Alfred Bergel
Alfred Bergel (born on 4. January 1902 in Olomouc , (now Olomouc , Czech Republic ); murdered in October 1944 in Auschwitz ) was an Austrian painter and art teacher.
Life
Alfred Bergel was a son of Arnold and Jeanette Bergel and lived with his parents in Vienna from 1907 . There he attended secondary school at Glasergasse 25 on Alsergrund (today Erich-Fried-Gymnasium) up to secondary school high school diploma in 1920. Karl König , who later became Camphill's founder, was one of his childhood friends . From 1920 to 1924 Bergel studied at the Vienna Art Academy with a qualification to teach as an academic painter . From 1925 to 1938 he was a drawing teacher (professor) at the Bundesrealschule Vienna IV .
Bergel married Sophie Gutbinder on June 1, 1930. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich , he was banned from working as a Jew in 1938. On October 9, 1942, Bergel was deported with his wife and other family members in Transport No. 45 from Vienna to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he was a prisoner until 1944. The transport to Auschwitz followed on October 16, 1944 (prisoner number 1211). He was murdered in the gas chamber by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp in October 1944 . Of his family members, his wife and sister survived the concentration camp with her husband.
Work and effect in Theresienstadt
Alfred Bergel taught - partly together with the Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis - the children and young people in drawing, art history and art observation and gave many forbidden courses and lectures on art. He also worked in the so-called “painter's workshops”, where he painted commissioned scenes from Theresienstadt life. This includes the well-known picture of the central library in the ghetto , which is now in the Altona Museum in Hamburg .
Together with other artists, Bergel was asked to copy pictures by well-known painters for the Nazi officers. But there are also several not yet sufficiently researched information about a "special workshop" (as a continuation of the "Lautscher workshops", which were partly headed by the Dutchman Joseph Spier), in which forgeries had to be produced for sale on the international art market.
literature
- Anne Weise: Alfred Bergel. Sketches from a forgotten life . Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 2014
Web links
- Alfred Bergel , ghetto-theresienstadt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anne Weise (2014), p. 160 ff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergel, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olomouc , (today Olomouc , Czech Republic ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1944 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz concentration camp |