Eduard Arnthal

Eduard Arnthal (Albert Eduard Alfred Arnthal) (born February 3, 1893 in Hamburg , † after 1950) was a German painter.

Life

Arnthal completed an apprenticeship at the art school in Weimar from 1910 to 1912 . He then attended the Munich Academy with Hugo von Habermann from 1912 to 1914 .

In the early 1920s Arnthal lived in Munich, where his work was presented in various exhibitions. At that time he was a member of the German Association of Artists and undertook research trips to Africa, Dalmatia, Italy and Sweden. In 1930 Arnthal can be found in Berlin.

Arnthal's work consists mainly of landscapes and figurative motifs, portraits and port motifs. His preferred means of representation was watercolor painting, whereby he tended towards lovely tones and an expressive painting style.

Arnthal emigrated during the Nazi era. As part of the Degenerate Art campaign , twelve watercolors and graphics that he had made in the 1920s were confiscated and later destroyed.

In the spring of 1940 Arnthal was classified by the National Socialist police as an enemy of the state by the Reich Security Main Office on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British island by the Wehrmacht, would find the following SS special commands with special priority should be made and arrested.

At the beginning of the 1950s Arnthal lived in Berlin.

literature

• Maike Bruhns: Art in the Crisis , Vol. 2, 2001, p. 41.
• Galerie Alfred Flechtheim: Eduard Arnthal: Paintings and watercolors: January 16 to February 3, 1928 , 1928.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register, Hamburg registry office 3 No. 203/1893 of February 7, 1893
2. ↑ Vollmer's date of birth is February 3, 1892.
3. ↑ entry to Eduard Arnthal on the special wanted list GB (play on the site of the Imperial War Museum).