Georg Hänel (painter)
Karl Georg Hänel (* 19th December 1879 in Dresden , † 17th April 1945 in Gammesfeld , Schwäbisch Hall (killed)) was a German landscape and animal painter and commercial artist .
Georg Hänel studied from 1897 to 1906 at the Art Academy in Dresden with Eugen Bracht and from 1898 with Carl Bantzer . Georg Hänel received several awards during his studies, including a. 1903 with a small silver medal for his overall achievement. In the First World War , Hänel took part as a soldier and painted patriotic battle pictures that were published in German magazines; he received the Iron Cross 2nd class.
Hänel went on study trips to Mecklenburg , Bavaria , Switzerland and the Salzburg Alps. He mainly devoted himself to landscape and animal painting. As a commercial artist, he created advertising posters, calendar pages and advertisements, etc. a. for Weber's coffee-spice , Sunlicht-Soap , Kupferberg Gold-Sekt , the steamship hotel Blasewitz and the Dresden Zoo .
Georg Hänel regularly took part in art exhibitions in Dresden and Munich until 1944 . At the exhibition in Munich's Glaspalast in 1913, he received a second class gold medal. He was a member of the Dresden Art Cooperative and belonged to the March Association . The March Association was a circle of friends of former students of the Dresden Art Academy around Otto Westphal , Georg Hänel, Friedrich Wilhelm Hörnlein , Rudolf Pöschmann , Johannes Paul Ufer , Otto Altenkirch , Oskar Menzel and Alexander Höfer . Meetings are documented up to the 1940s.
literature
- Ernst Sigismund : Hänel, Georg . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 435 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Hänel, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 349 .
- Andreas Quermann: Hänel, Georg . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 67, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23034-9 , p. 275.
Web links
- Biography AntikBayreuth
- Images by Georg Hänel on artnet
- RKD
Individual evidence
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^ Maria Petrasch: In the Third Reich . In: Otto Altenkirch 1875–1945, life and work. Book accompanying the exhibition Otto Altenkirch 1875–1945 in Schloss Nossen, September 3 to November 13, 2005 . State palaces, castles and gardens of Saxony, Nossen Castle / Altzella Monastery Park, Nossen 2005, ISBN 3-00-016284-4 , p. 74-79 . Hans Günther Hartmann: The “March Association” - a forgotten Dresden artist community. A contribution to the cultural history of Dresden in the 20th century . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 51, 2005, 1, pp. 20–31.
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SURNAME | Hänel, Georg |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hänel, Karl Georg (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape and animal painter as well as commercial artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1879 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1945 |
Place of death | Gammesfeld |