Adolf Vogel (painter)

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Adolf Anton Vogel (born May 14, 1895 in Ebern ; † September 12, 1959 in Hanover ) was a German painter, graphic artist and art teacher.

life and work

Adolf Vogel's parents were the government surveyor (or royal chief geometer) Paul Vogel and his wife Anna Vogel, née Hösch. The grandfather, who was also called Adolf Vogel, had been a lithographer . The family lived in Ebern in a house on the corner of Kapellenstrasse and Sutte, which is still standing today. Due to the father's job as a railroad employee, the family had to move frequently. The Vogel family moved from Ebern to Bamberg , then to Würzburg and finally to Wolfratshausen .

Adolf Vogel was enrolled at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts from 1914 . He studied with Ludwig von Herterich , Johann Becker-Gundahl and Peter Halm . Vogel was drafted into military service as a simple soldier in 1914. He was a participant in the war until the end of the First World War . Then he resumed his studies.

Munich

Many of the students with these professors can be found today in the literature on expressive realism , for example Franz Sales Gebhardt-Westerbuchberg , Paul Kleinschmidt , Albert Schiestl-Arding and Eduard Aigner . However, the term expressive realism did not emerge until 1987. The stylistic connections with this art direction in Adolf Vogel's pictures are obvious. On the other hand, he only adopted a few elements of the conservative direction of painting of the Munich School that his teachers taught him. After his studies, from 1921 onwards, Vogel worked as a freelance painter, in Munich and while traveling.

Berlin

From around 1925 he stayed in Berlin for ten years. During this time, Adolf Vogel took part in art exhibitions, all of which were progressive. In 1934 he took part in the “ Juryfrei Kunstschau Berlin ” (JKB), which was organized by the so-called “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Juryfrei” under the leadership of the painter Hermann Sandkuhl . Vogel was friends with the painter Karl Hofer , a representative of expressionism or expressive realism.

Furthermore Vogel exhibited together with three other artists with Wolfgang Gurlitt : Erich Wilke (retrospective), Helene von Bieler, Alexander Harder and Martin Kainz. There was a lot of response in the press because the Gurlitt Gallery was well known. The author Vicky von Brockhusen discussed various exhibitions in Berlin under the title “New Generation - Other Ways”, including the one at Gurlitt. In this show, the late painter Erich Wilke was commemorated in two rooms, in the other rooms three female painters were shown with Vogel. His work was described in the greatest detail by the author: “The deepest impression to be booked are the pictures by Adolf Vogel, who is shown for the first time with paintings, drawings and watercolors. (…) Vogel's landscapes prove how easily a color can develop into a wealth of color. And yet we see in him primarily the figure painter who would be called to commission for public murals. ”Overall, it is striking that Adolf Vogel is repeatedly portrayed as a special talent in the reports on the various exhibitions.

Marquartstein

In 1939 Vogel was on various journeys; there are watercolors with motifs from southern France and Italy. During this time he probably met his future second wife, the photographer Marlo Mieritz. Apparently he then lived for some time in Wagrain im Pongau , Austria. Since 1941, Adolf Vogel was registered in Marquartstein , living in Prügelweg No. 19, today's Burgstrasse 19, directly below the historic castle complex. In 1943 the couple married. Many of the motifs in Vogel's pictures come from the landscape around Marquartstein.

Adolf Vogel took part in the first Chiemgau art exhibition, about which there are contemporary descriptions. It was a milestone so soon after the end of World War II, in an extreme situation. Artists who were persecuted under the National Socialists and who were able to show pictures again for the first time, such as Karl Caspar , who repeatedly crossed Vogel's path, were also represented here. After the war, Vogel took part in other exhibitions, such as B. in September 1945 at the group exhibition "German Contemporary Art" in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, at the second free art exhibition in 1946 in Prien am Chiemsee , in the Bamberg Residence at a show entitled "German Contemporary Art" and with the Kulturkreis Chiemgau in the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen . From March 20 to May 1, 1949, Vogel had a solo exhibition in the Märkisches Museum in Witten , which represented the high point of his artistic life.

Hanover

The partnership with Marlo Mieritz broke up. In 1949 Adolf Vogel moved from Marquartstein to Hanover at Köbelinger Strasse 1. He lived in the city until his death. There he married Waltraut Vogel, née Rüffer, in 1949, one of his students at the Werkkunstschule Hannover , where he taught. Erich Grün , Herbert Aulich , Werner Brenneisen and Jürgen Krengel were also his students.

literature

  • Sibylle Kneuer: Adolf Vogel, an artist from Ebern - departure into modern painting. Eberner Heimatblatt 22. Ed. Bürgererverein Ebern 1897 eV Ebern 2020.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation book 3: 1884–1920, archive of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, registration books for the years 1809–1920 in 3 volumes.
  2. ^ Article in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 15, 1937.
  3. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 24, 1946.