Kay H. Nebel

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Kay Heinrich Nebel (* 1. April 1888 in Loitmarkhof in Kappeln ; † 17th January 1953 in Kassel ) was a German painter of the New Objectivity .

Life

Nebel was born the first of ten children to a shoemaker. He spent his youth in Kappeln, where the family had moved. From 1895 to 1903 he attended elementary school and also had to contribute to the nutrition of the family by doing odd jobs. After an apprenticeship as an art and decorative painter in Hamburg, which he graduated with honors, Nebel studied at the school of the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin . There he was supported above all by his teacher Max Friedrich Koch , who also involved him in wall paintings and gave him commissions. Study trips took him to Paris and Italy in 1911/12 . In 1913 he accompanied an expedition led by Hans Schomburgk to Liberia, West Africa, Togo and Sudan. 1

After serving at the front in the First World War from 1914 to 1918, he was offered a position as a teacher for figurative drawing at the Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt . As a member of the "Darmstädter Sezession" Nebel exhibited in their exhibitions. In 1926 - on behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Culture - he painted the conference room of the Schleswig district council monumentally with local motifs, the country and the people on the Schlei. His artistic activity during the National Socialist era has not yet been rated in the research literature. Nebel was not considered a “degenerate artist”.

From 1921 to 1953 Nebel taught at the State Art Academy in Kassel , which he took over in 1948. Hans Werdehausen and Leo Grewenig were among his better-known students there .

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With his work he was one of the most important representatives of the New Objectivity . His participation in the eponymous exhibition in Mannheim in 1925 earned him great recognition. In addition to painting, drawing and graphics, commissioned wall paintings were also created.

His works also include a triptych entitled Tropen , which was shown in the Kassel art exhibition in the orangery in 1922 . Another triptych with the title Africa was shown in the first exhibition of the Darmstadt Secession. The painting Motherhood was shown in an exhibition in Darmstadt in 1920.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Arndt: Kay H. Nebel: a painter of the "New Objectivity". Wachholtz, 1975, ISBN 3-529-02537-2 , p. 90.
  2. ↑ Kay Heinrich Nebel darmstaedtersezession.de.
  3. ↑ Uwe Fleckner , Dirk Luckow : The true face of our time: Images of people in the drawing of the New Objectivity. Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 2004, p. 152.
  4. ↑ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, p. 671 f.
  5. ^ Cassel Art Exhibition 1922 - in the Orangery Castle in the Karlsaue from June 3rd to August 27th . Kassel 1922, p. 11 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ Alexander Koch: German art and decoration . tape 45 . A. Koch, Darmstadt 1920, p. 138-139 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Alexander Koch: German art and decoration . tape 46 . A. Koch, Darmstadt 1920, p. 206 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Nebel, Kay H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nebel, Kay Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Loitmarkhof , near Kappeln
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1953
Place of death kassel