Heinrich Vogel (painter, 1901)

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One of the eight copper gates made by Heinrich Vogel in the courtyard of Zeil Castle

Heinrich Vogel (born July 28, 1901 in Waltershofen near Kißlegg , † March 1, 1982 in Kißlegg ) was a German painter and visual artist who was known, among other things, for his copper driving work.

artistic education

Detail from one of the reliefs on Vogel's copper gates of Zeil Castle.

Heinrich Vogel, who grew up on his parents' farm near Waltershofen , first completed an apprenticeship in wood carving in Ravensburg and then learned in the municipal art workshops of the “Ulm School”. He then studied first at the Werkkunstschule in Cologne and from 1930 to 1934 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Joseph Wackerle . Then he returned to his home village Waltershofen .

plant

Detail from one of the reliefs on Vogel's copper gates of Zeil Castle

Heinrich Vogel worked as a painter, graphic artist, sculptor and art ceramist. His extensive work includes oil paintings, watercolors, (colored) drawings, ceramics, pyrography, inlays , wood carvings, stucco work on church ceilings (e.g. in Maselheim, Biberach district ) and glass windows. However, the artist was best known for his copper driving work . Among other things, he created the eight portals (copper gates) in the courtyard of Zeil Castle near Leutkirch in the Allgäu . Georg von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg was a special patron of the artist. In a laudation he paid tribute to its “very explosive, idiosyncratic originality”.

Vogel devoted a large part of his work to sacred art; Worth mentioning is the stone sculpture "Schutzmantelmadonna" above the side portal of the Church of St. Katharina in Ulm-Einsingen .

Vogel's better-known works also include the wooden sculpture “Horse Nature” (lime wood) and the oil painting “Dawn of Jesus and Mary”.

Other works (selection)

  • Landscape Three trees , oil pastel, 65 × 50 cm
  • After work , oil pastel, 60 × 43 cm
  • Body of the Lord , driving work in copper, 48 × 81 cm
  • Hope , driving work in copper, 31 × 53 cm
  • Heart flames , driving work in copper, 35 × 57 cm
  • Ego te absolvo , driving work in copper, 29 × 47 cm
  • Fertility , oil on plywood, 60 × 80 cm
  • Marian sun with lark song , oil on canvas, 50 × 68 cm
  • Self-portrait , drawing, 24 × 25 cm
  • Redeemer , inlay, 61 × 125 cm
  • Divine child friend , inlay, 77 × 111 cm
  • Annunciation , intarsia, 76 × 109 cm
  • Discrepancy , intarsia, 75 × 92 cm
  • Horses , intarsia, 63 × 116 cm
  • Faith, hope, love , driving in copper, 51 × 112 cm
  • Teaching folk music , driving work in copper, 40 × 63 cm
  • Three horses , oak wood, 30 × 58 cm
  • Mary with angel , linden wood, 40 × 60 cm
  • Conversations , pyrography, 54 × 165 cm
  • Sanguine , pyrography, 49 × 160 cm
  • Resurrection or Hell , pyrography, 60 × 110 cm
  • Woman in delphinium , pyrography, 52 × 65 cm
  • Demonism behind purity , pyrography, 41 × 86 cm
  • Stream of grace in the chalice , pyrography, 60 × 95 cm
  • Flower soul Grandezza , pyrography , 65 × 128 cm
  • Self-portrait , pyrography, 60 × 70 cm
  • Self-portrait , copper, 25 × 35 cm

Forced sterilization during the Nazi era

In 1935, Vogel began building a house on the outskirts of his home village of Waltershofen , the construction of which the building police authorities had not approved "because of the strange style". The building, which was already well advanced, was later demolished except for the basement due to the lack of a permit. Heinrich Vogel was arrested. From August 22nd to 31st, 1935, he was "observed" in the Tübingen University Nervous Clinic and then declared schizophrenic. Heinrich Vogel was sterilized on January 27, 1936 as part of a hereditary health court case .

In 1949, Vogel submitted a claim for compensation to the competent reparation authority. The claim was rejected because the "disadvantage" suffered was not based on political convictions "or on grounds of race, belief or worldview".

Only in January 2011 did the German Bundestag grant victims of forced sterilization during the Nazi era a claim for compensation.

death

Vogel died on March 1, 1982 of the long-term consequences of a traffic accident. The inscription on the memorial he designed himself reads: "Willegottes Zeitewigkeit Heinrichvogel".

Others

Heinrich Vogel was the uncle and godfather of Signal's long-time CEO and former PKV chairman Heinrich Frommknecht .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "So that the traces do not pass": Diana Schwarz in Schwäbische Zeitung, March 16, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Heinrich and Christa Frommknecht (eds.): “A piece of the lake must be visible - from the Frommknecht Collection” (exhibition catalog) . Dortmund and Konstanz 2002, p. 95 .
  3. ^ Matriculation database - Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Retrieved on August 14, 2017 (German).
  4. ↑ a b "The life's work of a breastfeeding man": Schwäbische Zeitung of January 4, 1979
  5. ↑ a b c d "Idiosyncratic and deeply religious artist": Schwäbische Zeitung of July 29, 2001
  6. ^ "Artistic power in search of the measure": Schwäbische Zeitung of January 17, 1979
  7. ↑ a b c d e State Office for Restitution Tübingen; Decision of November 16, 1953 (file number: 17 AW 140 / ET 5409)
  8. ↑ "euthanasia" -Geschädigte and forced sterilization. Against Forgetting for Democracy eV, accessed on September 3, 2017 .
  9. ↑ www.pkv.de
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltershofen (Kisslegg)
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1982
Place of death Kisslegg