Herbert Rolf Schlegel

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Herbert Rolf Schlegel (born August 26, 1889 in Breslau , † January 13, 1972 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German painter and a representative of the romantic version of the New Objectivity .

Life

Herbert Rolf Schlegel was born in Breslau (Wrocław) as the son of the businessman Gotthard Schlegel, where he grew up with ten siblings in a wealthy merchant family. After graduating from high school, he completed a two-year commercial apprenticeship. From 1909 to 1910 Schlegel attended the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts , where he took the subjects of drawing and decorative painting. From 1910 to 1911 he studied landscape and nude painting under Gari Melchers (1860–1932), Fritz Mackensen (1866–1953) and Ludwig von Hofmann (1861–1945) at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar . Schlegel lived on Bornholm from 1911 to 1913 to train himself in figure and landscape painting. From 1913 to 1921 he continued his studies in painting and additionally for the higher teaching post at the Royal Art Academy in Kassel . Hans Olde (1855-1917), a leading exponent of late impressionism, appointed him in 1914 as a master class student. His studies in Kassel were interrupted by his engagement as a soldier in the Prussian army. He served as a technical draftsman from 1915 to 1918 during the First World War in Poznan , where he met his future wife Elisabeth Petersen (1898–1921), the daughter of the Silesian painter Wilhelm Petersen . They married in 1919 in Polsnitz (Pelcznica). Schlegel and his wife returned to Kassel to continue his studies. In 1920 he first passed the state examination for art educators. A year later he passed his art studies at the Kassel Art Academy under the academy director Carl Bantzer (1857-1941) with distinction as the best student.

Schlegel then worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist in Kassel from 1921 to 1923. A stroke of fate struck him in 1921 with the death of his 23-year-old wife and their child shortly after the birth, which he could not get over his entire life. In May 1924 Schlegel settled in St. Georgen near Dießen am Ammersee . He lived in the artist house of the Silesian patron Anna Kujawa (1870–1933). After eight years, Schlegel moved to Schondorf am Ammersee in 1932 , where he took over the management of the pottery at Landheim Schondorf for the next eight years from April 1932. Until his death in 1972 he lived in the former fishing village on the banks of the Ammersee in a small studio apartment in the Villa am Seeberg. Schlegel died on January 13, 1972 at the age of 83 in the municipal hospital in Landsberg am Lech . He was buried in the Schlegel-Forst family grave in Solingen .

activities

In 1928 Schlegel painted the altarpiece “Christ on the Way to Emmaus” for the Protestant community in Utting for the new church. From 1932 to 1940 he took a position as an art teacher at the grammar school of the Landheim Schondorf am Ammersee. For the lessons in drawing, which he gave in 1938 in addition to pottery courses, he wrote the manuscript "Methodology of Drawing Lessons". Schlegel was a member of the Landsberg-Lech and Ammersee artists' guild, in whose annual exhibitions he has regularly participated since it was founded in 1934. After serving in the military district of Weilheim in the Second World War from 1940 to 1945, he founded a private school for applicants for a place at an art academy in his studio in Schondorf. One of his well-known students was the artist Reiner Cornelius .

Two manuscripts with poems full of melancholy and Weltschmerz have come down to us from the 1950s.

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Herbert Rolf Schlegel devoted himself to depictions of figures and landscapes from Upper Bavaria and Upper Italy, which had their origins in both Art Nouveau and Neo- Romanticism and dealt with topics such as “Spring”, “Mother's happiness”, “Homecoming”, “Holy Hour” or beach life. He portrayed boys and girls in the fashionable clothing of the 1920s that mirror the youth and life reform movement of those years. The painterly work was scattered after his death. A three-volume catalog raisonné in which he had copied his paintings in miniature watercolors was lost. Schlegel created paintings, watercolors, drawings and woodcuts. In the past few years, the painter's works have repeatedly found their way into the art auction trade.

Solo exhibitions

A list of the solo and group exhibitions can be found in the monograph Axel Hinrich Murken , Herbert Rolf Schlegel (1889–1972). His life and his work , Verlag Murken- Altrogge , Herzogenrath 2020 on pp. 155–156 included.

  • 1963: Gallery of Wh – Innenausstattungs GmbH, Münster
  • 1975: Universitas Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1986: Herbert Rolf Schlegel . Estate sales exhibition Heinrich Hoff, Burg Galerie, Brüggen
  • 1987: Sparkasse of the City of Solingen
  • 1989: Town hall of Schondorf am Ammersee

Group exhibitions

  • 1912: Kunstverein Kassel, Kassel
  • 1914: Munich annual exhibition in the Glaspalast
  • 1919: Christmas exhibition Kassel artists, Kassel
  • 1920: Kassel Spring Exhibition , Art Association and Art Academy, Kassel
  • 1924: Southwest German Exhibition , Darmstadt
  • 1928: Great art exhibition , Breslau
  • 1935–1936: Christmas exhibition of the artists' guild Landsberg, Lech and Ammersee , town hall, Landsberg am Lech
  • 1936: Summer exhibition of the artists' guild Landsberg, Lech and Ammersee , town hall, Landsberg am Lech
  • 1938–1939: Christmas exhibition: Landsberg artists' guild, Lech and Ammersee , town hall, Landsberg am Lech
  • 1940–1941: Christmas exhibition of the artists' guild Landsberg, Lech and Ammersee , town hall, Landsberg am Lech
  • 1942–1943: Christmas exhibition of the artists' guild Landsberg, Lech and Ammersee , town hall, Landsberg am Lech
  • 1955: Autumn exhibition of the Landsberg, Lech and Ammersee artists' guild , City Hall, Landsberg am Lech
  • 1972: Helga and CH Rosthal: estate of the painter Herbert Rolf Schlegel and other commissions , Meerbusch-Büderich
  • 1989: Ammersee landscapes , pigeon tower in Dießen am Ammersee

Public collections

  • City Museum Kassel
  • Community of Schondorf am Ammersee
  • Gay Museum , Berlin

monograph

Literature (selection)

The literature is listed in the monograph Axel Hinrich Murken , Herbert Rolf Schlegel (1889–1972). His life and his work , Verlag Murken-Altrogge, Herzogenrath 2020 on pp. 158–159 included.

  • Art Association Kassel. Exhibition catalog. Kassel 1913.
  • German art exhibition in the Glaspalast . Exhibition catalog, Munich 1914, p. 122.
  • Kasseler Tageblatt, December 19, 1919. Review of the Christmas exhibition “Kassel Artists” 1919. Discussion of the painting “Washerwomen” (1912) by Herbert Rolf Schlegel.
  • Kassel art exhibition . Exhibition catalog. Kassel 1922.
  • Paul Heidelbach , Kassel Art Exhibition 1922 . Hessenland 36, 1922, p. 84.
  • Southwest German exhibition . Exhibition catalog. Darmstadt 1924.
  • PS, first Diessner art exhibition . Ammersee Post 37, August 13, 1927, No. 96, pp. 1-2.
  • Willy Oskar Dressler , Dressler art manual . 2nd volume. Visual arts. Berlin 1930.
  • Herbert Rolf Schlegel . In: Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker (eds.): General encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Reprint of the edition from 1930 and 1932. Leipzig 1999, volume 30, p. 28.
  • Fritz Gantner, painting exhibition in Landsberg am Lech. The exhibition, which is well worth seeing, runs until January 10, 1944 . Schongauer Nachrichten, December 1, 1943, No. 282, p. 4.
  • Those who are lucky bring home a picture , tour of the exhibition of the artists' guild from Ammersee, Münchner Merkur on October 20, 1955.
  • Anton Heinz Heindl, the west bank of the Ammersee, a second Worpswede. A contribution to the history of an Upper Bavarian artist colony . In: Lech – Isar – Land yearbook, 1964, pp. 112–149.
  • The Ammersee became the artist's home. Painter Herber Rolf Schlegel: 75 years . Landsberger Tageblatt of August 22/23, 1964, p. 26.
  • Dieter Westecker, All about Schlegel. First auction of the Meerbusch auction house . Rheinische Post, No. 273, November 24, 1972, p. 6.
  • Helga et al. CH Rosthal, Herbert Rolf Schlegel . In: opening auction. Estate of the painter Herbert Rolf Schlegel and other commissions. Meerbusch – Büderich, November 18, 1972, p. 3.
  • Monogrammlexikon 2 / Dictionairy of Monograms 2. International directory of monograms by visual artists of the 19th and 20th centuries , ed. by Paul Pfisterer , Walter de Gruyter 1995, ISBN 3-11-014300-3 , p. 747.
  • Herbert Rolf Schlegel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of the Visual Artists. Emphasis. Leipzig 1999, Volume 4, p. 190.
  • Rosemarie Klemm , Ammersee landscapes. Artists who painted at the lake and views of today . In: Ammersee landscapes. An exhibition of the Heimatverein Diessen und Umgebung eV on the occasion of its 60th anniversary in the Tauberturm from October 5th - 27th 1985. Diessen 1985, pp. 3–6.
  • Vera Thiel, Herbert Rolf Schlegel. A retrospective in the Stadt-Sparkasse Solingen , Solingen 1987.
  • UAM, Herbert Rolf Schlegel. Romantically inflated . In: Solinger Morgenpost, September 19, 1987.
  • H. Paul Rachinger, Lexicon of Ammersee painters . Volume 1. Diessen 1993, p. 32.
  • Bernd Busch, 50 years of Evangelical Luth. Parish of Dießen , Utting (Ammersee - West). Dießen 1998, p. 10.
  • Paul Schmaling, Künstlerlexikon Hessen – Kassel 1771–2000 , Kassel 2001, p. 509.
  • Dietgard Grimmer, The Shoe in Art , Salzburg 2007 (no page number).
  • Dagmar Blaha , Frank Boblenz and Volker Wahl , From the Art School to the Bauhaus Weimar , 2008, pp. 136, 161.
  • Susanne Lücke-David , Schondorf am Ammersee. Portrait of a village . 2nd Edition. Thalhofen 2010, p. 60.
  • Axel Hinrich Murken , In search of an ideal world. Herbert Rolf Schlegel (1889–1972) , Leporello with numerous illustrations and a text on the biography, Herzogenrath 2015.
  • Axel Hinrich Murken, rare altarpiece from 1928 has disappeared. The painting by Herbert Rolf Schlegel in the Protestant Christ Church in Utting has not been in place since 1987 . Ammerseekurier, No. 12, February 12, 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Herbert Rolf Schlegel at De Gruyter online
  2. ^ Herbert Rolf Schlegel (1889–1972). His life and work , by Axel Hinrich Murken , Verlag Murken-Altrogge, Herzogenrath 2019, p. 150, ISBN 978-3-935791-54-0 .
  3. ^ Herbert Rolf Schlegel (1889–1972). His life and work , by Axel Hinrich Murken , Verlag Murken-Altrogge, Herzogenrath 2019, p. 151, ISBN 978-3-935791-54-0 .
  4. ^ Herbert Rolf Schlegel (1889–1972). His life and work , by Axel Hinrich Murken , Verlag Murken-Altrogge, Herzogenrath 2019, pp. 166–167, ISBN 978-3-935791-54-0 .
  5. ↑ Axel Hinrich Murken , In Search of an Ideal World. Herbert Rolf Schlegel (1889–1972) , Leporello with numerous illustrations and a text on the biography, Herzogenrath 2015
  6. ↑ Auction results for Herbert Rolf Schlegel on artnet.de
  7. ↑ see article by Anna Pataczek, Where, if not here . In: Der Tagesspiegel , May 17, 2013, accessed on February 8, 2020
  8. ↑ Illustration of the painting “Literat WK” in the Schwules Museum, accessed on February 8, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Schlegel, Herbert Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1972
Place of death Landsberg am Lech