Alfred Knispel
Alfred Knispel (born May 31, 1898 in Schwiebus ; † January 21, 1945 in Deutscheneck , occupied district of Warthbrücken ) was a German impressionist painter and winner of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo ( Rome Prize Winner ) in 1935.
Life
Knispel was born the son of a farmer and brewery owner. One of his famous ancestors was Samuel Gotthilf Knispel, who wrote the history of the town of Schwiebus from its origins to the year 1763 . In 1917, after graduating from high school, Knispel began studying literature and art history in Marburg , but was drafted into the First World War as a soldier . After the war he studied architecture and painting at the State (Royal) Art School in Berlin with Professors Philipp Franck and Hassler, and art history at the University of Berlin . Here he met his future wife, the painter Gerda von Freymann , whom he married in 1934. Their son Alexander was born in 1937.
Alfred Knispel was after studying teacher for Education in the Arts in Berlin, led the seminar for trainee and was consultant for art education in the province of Saxony. Numerous study trips took him to Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, France and North Africa. He studied the old masters, found his role models in Monet , Manet , Courbet and Pissarro and finally immersed himself in the work of Cézanne . He lived for a long time in Paris , Algiers and Tunis . At the end of the 1920s he took part in a large collective exhibition in Tunis, and in 1930 he probably had his first solo exhibition at the Martin Wasservogel Gallery in Berlin. From 1929 to 1932 he exhibited regularly at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and was a member of the Berlin Artists' Association.
In 1935 he received the prize of the Deutsche Akademie Rome Villa Massimo, a one-year scholarship to study there. His works received general attention in numerous exhibitions during his lifetime, for example in 1940 in the Graphisches Kabinett at the Association of Berlin Artists, in 1941 in the National Museum Stockholm Modern Tysk Grafik and in the Künstlerhaus Berlin Italienbilder Deutscher Künstler , 1943 solo exhibition in the Kunst-Dienst-Stuben, Berlin. His pictures were in the possession of the Prussian state, in the museum in Breslau, in Nuremberg and in the district home museum Schwiebus / Swiebodzin. In January 1945 he was drafted into the Volkssturm , three days later he fell near Deutscheneck in the district of Warthbrücken.
reception
“Knispel is not a revolutionary in painting; he does not strive for the new for the sake of novelty, and in this he differs from many artists of his age. He openly confesses that he comes from Impressionism and is trying to develop it further. But even if the influence of the French Impressionists and the German masters Liebermann and Slevogt cannot be denied, one can claim that each of his pictures shows its own note as an expression of a strong artistic personality, ”wrote the gallery owner Martin Wasservogel in 1930 on the occasion of the exhibition in his rooms.
After his death, his wife preserved his life's work. In 1981, the gallery cooling in Hannover , the estate administration and worked his work for public exhibitions, such as 1982, 1989, 1993 and 1999 in the premises of the gallery cooling in Hanover. The Świebodzin Regional Museum (Muzeum Regionalne) has been collecting works by Knispel since 2008, and in 2016 the collection consisted of twenty-one paintings.
“One could be suspicious. Because whoever was able to move into the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1936, a year after Goebbels publicly humiliated the Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum from Osnabrück, was probably dear to the Nazis. (...) But the late exhibition of the painter Alfred Knispel, who fell in 1945 (...) shows that the painter had resisted conformist tendencies. Knispel's cityscapes and still lifes have a rather fleeting application of paint and therefore a more Mediterranean lightness. "
Works (selection)
- Farm work at Schwiebus. (Muzeum Regionalne w Swiebodzinie), oil on canvas, made around 1930
literature
- Margarete Rothe-Rimpler (Ed.): Schwiebus - City and Country in the German Past. On behalf of the Schwiebusser Freundeskreis. Herbert Post Presse, Munich 1974, without ISBN.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Exhibition catalog of the Kunstkammer Martin Wasservogel. Self-published, Berlin 1930.
- ↑ Homepage of the Świebodzin Regional Museum
- ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 12, 1993
- ↑ ( Local history museum Swibodzin / Schwiebus )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knispel, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwiebus |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1945 |
| Place of death | Deutscheneck |