Adolf Abel (sculptor)

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Adolf Abel (born September 10, 1902 in Heidelberg ; missing since April 1945 ) was a German sculptor , draftsman , modeler and building sculptor .

Life

Adolf Abel came from an old family in which sculptors and architects are united several times. He was the second of six children of the Oberfinanzrat of the same name and Johanna Abel, b. Becker. He attended elementary school from 1908 to 1912 and then switched to the Großherzoglich-Badische combined grammar school in Heidelberg , where he obtained his university entrance qualification in March 1921.

He enrolled at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in the summer of 1921 and studied from 1921 to 1923 at the Badische Landeskunstschule Karlsruhe in the drawing class of August Groh and in the sculpture class of Georg Schreyögg . From 1923 to 1928 he studied at the Baden State Art School . From 1923 to 1928 in the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg . His teachers there included Karl Hofer for painting, Kurt Kluge (ore foundry) and Ernst Henseler (life drawing), and he was also a member of Wilhelm Gerstel's master class for sculpture . Since 1926 he had his own studio in Berlin . Study stays in 1929 as a scholarship holder of the Prussian Academy of Arts for the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo and until 1933 also in Paris and Chartres are known .

From 1933 Abel belonged to the atelier community at Klosterstrasse and was one of those members there who had no fear of repression. In 1939/40 he received another scholarship for the Deutsche Akademie Rome Villa Massimo. Abel mainly designed reliefs for the buildings of the Wehrmacht and the Reichsautobahn , mostly in collaboration with Heinz Worner .

In 1945 he was drafted into the Volkssturm and has been missing since April 1945 . He sent his last letter to relatives from near Prague .

Works (selection)

  • Reclining youth , plaster sculpture , 1930s
  • Seated woman , sculpture (also on postcard )
  • Roman girl , sculpture (also on postcard)
  • Standing girl , sculpture, plaster, height 190 cm, exhibited in Munich in 1937
  • Cenotaph for the old fighters (memorial for the fallen of the NSDAP), erected in Schwerin in 1937, destroyed in 1945 (see list of monuments, fountains and sculptures in Schwerin )
  • Weilbliche half-figure , sculpture, plaster, exhibited in Munich in 1938
  • Standing youth , sculpture, plaster, height 63 cm, exhibited in Munich in 1940
  • Portrait of the painter MN , head, bronze, exhibited in Munich in 1940, exhibited in Berlin in 1942
  • Roman girl , sculpture, exhibited in Munich in 1941
  • Evening , sculpture, exhibited in Munich in 1941
  • Archer , sculpture, exhibited in Munich in 1941 (buyer Albert Speer )
  • Der Morgen , sculpture, exhibited in Munich in 1942
  • Guardian , sculpture, exhibited in Munich in 1942
  • Standing girl , sculpture, exhibited in Munich in 1943
  • Mother with child , group of sculptures, exhibited in Munich in 1943
  • Competitor , sculpture, exhibited in Munich in 1943
  • Standing youth , sculpture, zinc, height 70 cm, exhibited in Munich in 1944 (buyer Martin Bormann )
  • Seated , sculpture, zinc, height 35 cm, exhibited in Munich in 1944
  • Nocturno , sculpture, height 210 cm, exhibited in Munich in 1944

Awards

  • 1929: Great Art Prize of the City of Berlin ("Rome Prize", scholarship for the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo)
  • 1940: Prize for fine arts of the city of Berlin ("Rome Prize", scholarship for the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo)

Group exhibitions (selection)

posthumously:

Publications (selection)

  • About the sculpture of modern architecture. 1935.
  • From the sculpture of the Reichssportfeld . In: Baugilde , Ed. 18, 1936, pp. 957-975

literature

  • Abel, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 4 .
  • Adolf Abel / dormant. In: Westermanns Monatshefte , Vol. 173/174, 1942, p. 516.
  • Ateliergemeinschaft Klosterstrasse Berlin 1933-1945: Artists in the time of National Socialism. Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln, Edition Hentrich , 1994, pp. 38, 63, 108, 165, 216.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Abel / dormant. In: Westermanns Monatshefte , Vol. 173/174, 1942, p. 516. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j estate of the sculptor, draftsman, building sculptor and modeller Adolf Abel . Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library , 1990.
  3. ^ Biography on the estate of Adolf Abel in the German Art Archive
  4. ^ Adolf Abel (1902–1945) , Berlinische Galerie .
  5. ↑ Roman Girl · Roman Girl. , Kunsthalle Mannheim .
  6. ↑ Pictures of the sculpture
  7. ↑ Adolf Abel's estate in the Saxon State Library. In: Saxon State Library, Dresden. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Pictures of the sculpture
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  19. ↑ Information on the sculpture
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  22. ^ Catalog of the 56th exhibition of the Berlin Secession, Tiergarten Str. 21 A, entrance Hildebrandstrasse. Spring exhibition: painting, sculpture. Berliner Secession, Fr. K. Koetschau Verlag, 1929 p. 154.
  23. ^ Catalog , Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1934
  24. ↑ a b c d e f g Adolf Abel (1902–1945) , artist-info.com; accessed on May 4, 2020.
  25. ^ Catalog , Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1940
  26. ^ Catalog , Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1942
personal data
SURNAME Abel, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, draftsman, modeller and building sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH after April 1945