Georg Arnold-Graboné  Georg Arnold-Graboné (also Arnold Grabone; September 11, 1896 – February 10, 1982) was a painter of German impressionism and an art teacher. Because Grabone is not his real surname, sometimes his name appears as Georg Arnold-Graboné. Born in Munich on September 11, 1896, Arnold was the son of the Regional-President Wilheim von Arnold. He went to study at Munich Art Academy. In 1914 the young Arnold passed his Abwalt (exit examination), and volunteered as an enlistee in the German Army. While serving in World War I. he suffered a head injury from a grenade explosion. The injury left him temporarily without hearing or speech. Because of his injuries he was discharged from the army. He returned to his Schwabian homeland. Without the benefit of any additional schooling, Arnold began to paint everything he saw. Although his speech and hearing returned, he could not abandon his love of painting. He began to study formally in Stuttgart and then studied Cubism in Vienna under Professor Lippert. Here he became a member of a circle of painters known as the “Licht-Gruppe”. Arnold abandoned these experimental forms and returned to more traditional painting. Some years later he would write “Ich bin kein freund der Abstracten kunst” (I am no friend of abstract art). After Vienna, Arnold returned to in Munich where studied landscape painting under Heinrich von Zügel and Leo von Konig. After Munich, he traveled to Berlin where he further refined his painting style under the well-known German impressionist Max Liebermann. Arnold once wrote that Liebermann made him into a true painter. On his stylistic naturalism, Arnold once wrote: "Ich gebe die Stimmung der Landschaft so wieder, wie ich sie emfinde und wie sie auch der Betrachter empfinden soll" (I show the texture of the landscape in the way that I feel it and, as also how I want the viewer to feel it)  In 1928 Arnold was awarded a gold medal in Vienna for his oil painting: Hardanger Fjord. In 1932 he moved to Zurich to teach at an art academy. He later became its Rector. In 1936 he began to use the name Graboné as a "kunstlername" rather than Arnold. Graboné was derived from Garabronn, the place which contained his family home.