Albert Wiegel

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Albert Wiegel (born December 7, 1869 in Ziegenhagen , † October 22, 1943 in Kassel ) was a German glass artist of historicism and the Wilhelmine era . He specialized in the production of glass engravings and cut glass portraits.

Life

Albert Wiegel was born as the son of the glass factory manager Johannes Wiegel and his wife Albertine, née Vaupel, in the glassworks near Ziegenhagen. At the age of 12, he began training as a glass cutter in his father's company. In 1884 he went to the technical school in Steinschönau , where he was trained by Franz Ullmann. In 1886 he moved to Vienna , where he perfected his manual skills at Lobmeyer . At the end of the 1880s he returned to Hessen and founded his own glass cutting workshop in Kassel.

Wiegel specialized in engraving behind glass, which he carried out with copper wheels and small chisels. In addition to various glass vessels, such as glasses and goblets, he also decorated thicker glass plates, which he obtained from the Cristalleries du Val-Saint-Lambert , with portraits and busts. Albert Wiegel received at the world exhibition in Amsterdam in 1895 for his glass engraving of the portrait of Emperor Friedrich III. the Golden Cross of Honor. Emile Gallé , who was a member of the selection jury, described Wiegel as a “rising star”, which has contributed to increasing his awareness.

As a result, he made numerous portraits of personalities from the German Empire and of German artists such as Richard Wagner and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . He worked the back of the glass objects in such a way that the portrait appears like a high cut. Wiegel had his main creative phase during the Wilhelminism period .

Through his acquaintance with Rudolf Steiner , he was influenced by esoteric and occult ideas. Albert Wiegel died in the air raid on Kassel on October 22, 1943 by a bomb hit his house at Grosse Rosenstrasse 21.

reception

Today, the engraved glass objects are shown in numerous museums around the world, including the German Historical Museum , the Corning Museum of Glass , the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf and the State Museums in Berlin .

Glass objects by Albert Wiegel reach prices of several thousand euros at international art auctions .

Works (selection)

  • Portrait cups with the bust of Friedrich III., Wilhelm I., Wilhelm II., 1888
  • Portrait cup with half-length portrait of King George V of Hanover, Otto von Bismarck, King Albert of Saxony, 1897
  • Portrait cup with the half-length portrait of Victoria Luise, 1897
  • Friedrich von Moltke, glass block, 1899
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, glass block, 1902
  • Otto von Bismarck, glass block, 1910
  • Richard Wagner, glass block, 1913
  • Portrait of Johannes Gutenberg
  • Portrait of Martin Luther
  • Bismarck Cup

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Spiegl: Glass of the 20th Century: Art Nouveau, Art Déco . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7814-0219-3 , pp. 217 .
  2. ↑ a b Albert Wiegel. Digital art and culture archive (d: kult), accessed on November 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Three mirror plates: Multi-faceted Bismarck | BR.de . November 10, 2018 ( br.de [accessed November 11, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Sabine Baumgärtner: Portrait glasses: the glass portrait from three centuries . Bruckmann, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7654-1844-7 , pp. 259-262 .
  5. ↑ Werner Dettmar: The Destruction of Kassel in October 1943: a documentation . Hesse, Fuldabrück 1983, ISBN 3-924259-00-3 .
  6. ^ DHM object database: Portrait of King Albert of Saxony. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Plaque with Portrait of King and Emperor Frederick III. Corning Museum of Glass, accessed November 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Digital art and culture archive (d: kult). Retrieved November 11, 2018 .
  9. ↑ A large Kassel goblet with a portrait by Albert Wiegel of Victoria Luise of Prussia, daughter of Emperor Wilhelm II (1892 1980). sothebys.com, accessed November 11, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Dr. Fischer Art Auctions, 2010, http://www.auctions-fischer.de/ : 249: 27th glass auction in Zwiesel - Dr. Fischer Kunstauktionen - auction house for art, glass and antiques. Retrieved November 11, 2018 .

literature

  • Franz-Adrian Dreier: Albert Wiegel - A glass engraver of the Wilhelminisch Epoch , Journal of Glass Studies, Volume XV, 1973, pp. 174-183
  • Gustav Edmund Pazaurek : Bismarck Cup by Albert Wiegel , In: Art glasses of the present: Monographs of the arts and crafts, Volume 19/20, 1925, p. 56f.

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personal data
SURNAME Wiegel, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Glassworks near Ziegenhagen
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1943
Place of death kassel