Herbert Kitzel

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Herbert Kitzel (born May 5, 1928 in Halle (Saale) , † August 25, 1978 in Karlsruhe ) was a German artist of the 20th century.

Life

Kitzel was born the son of a businessman in Halle an der Saale and studied from 1945 to 1950 at the Burg Giebichenstein art school with the typographer Herbert Post . He then worked as a painter in Halle until 1957, where he a. a. with the artists Kurt Bunge (1911–1998), Albert Ebert (1906–1976), Gertraud (1929–2002) and Otto Möhwald (1933–2016), Otto Müller (1898–1979) and Hilmar and Heidi Manthey (* 1929) was friends. From 1952 Kitzel was represented at all annual exhibitions of the German Association of Artists until the year of his death. In 1955 he joined the Association of Visual Artists of Germany (VBKD), in whose annual exhibitions he took part in the mid-1950s. In 1956, the gallery owner and publisher Eduard Henning (1918–1962) showed Kitzel's first solo exhibition in Halle. In 1957 he took part in the great art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst (Munich) and in the same year he was appointed as a teacher at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . In 1958, Kitzel moved from Halle to Karlsruhe. In 1959 he stood out through numerous exhibitions: a solo exhibition at the Karlsruhe Academy was opened by his colleague HAP Grieshaber , and another solo exhibition took place in Galerie 5 in Reutlingen . He took part in the exhibition “Junge Westen” in Recklinghausen , the exhibition “art allemand de bade-wurtemberg” in Nancy , an exhibition in the Galerie d'Eendt in Amsterdam and a traveling exhibition of German art in South America. Also in 1959 he took part for the first time in the exhibition of the " New Darmstadt Secession " , which he regularly sent and of which he became a member.

In 1962, Kitzel received a professorship at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. His students, with whom he was still on friendly terms later, included Dieter Krieg (1937–2005), Wolfgang Trust (1926–1986), Hans Baschang (* 1937), Manfred Woitischek (* 1943) and Wolfgang Henning (* 1946) . His largest solo exhibition to date was organized by the Wuppertal Art and Museum Association in 1963 . In 1964 Kitzel took part in the spring exhibition of the Kunstverein Hannover, the traveling exhibition of the Kunstverein Hannover and the traveling exhibition of German art in Denmark. In 1965 he appeared in solo exhibitions in Darmstadt, Munich and at the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen ( “Signals, Manifests, Protests” ). In the same year he was elected to the board of the Baden-Württemberg Artists Association. Since the beginning of the 1960s, Kitzel's pictures have fetched ever higher prices on the art market.

Since 1969, Kitzel also dealt with ceramic work. In 1973 there were four more solo exhibitions ( Rothe Gallery in Heidelberg , Der Spiegel Gallery in Cologne , Böttcherstraße Gallery in Bremen and Atelier Galerie in Augsburg ), in 1974 a retrospective of his work in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and in 1976 an exhibition in the Gallery of the current account in Stuttgart.

On 25 August 1978 Herbert titillation committed in Karlsruhe suicide . He was married to the artist Mareile Kitzel (née Grimm).

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Herbert Kitzel deals with painting, various graphic techniques and artistic ceramics. At the beginning of the 1950s, he developed his individual representational-figurative style, which, under the influence of Western art of the late 1950s, he developed into the vicinity of abstract expressionism , without giving up representationalism. At the beginning of his artistic career he often borrowed his subjects from the world of tightrope walkers, jugglers and acrobats. His early works reflect man's powerlessness against death and dictatorship. After the 1956 Hungarian uprising , which moved tickling deeply, his paintings were characterized by lamentations for the dead and threatening scenarios. Kitzel, who went to the West in the course of the “ formalism debate ” led by the SED , did not feel completely at home there either. In the era of the West German “ economic miracle ”, which was dominated by the dogma of non-representational art, he felt like an outsider.

Herbert Kitzel is one of the main representatives alongside Hermann Bachmann, the Hallesche Grau .
Quote from Klaus Gallwitz: ... The gray in the pictures was the gray over Halle .... Hardly any painter of his generation has painted more decisively out of the gray. ... Movement, object and color are full of impetuous melancholy ...
It was a basic experience that he took with him from Halle.

Award

In 1963 Kitzel received the Darmstadt City Art Prize .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Herbert Kitzel at the annual exhibitions 1952 to 1978 (accessed on September 9, 2015)

literature

  • Herbert Kitzel, Die Zeit in Halle: on the occasion of the Herbert Kitzel exhibition. Painting 1948–1978  ; Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle, October 24, 1993 to January 2, 1994; Municipal gallery in the Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe, March 12 to May 8, 1994 / Ed .: Jürgen Scharfe. Halle, Saale: State. Galerie Moritzburg, 1993. ISBN 3-86105-081-1 .
  • Herbert Kitzel: Works 1951 to 1978  ; Catalog ; May 18 to July 4, 1982, Bad. Kunstverein eV, Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe: Badischer Kunstverein, 1982.

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personal data
SURNAME Tickle, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1978
Place of death Karlsruhe