Carl Anton Reichel

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Carl Anton Reichel (born December 3, 1874 in Wels , † October 25, 1944 in Vienna ) was an Austrian - Czechoslovak autodidact, visual artist, art collector and dealer.

origin

His father Anton Reichel ( Hennersdorf , Silesia, April 21, 1843 - Linz , December 3, 1884) came from a farming family and was a notary in Grieskirchen . He obtained his doctorate on November 3, 1870 at the University of Vienna. On February 6, 1873, he married Caroline Rabl (1851-1914). The marriage had three children: in addition to Carl Anton, Friedrich and the hygienist Heinrich Reichel (1876–1943).

Life

Reichel went to school in Salzburg and Kremsmünster . He studied medicine, psychiatry and psychology in Prague (1894–1895) and in Vienna - possibly also in Munich - but without a degree. 1903–1904 he lived in Munich, where he met Alfred Kubin . His first marriage was Hilde Konstanze Dolmatoff (born in Riga ). The children Dorothea (1906–1972) and the anthropologist Erasmus Gerhard Reichel-Dolmatoff (1912–1984) emerged from the marriage. For a while they lived in Großgmain , after 1912 via Hermann Bahr and Anna Bahr-Mildenburg in Arenberg Castle in Salzburg. Bahr dedicated his play Der Unmensch (1919) to "the great artist Carl Reichel with grateful devotion" . In 1914 or 1917 he acquired the " Edelhof " near Micheldorf in Upper Austria , where he also came into contact with Arnold Schönberg .

In 1918, after the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Reichel received Czechoslovak citizenship - as a German-speaking he decided not to apply for Austrian citizenship. At this time a friendship developed with the Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria , who was called “Dr. Ritter “found shelter for a while. As a result, he became heavily involved in Munich as a monarchist and in the 1920s became the negotiator between the former prince and Adolf Hitler on the role of the monarchy. There was also a close friendship with Ernst Röhm , the leader of the SA . The proximity to Hitler and Röhm ended the relationship with Rupprecht.

Privately, he had left his family in the mid-1920s to live in Paris with a daughter of the anatomist Carl Rabl (who in turn was a niece of his mother). In 1933 he married again, this time the actress Tony Van Eyck . After the “ Anschluss ” of Austria, he would have been taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp , but was released in 1938. He would have escaped further arrests by the GeStaPo through his friendship with Hitler.

In 1943 one of his works was shown in an exhibition in Hitler's birthplace in Braunau am Inn .

He is buried together with the painter Rudolf Sternad at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Create

After making woodcuts in the first few years, Reichel worked primarily as an eraser. The scope of his work is given as about 300 works. He was very interested in India, Tibet and Buddhism. His interest in the fantastic make him a forerunner of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism .

Archival tradition

In Department III (Secret House Archives) in the estate of Crown Prince Rupprecht, material about Reichel has been preserved in the Bavarian Main State Archives (820).

literature

Fiction works :

Memoir literature :

  • Hermann Bahr: Diary. November 17th. Neues Wiener Journal, 30 (1922) # 10433, 6. (December 3, 1922) Book edition: HB: Liebe der Lebenden. Diaries 1921/23. Borgmeyer, Hildesheim 1925, Volume II, pp. 257-260
  • Ernst Hanfstaengl: The Memoir of a Nazi Insider who turned against the Fuhrer. New York: Arcade Publishing 1957, p. 157
  • Adalbert Schremmer: My friend Karl Anton and world history. In: Die Warte (1950), No. 2, p. 3.


Secondary literature

  • Paul Clemen : Carl Anton Reichel. In: Die Kunst für Alle, vol. 37 (1922), June, pp. 282–296. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kfa1921_1922/0310
  • Regina Dickinger: Carl Anton Reichel, 1874–1944 biography and catalog raisonné , diploma thesis Salzburg 1985
  • Regina Doppelbauer (o Dickinger): The graphics of Carl Anton Reichels - reflection of the soul between irrationalism and psychoanalysis dissertation. At the Geiwi Faculty of the University of Salzburg in 1988.
  • Reichel Karl Anton. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988,ISBN 3-7001-1483-4, p. 29 f. (Direct links on p. 29 , p. 30 ).
  • Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo: Arqueología Biográfica: Las raíces Nazis de Erasmus Reichel, la vida en Austria (1912–1933). Biographical Archeology: The Nazi Roots of Erasmus Reichel, life in Austria (1912–1933) In: Memorias, No 18 (2012) online
  • Dagmar Ulm (Ed.): Ghosts, Gold, Shamans. Treasures of gold from Colombia. Catálogo del Museo del Oro del Banco de la República, Bogotá - State museums in the Linz Castle Museum, 2007.


Source editions

  • Georg Wacha: "On Carl Anton Reichel: The correspondence with Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria", in: Art Yearbook of the City of Linz 1976 , Linz 1977, pp. 53–61.
  • Carl Hans Watzinger: Carl Anton Reichel: An artist's life in the change of mind of the 20th century. In: Oberösterreichische Kulturzeitschrift, vol. 26 (1976), no. 4, pp. 39-46.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arqueología Biográfica: Las raíces Nazis de Erasmus Reichel, la vida en Austria (1912-1933). In: rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co. Retrieved January 1, 2016 (Spanish, This article serves as the source for most of the information in the entry on facts and figures.).
  2. ^ Reichel, Anton. March 11, 1870, accessed January 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Reichel, Carl Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH catfish
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1944
Place of death Vienna