves of their bosom or their attractive waist.
