Nahl (artist family)

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The Nahl family brought since the 17th century always important artists in the fields of interior design, sculpture and pictorial representation unterschiedlichster way out:

  1. Matthäus Nahl (* 1618 in Finsterloh near Creglingen / Tauber ?; † 1668), court carpenter in Ansbach .
    1. Johann Samuel Nahl (* 1664 in Ansbach; † 1727 Jena) was a sculptor in Strasbourg and from 1704 court sculptor of Frederick I of Prussia in Berlin. Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences Berlin. Made several plaster sculptures for the palaces in and around Berlin.
      1. Johann August Nahl the Elder (* 1710 in Berlin; † 1781 in Kassel), interior designer, sculptor, plasterer, friend of Goethe , received his first training from his father Johann Samuel, traveled through France and Italy, stayed in Strasbourg in 1735, worked from 1741 in Berlin statues, reliefs, etc. Decorations of all kinds for the royal buildings in Charlottenburg and Potsdam and finally went to Switzerland for 9 years in 1746, where he acquired the Clanne estate near Bern. In 1755 he became a professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel and at the newly founded art academy. He and created u. a. the statue of Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Kassel. In 1801, Nahl's son was the winner of the Weimar Prize Tasks advertised by Goethe
        1. Samuel Nahl (* 1748 near Bern; † 1813 in Kassel), son of Johann August the Elder, was a professor and "councilor" at the Academy in Kassel.
          1. Johann Wilhelm Nahl , also Wilhelm Nahl (* 1803; † 1880), portrait and history painter, etcher, copyist and art collector in Kassel. Son of Samuel Nahl and third partner of Henriette Nahl.
            1. Laura Nahl († 1857), the youngest half-sister of Charles Christian Nahl, married his artistic companion Frederick August Wenderoth (* 1819 in Kassel; † 1884 in Philadelphia), a photographer, painter, lithographer and engraver who also became famous in the USA.
            2. Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (* 1833; † 1889), painter, illustrator and graphic artist. Son of Johann Wilhelm and Henriette Nahl. He studied with his half-brother Charles (then still Carl) and at the Kassel Art Academy. He accompanied Charles Christian Nahl on his further life and artist journey to Paris and America. Both became known in California as "The Nahl Brothers".
              1. Virgil Theodore Nahl (born August 30, 1876 in Alameda, California, † February 9, 1930 in San Francisco), studied art with his father Hugo Wilhelm Arthur and at the University of California, painted portraits and landscapes privately and was in his 32 years known for his illustrations as an art associate at the San Francisco Examiner. Virgil Theodore was also successful in sports: in his student days, he made it to quarterback on the football team of the University of California; later he held the championship title in lightweight boxing for the West Coast for a few years
              2. Perham Wilhelm Nahl (born January 11, 1869 in San Francisco, California, USA; † 1935 in Berkeley, California, USA), engraver, painter, lithographer, illustrator and teacher at an art college for several decades.
              3. NN. Nahl, youngest son of Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl, mining engineer and architect.
                1. Margery Nahl (* 1908; † 1997), daughter of NN. Nahl, at the age of 12 began to study in Europe in Switzerland, Rome and Florence (Academia von Martori Savini), after three years in California she continued her education at the "California College of Arts and Crafts" (CCAC) at the her uncle Perham Wilhelm Nahl taught. In 1925 she reunited with her family in Paris and continued her studies under Roger Bissière at the Académie Ranson.
          2. Alexander Theodor Nahl (* 1805; † 1875), private scholar in Kassel. Son of Samuel Nahl and brief second partner of Henriette Nahl.
        2. Johann August Nahl the Younger (* 1752 in Clanne near Bern, † 1825 in Kassel), brother of Samuel, was then a history and landscape painter, court sculptor and professor at the art academy in Kassel (1815 director of the painting class).
          1. Clementine Emilie Wepler b. Nahl (* 1783; † 1832), daughter of Johann August Nahl the Younger, married to Georg Heinrich Wepler, assessor in the district court and later district judge and director of the Kassel pawn shop. She was considered witty and occupied herself with art and poetry.
            1. Emilie Wepler , (born February 8, 1818 in Kassel; † May 24, 1893), granddaughter of Johann August Nahl the Younger through the aforementioned mother, was a writer and Hessian patriot.
          2. Georg Valentin Friedrich Nahl (* 1791; † 1857), engraver in Kassel. First husband of Henriette Nahl, b. Weikh (* 1796; † 1863); Divorce 1826.
            1. Charles Christian Nahl (* 1818; † 1878), painter, illustrator and graphic artist, studied at the academy in Kassel, emigrated with his family and his friend August Wenderoth to France (Paris) in 1846 and then on to America (New York, Sacramento, San Francisco). Son of Georg Valentin Friedrich Nahl.

literature

  • Sabine Fett, Michaela Kalusok, Ulrich Schmidt: The artist family Nahl, Rococo and Classicism in Kassel , ed. from Staatliche Museen Kassel, 1994, ISBN 3-923461-12-7 (list of all works by Johann August Nahl the Elder, Johann Samuel Nahl the Younger and Johann August Nahl the Younger in the possession of the Staatliche Museen Kassel)

Further references in NDB and ADB:

Johann Samuel Nahl

Johann August Nahl the Elder See in his own article.

Samuel Nahl

Johann August Nahl the Younger

Wilhelm Nahl

Carl Nahl See in his own article Charles Christian Nahl .

Emilie Wepler

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ? according to the NDB
  2. ↑ 1728 according to the NDB
  3. ↑ a b Nahl . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 11 . Altenburg 1860, p. 649 ( zeno.org ).
  4. ↑ Former scientific society and educational institution in Kassel, founded in 1709
  5. ↑ Brockhaus Conversations-Lexikon Vol. 3. Amsterdam 1809, p. 209.
  6. ↑ which of the two?
  7. ↑ a b c d after biography in Palmquist, page 415
  8. ↑ http://www.edanhughes.com/biography.cfm?ArtistID=1156
  9. ^ In the ADB: Fir near Zollikofen or Ostermundigen in the canton of Bern
  10. ↑ see ADB
  11. ↑ Stefan Brakensiek: Prince servants, state officials, citizens: administration and living environment of local officials in small towns in Lower Hesse (1750-1830); Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999: page 273