Georg Hänel (painter)

Georg Hänel: Sciliar in South Tyrol in the Dolomites (1929)

Georg Hänel: Tree-Surrounded Pond (1932)

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

Commons : Georg Hänel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ 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.

personal data
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

[1] 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.