Emil Ressel (painter)

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Emil Ressel on Place de Tertre in Paris in March 1969
Residence of the Ressels in Hofer Wilhelmstrasse after the eviction
Alley in Santorini , work from 1988
Example of an environmentally critical paper from 1982

Emil Ressel (born February 25, 1921 in Bílovec ; † June 24, 1991 in Erlangen ) was a long-time administrative officer of the city of Hof , who gained fame as a painter , graphic artist and caricaturist .

Life

Emil Ressel, son of a father of the same name, was born in the Czechoslovakian town of Bílovec (German: Wagstadt) as a Sudeten German . After attending elementary and community school from 1927 to 1936, he began commercial training with the builder and engineer Paul Ressel of the same name, but not related. He used his wages to pay for private lessons with an artist. At the beginning of 1940 he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service and in 1941 the Wehrmacht , where he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant . Drawings from the wartime have not survived. At the end of the war he became an American prisoner of war, he was briefly imprisoned in an English prison camp and then stayed in Klint in Lower Saxony . Drawings and pictures he made were used for barter transactions that were essential for survival in the immediate post-war period.

His family, who had been driven out of Bílovec, fled to Hof . Ressel lived with his father and sister in the building at Wilhelmstrasse 23 in Hofer Westend , not far from the Schiller-Gymnasium . In 1948 he got a job as an office worker at the city of Hof. In May 1948 he married his wife Elfriede, née Weiß. The relationship resulted in two daughters and a son. The couple then lived in the house at Enoch-Widman-Strasse 50. Before his retirement in 1981, he was a councilor and head of the auditing office .

Artistic work and reception

Ressel first exhibited in Hof in 1948, supported by Hannes Schultze-Froitzheim and Gottfried Brockmann . As a member of the group of artists Gruppe Nordfranken and the professional association of visual artists for Upper and Lower Franconia, he exhibited together with other artists in Bamberg , Bayreuth , Nuremberg , Munich , Würzburg , Schweinfurt , Bonn and Graz ; only from 1962 mainly in Hof.

Overview of the solo exhibitions in Hof, Bamberg and Bayreuth:

  • 1962 Hof, House of Youth
  • 1964 Hof, Beyer Gallery "Team 64"
  • 1967 Hof, Weinelt Gallery
  • 1970 Hof, Hypo Gallery
  • 1971 Bamberg, Small Gallery Grüntal
  • 1976 City of Hof, Freiheitshalle
  • 1980 Bayreuth, BAT Casino Gallery
  • 1981 Bamberg, Galerie Sommer
  • 1986 City of Hof, Freiheitshalle
  • 1991 City of Hof, Bavarian Vogtland Museum

His works, many with motifs from Hof ​​and the surrounding area, are mainly owned by the government of Upper Franconia and the cities of Hof, Bamberg and Bayreuth, but also from private art collections. On March 17, 1991 he was honored by the Lord Mayor of Hof Dieter Döhla with the Johann Christian Reinhart plaque . In 1996 there was a posthumous memorial exhibition on the occasion of his 75th birthday. From October 2011 to January 2012 the KulturKreis Hof e. V. in the Johann Christian Reinhart Cabinet Works by Ressel in the context of Hof im Herbst by Emil Ressel (1921–1991). From Hofer town houses and the art collection of the city of Hof . Ressels, Rolf Burchard's and Erich Leckel's likenesses and résumés - all three with a “displacement background” and working in Hof - are displayed on three steles arranged one behind the other in the permanent exhibition Refugees and Displaced Persons in Hof in the Museum Bayerisches Vogtland ; to the right of each a work typical of the work of the respective artist. Ressel is an ink drawing of the Michaeliskirche in Hof with the Saale in the foreground. There are more of his works in the museum's collection.

In Ressel's early artistic phase, he mainly worked naturalistically on watercolors , portraits and nude drawings . He often dealt with his new hometown Hof and captured impressions of the city with its people and the surrounding landscape. On the other hand, Ressel's work is shaped by numerous study trips, which he u. a. to Paris , London , Rome , Spain ( Andalusia ) and Greece ( Santorin ) and found their artistic expression in numerous pictures. In the 1960s, his pictures became predominantly abstract , cubist to constructivist . In the 1970s and 1980s critical contributions to environmental protection were added, depictions of how humans intervene in nature and are responsible for damage and environmental pollution . 1500 works are recorded in the database of the family archive, about two thirds of them being ink and chalk drawings and one third of large format pictures (50 × 80 cm or similar).

Illustration work (selection)

  • Hanns Schröder (text and presentation); Emil Ressel (Ill.): The youth hostel Hof / Saale and the surrounding area. Issue 16 of the series Bayerische Jugendherbergen , Bavarian State Association for Youth Hikers and Youth Hostels, 1955.
  • Max Beisbart (editor) and a .; Emil Ressel (Ill.): Court. A city book. Municipal Traffic Office Hof, City Council, Hof 1956 (2nd revised edition).

literature

  • Ressel, Emil. In: Otto J. Groeg (Ed.): Who's Who in the Arts. A Biographical Encyclopedia Containing Some 13,000 Biographies and Addresses of Prominent Personalities, Organizations, Associations and Institutions Connected with the Arts in the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2, Who's Who-Book & Publ., 1978, p. 100. ISBN 978-3-921220-22-1
  • In memory of the painter Emil Ressel. In: Alte Heimat Kuhländchen vol. 45, 1992, p. 455.
  • Leo Reichel: Emil Ressel - a passionate painter . In: Home calendar for the Fichtelgebirge, Franconian Forest and Vogtland . Hof 2012. pp. 84–87.
  • Ralf Sziegoleit: Catalog of the city of Hof 6/2000 - Art from 2 centuries - Collections of the city of Hof .
  • Peter Tschoepe: Seeing is Ressel's greatest pleasure . In: Kulturwarte - monthly for art and culture , issue 10/1972. Hof 1972. pp. 199f.

Web links

Commons : Emil Ressel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In the evening old town (wash drawing by Emil Ressel)  in the German Digital Library
  2. ↑ Ressel, Emil. In: Otto J. Groeg (Ed.): Who's Who in the Arts. A Biographical Encyclopedia Containing Some 13,000 Biographies and Addresses of Prominent Personalities, Organizations, Associations and Institutions Connected with the Arts in the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2, Who's Who-Book & Publ., 1978, p. 100.
  3. ^ Wärschtlamo , caricature by Emil Ressel, online
  4. ^ Artist of the group North Franconia. From December 11, 1971 to January 15, 1972, the Kleine Galerie shows… Emil Ressel: watercolors, wax crayons, drawings; Alfred Richter: colored inks, charcoal drawings. 1971.
  5. ↑ Ellionor Leidolf fire: Pictures of Emil Ressel, Wagstadt issued in freedom hall of court. In: Alte Heimat Kuhländchen vol. 39, 1986, p. 235.
  6. ^ Emil Ressel's drawings  in the German Digital Library
  7. ^ Johann Christian Reinhart badge. In: Hof in the mirror of the numbers. Statistical Yearbook 2007. , City of Hof, 2007, S: 15.
  8. ↑ Review 2011: October 13, 2011 - Ressel exhibition. KulturKreis Hof eV, 2011.
  9. ↑ New exhibition shows pictures by Emil Ressel. Frankenpost , October 15, 2011.
  10. ↑ Stefanie Menke: "Refugees and displaced persons in Hof". To the new section of the permanent exhibition of the Bavarian Vogtland Museum. In: Yearbook for German and Eastern European Folklore. Blickpunkt II - Photographs as a source for researching the culture of Germans in and from Eastern Europe. Volume 53, Waxmann Verlag, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2012, p. 192. ISBN 978-3-8309-7722-3 .
  11. ↑ The youth hostel Hof / Saale and the surrounding area. in the catalog of the German National Library .
  12. ↑ courtyard. A city book. in the catalog of the German National Library .
personal data
SURNAME Ressel, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bílovec
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1991
Place of death gain