Herbert Kreil

Herbert Kreil (born September 29, 1928 in Pilsen , † December 31, 1990 in Munich ) was a German painter and actor .

Life and work

Herbert Kreil was born in 1928 in the Bohemian town of Pilsen, where he spent his childhood before attending secondary school in Prague and the commercial academy in Budweis as part of his training. Towards the end of the war, at the age of 16, he was found fit for war and was taken prisoner by the French, from which he escaped on the transport to North Africa. After the expulsion of the family and the loss of siblings, he settled first in Lenningen and later in Weikersheim , before studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Hermann Kaspar from 1951 to 1955 . a. Ernst Eichinger and Petrus Schloemp lived in the apartment belonging to the artist bar Bei Gisela on Occamstrasse in Schwabing .

During his time in Oberlenningen he took part in exhibitions of the Kirchheim art circle . Before studying in Munich, he studied at a painting and drawing school set up by Prince Constantin von Hohenlohe , who came from Bohemia, in Weikersheim Castle .

As a freelance artist based in Munich-Schwabing, he regularly took part in exhibitions from 1954, especially the annual exhibition at the Haus der Kunst organized by the Free Munich and German Art Association . During this time he went on study trips a. a. to Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece and became a member of the group Münchner Fantasten .

Some of his landscape paintings in oil with motifs from the Ore Mountains, Vogtland and Thuringia, as well as those from his adopted home in Lenningen, Swabia, were preserved before the Wall was built. In the choice of the fantastic motifs of his second main creative period he was influenced by painters such as Hieronymus Bosch , Pieter Bruegel , Max Ernst and James Ensor .

In 1979 he played the painter in Haro Senft 's children's film A Day with the Wind .

Works (selection)

1960: Im Triebal , oil on canvas, 60 × 50 cm
1960: Sea view in summer , oil on canvas, 60.3 × 80.3 cm
1960: Inselsberg with Tabarz , oil on canvas, approx. 80.5 × 60.5 cm
1975: An evening like this , mixed media on canvas, 139.5 × 78.5 cm

Filmography

1978: A day with the wind

Exhibitions

1958: Munich from 1869 to 1958 - Departure to modernity in Munich in the Haus der Kunst in Munich (participation)

1979: Art from German federal states - Part 1: Bavaria. Munich dreamers in the Wedding Town Hall in Berlin (participation)

2008: Herbert Kreil's world of images in the Oberlenningen library

Awards

1964: Prize of the Munich Autumn Salon for the picture Italian landscape
1970: Sudeten German Culture Prize for Fine Art and Architecture

literature

Curt Grützmacher: Munich dreamers: Sonja McBesch, Herbert Kreil, Guenther Thumer; Exhibition Berlin, Wedding Town Hall, Walther-Rathenau-Saal April 27th – May 31st, 1979.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Herbert Kreil - a painter and dreamer. In: teckbote.de. Retrieved October 11, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b Herbert Kreil, Im Triebal. In: lot-tissimo.com. Retrieved on October 11, 2018 : "Late summer view of the sunny Triebal near Plauen / Vogtland with the old school route from Jocketa to Pöhl , minimal impasto landscape painting, [...]"
^ Weikersheim - Brief history of the castle. In: zum.de. Retrieved October 11, 2018 .
↑ Herbert Kreil in the Internet Movie Database (English)
↑ Herbert Kreil, summery sea view. In: auctioart.de. Retrieved on October 11, 2018 : "View from an elevated location into a moving mountain landscape with a lake, according to the previous owner's information, probably a representation of the Sosa dam in the Ore Mountains with a view of the Auersberg , glazed landscape painting, [...]"
↑ Inselsberg with Tabarz. In: auctioart.de. Retrieved on October 11, 2018 : “Summer view of Tabarz in the sunny valley and Inselsberg with observation tower and the like. Thuringian Forest , minimal impasto landscape painting, [...] "
↑ An evening like this - fantastic landscape. In: lot-tissimo.com. Retrieved on October 11, 2018 : “Sign. ru: H. Kreil and dated lu: 18.8.1975. RS painted and provided with exhibition stickers u. a .: Art Office Wedding, Berlin 1979 "

Web links

Representation of the painterly work of Herbert Kreil in the form of a virtual museum

personal data
SURNAME	Kreil, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and actor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pilsen
DATE OF DEATH	December 31, 1990
Place of death	Munich

[teck-1] Herbert Kreil - a painter and dreamer. In: teckbote.de. Retrieved October 11, 2018 .

[lot-2] Herbert Kreil, Im Triebal. In: lot-tissimo.com. Retrieved on October 11, 2018 : "Late summer view of the sunny Triebal near Plauen / Vogtland with the old school route from Jocketa to Pöhl , minimal impasto landscape painting, [...]"

[3] Weikersheim - Brief history of the castle. In: zum.de. Retrieved October 11, 2018 .

[4] Herbert Kreil in the Internet Movie Database (English)

[5] Herbert Kreil, summery sea view. In: auctioart.de. Retrieved on October 11, 2018 : "View from an elevated location into a moving mountain landscape with a lake, according to the previous owner's information, probably a representation of the Sosa dam in the Ore Mountains with a view of the Auersberg , glazed landscape painting, [...]"

[6] Inselsberg with Tabarz. In: auctioart.de. Retrieved on October 11, 2018 : “Summer view of Tabarz in the sunny valley and Inselsberg with observation tower and the like. Thuringian Forest , minimal impasto landscape painting, [...] "

[7] An evening like this - fantastic landscape. In: lot-tissimo.com. Retrieved on October 11, 2018 : “Sign. ru: H. Kreil and dated lu: 18.8.1975. RS painted and provided with exhibition stickers u. a .: Art Office Wedding, Berlin 1979 "