Josef Mangold

This article deals with the painter Josef Mangold. For the theologian see Joseph Mangold .

Still life with flowers

Josef (also: Joseph ) Hubert Martin Mangold (born November 11, 1884 in Cologne ; † March 28, 1937 there ) was a German painter of the New Objectivity , in his variant of Magical Realism .

Life

Mangold studied at the arts and crafts schools in Cologne and Berlin and was a member of the " Rhenish Secession ", which emerged in 1928 from the association of Das Junge Rheinland and other modern artist groups. In 1938 the artists' association was dissolved by the National Socialists.

Mangold died in 1937 at the age of 52 in a Cologne hospital. He last lived in Cologne-Arnoldshöhe (now: Cologne-Raderthal ) and was married to Ella geb. Walnut.

Works (selection)

• several still lifes, e.g. B. View (bouquet of flowers in a glass vase on a windowsill in front of a hilly landscape), nasturtiums and white carnations (in a glass vase on a table with a white tablecloth; oil on wood)
• Seashells on the beach (watercolor)
• Dune landscape ( gouache )
• Sea view (view from the window of a higher floor onto the Mediterranean square of a coastal town, open onto the sea in the background; watercolor and ink)
• Summer landscape in the Harz Mountains (view from a height of villages in a valley, a fir tree on the right edge of the picture), oil on canvas
• Chestnut bud branch (recorded in 1934 as an entry in the holdings of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne ; No. 2385)
• Self-portrait (1929/30) (documented in the holdings of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum. It is depicted on a so-called "Museum Quartet", which the association "Friends of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum" published in 1985 on the museum's holdings)

Exhibitions

Works by Mangold were represented in several nationally renowned exhibitions during his lifetime and afterwards:

• "The Rhine Group", Kunstverein Düsseldorf , 1933.
• "Magical Realism in Germany 1920–1933", Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal , 1967.
• "Realism in Painting of the Twenties", Kunstverein in Hamburg , 1968.

literature

• Mangold, Josef . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 15 .
• Josef Mangold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 313 .
• Rhenish art . In: Vossische Zeitung . March 1, 1930, p. 3.

Web links

Commons : Josef Mangold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Josef Mangold on artnet
• Josef Mangold at findartinfo
• Josef Mangold. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Death certificate no. 217 of March 29, 1937, registry office Cologne IV. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 12, 2020 . 
2. ↑ rwth-aachen.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF).  
3. ↑ dhm.de
4. ↑ kunstverein-duesseldorf.com ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF).