Ernst Trowel

Ernst Kelle (born June 17, 1885 in Magdeburg , † January 21, 1954 in Hamburg ) was a German painter. He is one of the painters of the Lost Generation .

life and work

Ernst Kelle grew up in Magdeburg, where he graduated from high school in 1903. He then went to Hamburg and worked there from 1910 in the state service with the Hamburg port companies until his dismissal in 1935.

He was active as a painter since the early 1920s. He studied from 1922 to 1924 at the evening school of the state arts and crafts school in Hamburg. His teachers were Eduard Winkler (lithography), Friedrich Wehland (painting), Fritz Behncke (painting) and Professor Poppen. In 1943, after the bombing of Hamburg, he moved to Marburg , where he lived until 1952. Kelle was unable to exhibit between 1938 and 1945 because his pictures were ostracized by the National Socialists.

In Marburg he was active in the Upper Hessian Artists Association. In 1946 he founded the gallery "Senta Kahl" in Marburg. His sponsors included u. a. the art historians Richard Hamann from Marburg and Paul Wember from the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld. In 1952 Kelle returned to Hamburg, where he died in 1954.

The pictures obtained from his complete oeuvre are predominantly still lifes , often still lifes with flowers in the succession of Impressionism. Kelle, on the other hand, achieved great recognition in the exhibitions in Marburg in 1946 and in Krefeld in 1948, where he showed works in the post-expressionist style with current reference to the immediate post-war period. Image titles such as survivors , refugees and Der Krieg , which has been in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld since 1948, were created.

Exhibitions (selection)

1936: Galerie Commeter , Hamburg
1937: Spring exhibition of Hamburg artists in the Kunstverein, Kunsthalle Hamburg
1946: "Post-Expressionist Contemporary Art", University Museum Marburg .
1946: "New German Art", Constance, June 1946
1947: "Art of the 20th Century from Marburg Ownership", University Museum Marburg
1947: Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
1947: Collective exhibition in the Senta Kahl gallery, Marburg
1948: Upper Hessian Artists Association, Marburg University Museum
1948: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum , Krefeld
1949: Collective exhibition, Senta Kahl Gallery, Marburg
1949: Parnass Gallery , Wuppertal
1949: "Young Fine Arts", Wetzlar
1950: Joint exhibition with Franz Frank and Johann H. Höhl (1904–1982), Kunstverein Kassel

literature

Volker Heydorn: Painter in Hamburg 1886–1945. Volume 1. Hamburg 1974. p. 117.
Richard Hamann: Exhibition of Post-Expressionist Painting of the Present: Ernst Kelle, Alo Altripp, Jakob Best, Wilhelm Inkamp. Marburg 1946.
Artist Lexicon Berlin: de Gruyter. Volume 80, pp. 10, 11.
Meeting point Parnassus, Wuppertal 1949–1965. Rheinland Verlag, 1980, p. 19.
Klaus Dieter Spangenberg: Ernst Kelle, artist years in Marburg. A rediscovery. Self-published, Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-00-059862-3
Klaus Dieter Spangenberg: Ernst Kelle. Liberated art in Marburg. New beginnings and renewal. Büchner Verlag, Marburg 2019. ISBN 978-3-96317-186-4

Numerous press reports and exhibition reviews on Ernst Kelle were published in the Marburg Press and the Upper Hessian Press between 1946 and 1954.

Web links

Meeting point Parnass, Wuppertal, 1949–1965, Art and Museum Association Wuppertal, Von der Heydt Museum

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Trowel, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 17, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1954
Place of death	Hamburg

[Marburg-1] Catalog entry, University of Marburg

[2] Chronology of the exhibitions - Galerie Parnass , Central Archive for German and International Art Market Research eV (ZADIK)