Karl Gabriel Pfeill
Karl Gabriel Pfeill (born March 7, 1889 in Neuss , † August 9, 1942 in Düsseldorf ) was a German writer .
Life
Karl Gabriel Pfeill was the son of a Catholic manufacturer from Neuss . He studied philosophy and art history at the universities of Bonn , Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich and then lived again in his home town of Neuss. In 1919, Pfeill and friends founded the White Rider Association , which characterized itself as the "Jungrheinischen Bund für Kulturrenewerung" (Jungrheinische Bund für Kulturrenewerung) and whose publications were characterized by an expressionist style, Catholic religiosity and a vague idea of the leader . The district also met Franz Johannes Weinrich . Pfeill, who earned his living as an art critic after losing his father's fortune , was u. a. befriended the Neuss artist Josef Urbach and later Otto Pankok . His literary work includes poetry and plays .
Works
- Covered by the light, the mouth of the night , The White Rider, without No. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1923
- The Eternal Day , Münster 1930
- The morning gift , Duisburg 1930
- Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia , Kevelaer 1932
- Between angels and women , Asten 1933
- Woge, Blitz and Stern , Hamburg 1942
As editor
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The white rider. The first scrapbook. On behalf of the Jungrheinischen Bund for cultural renewal. A. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1920
- August Hoff: The religious art of Johann Thorn Prikker. Series Der weisse Reiter, without number - A. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1924
literature
- Klaus Hohrath: Karl Gabriel Pfeill , Neuss 1987
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Gabriel Pfeill in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karl Gabriel Pfeill , biography and estate in the portal rheinische-literaturnachlaesse.de
- Article about Pfeill from the "Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung" from July 18, 2007
notes
- ↑ Pankok portrayed him in a woodcut in 1937. The picture hangs in the Clemens-Sels Museum Neuss
- ↑ Contributions by Peter Bauer, Max Fischer, Romano Guardini : "Liturgie als Spiel", KG Pfeill, Maximilian Maria Ströter , Werner Thormann on August Strindberg , Ernst Thrasolt , Franz Johannes Weinrich, Leo Weismantel , Konrad Weiss, Josef Winckler and others; Plates after Hermann Cossmann, Ewald Dülberg , Josef Enseling, Karl Kriete , Ewald Malzburg, Jan Thorn Prikker and Joseph Urbach
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfeill, Karl Gabriel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuss |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1942 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |