Ferdinand Spiegel

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Ferdinand Spiegel (born June 4, 1879 in Würzburg ; † February 4, 1950 ibid) was a German painter, graphic artist and illustrator and representative of a " völkisch " -traditionalist style, based on his designs in 1934 and 1935 a total of twelve postage stamps of the Reichspost were spent.

Life

Spiegel was a student of Wilhelm von Diez in Munich and initially appeared as an employee of the Simplicissimus and the Munich youth . From 1918 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and from 1924 at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin . Here he came out particularly with the representation of large, pithy peasant figures and with numerous, heroic portraits of soldiers.

According to his drafts, two stamp series were issued in the German Reich: the series “Professions” from 1934 with nine values ​​and the series for the “Schütz, Bach and Handel celebration” 1935 with three values.

Spiegel, who was a valued artist during the National Socialist era , was represented at the Great German Art Exhibitions in the House of German Art in Munich with a total of 35 works, including eleven aviator pictures in 1941 and eleven pictures relating to the Todt Organization in 1943 . From 1939 he headed a master workshop at the Berlin Academy. In the final phase of the Second World War , Adolf Hitler included him in the God-gifted list of the most important painters in August 1944 , which freed him from military service, including on the home front .

literature

  • R. Pfeiffer: Bergbauern, the face of a people , in: Die Völkische Kunst, 1 (1935).
  • Ernst Klee : "Spiegel, Ferdinand" Entry in ders .: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 578.
  • Susanna Partsch : Spiegel, Ferdinand . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 105, de Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-023271-4 , p. 263 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Two of them are shown in Die Deutsche Wochenschau No. 669.
personal data
SURNAME Spiegel, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1950
Place of death Wurzburg