Paul Bindel

Paul Bindel (born January 7, 1894 in Buckau , † May 29, 1973 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre and still life painter and professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Life

Paul Bindel, son of the general agent Paul Bindel, passed his matriculation examination at the Fürstenwall-Oberrealschule in Düsseldorf in March 1912 . From 1912 to 1918 Bindel studied at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts under Lothar von Kunowski with interruptions due to military service and commercial activity. From October 1, 1913 until the mobilization he belonged to the Lower Rhine Fusilier Regiment No. 39 . From August 1914, Paul Bindel took part in the campaigns of the First World War as a soldier, then promoted to lieutenant from March 1915, until December 1918 .

From 1920 to 1922 Bindel attended the state drawing teacher seminar and obtained the qualification as a teacher with distinction, followed by traineeship and practicing his profession at the Lessing-Oberrealschule , at the municipal high school on Rethelstraße in Düsseldorf, and other schools in Rheydt, Wipperfürth and Kleve, then in 1926 he was appointed senior teacher .

In 1923 Paul Bindel married Irene, nee Greferath. His son Werner Bindel was born on September 11, 1925.

Until 1934 Paul Bindel was a senior drawing teacher in schools, and from 1930 taught at the Düsseldorf Art Academy parallel to his school service. During this time his students included Rolf Crummenauer , Ursula Benser , Helmut Georg , Anneliese Planken and Hellmut Steinbach among others. Bindel was represented at the exhibitions of the association Das Junge Rheinland , as well as a member of the Ey circle .

Paul Bindel became a full professor at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf under the National Socialists in June 1937. At the same time, five of his works were confiscated and designated as Degenerate Art . As early as July 1937, his picture “Martinsjunge” was shown in the exhibition “Degenerate Art” in Munich . In the same room 7 on the upper floor, works by Hans Purrmann , Heinrich Nauen , Edwin Scharff and Otto Freundlich could also be seen “crammed together” . Bindel personally turned to Adolf Hitler , he "... was included with a picture in the exhibition 'Degenerate Art', Hitler should protect him against the request to apply for his removal from office himself ..." In 1936, Bindel was still concerned with the picture Football game at the art competition of the games of the XI. Participates in the Olympics in Berlin. Bindel again took part in the major exhibitions organized by the National Socialists, such as in 1942 at Der Rhein und das Reich, Düsseldorf art exhibition in the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, (Cat. No. 18) and in the same year at the Great German Art Exhibition in House of German Art , Munich (cat. No. 19), part.

The Second World War ended for Bindel after military service from 1945 to 1947 as a Soviet prisoner of war in a camp near Moscow .

Bindel was a seasoned watercolor painter who himself remained committed to the representational and painted genre pictures and flower still lifes. He taught his students in the classic academic craft. So he let the students of his painting class, who already had painting experience, work freely after the first semester. In the 1950s and 1960s this affected the artists Heinz Mack , Otto Piene , Hans Salentin , Johannes Geccelli , Raimund Girke and Walter Cüppers, among others .

In 1961 Paul Bindel's book Jugend sucht Deutschland was published . The Kuratorium Indivisible Germany approached young people and educators in the fall of 1959 to encourage young people between the ages of 12 and 25 to experience painting, sculpture, drawing, and handicraft in a competition entitled “Youth sees indivisible Germany” of the division of Germany and the hope of reunification. Participation was strong: over 80,000 works were submitted for the exhibition in the cities and in the federal states. From these works, 100 of the best were selected in order to show German readers and other countries in a representative book how the young people saw Germany at the time.

Works by Paul Bindel are in the holdings of the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf , including Johanna Ey as a Spaniard, oil paintings from around 1930.

Exhibitions (selection)

Paul Bindel is mentioned in the following exhibition catalogs:

• 1925, large art exhibition , Düsseldorf (cat. No. 2)
• 1935: Kunstverein exhibition at Judenhof, Ulm
• 1940 and 1941: Rheinische Kunstausstellung, Berlin and Danzig
• 1941, autumn exhibition of Düsseldorf artists, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (cat. No. 17)
• 1942: The Rhine and the Reich, Düsseldorf Art Exhibition, Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, (Cat. No. 18)
• 1942: Great German Art Exhibition, House of German Art, Munich, (Cat. No. 19)
• 1943: Espositione Palazzo Strozzi , guest exhibition of Düsseldorf artists in Florence (cat. No. 21)
• 1944: Spring exhibition of Düsseldorf artists, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (cat.no.26)
• 1952: Big Christmas exhibition of the visual artists v. Rhineland u. Westphalia, Kunstpalast Ehrenhof , Düsseldorf (cat.no.67)
• 1953: Big Christmas exhibition of the visual artists v. Rhineland u. Westphalia, Kunstpalast Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf (cat.no.71)
• 1954: Big Christmas exhibition of the visual artists v. Rhineland u. Westphalia, Kunstpalast Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf (Cat.No. 72)
• 1955: Art exhibition Christmas of the visual artists v. Rhineland u. Westphalia (Cat. No. 73)
• 1966: “the small format”, annual exhibition, artist association Malkasten Düsseldorf (cat. No. 103)
• 1967: “the small format”, annual exhibition, Malkasten Artists' Association, Düsseldorf (cat. No. 107)
• 1968: “the small format”, annual exhibition, Malkasten Artists' Association, Düsseldorf (cat. No. 112)
• 1968: “The small shop window”, an exhibition of the members of the paint box in the anniversary year 1986 (cat. No. 113)

literature

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .
• Paul Bindel: Youth sees Germany : selected works from a youth competition organized by the “Indivisible Germany” board of trustees. Langen / Müller, 1961, Munich, 1961
• Sandra Labs: Johanna Ey and the avant-garde of the Düsseldorf art scene , Diplomica Verlag Hamburg, 2012, ISBN 9783842881211 , pp. 24, 29, 84.

Web links

• Paul Bindel's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
• Paul Bindel on the list of artists who took part in the exhibitions of the Young Rhineland, the Rhine Group and the Rhenish Secession between 1919 and 1933
• Paul Bindel on AskArt
• Paul Bindel in list of artists with surname, first name, place of residence, at exhibition. with cat.-no. Catalogs created from the estate of Hans Schröers found ( memento from September 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Journal for the German iron and steel industry. Verein-Nachrichten Stahl und Eisen, 32nd year no. 16, from April 11, 1912: Bindel, Paul, representative of the machine and Armaturenf. before C. Louis Strubc, AG, Magdeburg-Buckau, Hütten Str. 19, Düsseldorf
2. ↑ Personal data of teachers in Prussia, Personalblatt A 223 Paul Bindel, DIPF / BBF Library for Educational History Research, page 4, accessed April 25, 2015 ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Personal data of teachers in Prussia, Personalblatt A 223 Paul Bindel, DIPF / BBF Library for Educational History Research, accessed April 22, 2015 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ The painting from 1925, depicting a boy with a lantern, in the format 77 × 73 cm came from the City Art Collection of Düsseldorf , which had bought it in 1926 for 600.00 marks. It bore the NS inventory no. 14166. His whereabouts are unknown.
5. ↑ Stephanie Barron (ed.): "Degenerate Art - The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany" , for the exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. German edition: Hirmer, Munich, 1992 ISBN 3-7774-5880-5 , pp. 65, 211
6. ↑ Friedrich Hartmannsgruber, among others: The Hitler Government , Part 4, files of the Reich Chancellery 1933–1945, there: Vm. L.s', 4.10, R. Oldenbourg, 2005 ISBN 978-348657667-2
7. ↑ Art Competitions at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Exhibition Area Hall VI, Kaiserdamm, Berlin, 1936 (English)
8. ↑ Thomas Hirsch, Inaugural dissertation: The plastic work of Hans Salentin (pdf), University of Heidelberg, accessed April 21, 2015
9. ↑ Illustrated list of the catalogs found in Hans Schröer's estate ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 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. 
10. ↑ Stadtchronik Ulm 1925–1949, source: “Ulmer Tagblatt” 1935, No. 39, p. 6 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ^ Exhibition catalog, Hanseatic City of Danzig: The exhibition was organized by the Berlin Art Service and the Society of Rhenish Artists and Friends of Art Düsseldorf. It was shown for the first time in August 1940 in Berlin, the capital of the Reich, and subsequently in Gdansk.