Herbert Agricola
Herbert Agricola (born May 7, 1912 in Nuremberg , † 1998 in Munich ) was a German painter , graphic artist and poster artist.
Life
After his apprenticeship as a decorative painter , Agricola studied from 1930 to 1934 at the State School for Applied Arts in Munich. His teachers were Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and Erich Pretorius . Until 1939 he worked mainly as a commercial artist and designed a. a. Posters. For example, he painted the poster for The Great Anti-Bolshevik Exhibition in Berlin in 1937 .
From 1940 he worked in the Second World War with the rank of corporal (1942) as a war painter and belonged to the Army Group South in Stalingrad (see also: Battle of Stalingrad ).
After the war Agricola lived and worked in Munich. He shifted to romanticizing landscapes , interiors, portraits and nudes , and increasingly abstract compositions.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1942: Drawings and watercolors by war painter Obergefreiter Herbert Agricola, Army Group South, Stalingrad, in the Berlin arsenal
- April 1974: Pictures and graphics , joint exhibition with Waldtraut Cooper and Marlies Jedelhauser, Grohmann exhibition room , Munich
- July 9, 2008 - April 13, 2009: Graphics from World War II by the Munich artist Herbert Agricola (1912–1998), special exhibition in the Bavarian Army Museum , New Palace , Ingolstadt
Works
- Survival - What Else? As a painter through the Second World War. , Munich 1989 (autobiography).
literature
- Personal entry in: General Artists Dictionary (AKL). The visual artists of all times and peoples . Verlag Saur, Munich and Leipzig 1991ff., Volume 1, Page 587 f., ISBN 3-598-22740-X .
- The useful modern age - graphics & product design in Germany 1935–1955 , exhibition catalog, publisher: Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster 2000.
Web links
- Herbert Agricola on GoogleBooks
- Working example of a wheat blonde teenage sweetheart , approx. 1956
- Helmut Eberth: German Directory of Artists from 1800 , page 49 ( Memento from March 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.83 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Exhibition Beauty of Work and Work in Art, Munich, Exhibition Park , October 16 to November 6 (1937) , akg-images.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Agricola, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and poster artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1998 |
| Place of death | Munich |