Karl-Heinz Schnabel

Karl-Heinz Schnabel (born December 15, 1921 in Osnabrück , † June 26, 1992 in Darmstadt ) was a German painter of the 20th century.

Life

Karl-Heinz Schnabel studied in 1941 and 1942 at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Hamburg and then switched to the Art Academy in Munich , where Adolf Schinnerer became his teacher. In 1947 he moved to Darmstadt and became a student of Paul Thesing . This was followed by a two-year course at the Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt. At Will Sohl he designed building ceramics and fresco painting and also worked in the studio of the sculptor Fritz Schwarzbeck .

A two-year stay in Paris , where he was a student of the painter Jean Jansen, was formative for Karl-Heinz Schnabel's artistic career . Since 1957 Schnabel lived in Darmstadt again. Since the early 1960s, he has been studying to study in southern France every year. Karl-Heinz Schnabel was firmly integrated into the Darmstadt artist community in the vicinity of the “Darmstadt Secession”.

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After 1945 he produced oil paintings and drawings in parallel . From the mid-1950s onwards he concentrated exclusively on oil painting and, since the 1970s, has devoted himself primarily to watercolors , alongside pastel and ink . His painting of the 1950s and 1960s was sparse and existentialist; Painted in a flatness that is reminiscent of New Objectivity . In his later work he became a colorist .

literature

• Karl-Heinz Schnabel. The early painterly work. Darmstadt Art Edition Merck, Volume 29.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2006, p. 796.