Paul Heinrich Ebell
Paul Heinrich Ebell (born October 5, 1908 in Charlottenburg , † November 4, 1998 in Kißlegg ) was a German painter, graphic artist and art teacher.
Life
Born in Charlottenburg, Paul Heinrich Ebell grew up in Haynau in Lower Silesia .
He studied at the State Academy for Art and Applied Arts in Breslau , then at the State Art School in Berlin , the workshop for teachers in Leipzig and at the universities in Breslau and Leipzig. His artistic teachers included Paul Dobers , Paul Holz , Georg Muche , Otto Mueller and Oskar Schlemmer .
Ebell lived in Berlin from 1932 to 1940. From 1940 to 1945 he was a soldier.
After the war, he began to teach in Bad Waldsee in Upper Swabia at the local high school (initially Progymnasium) as an art teacher and at the same time set up as a freelance artist. Paul Heinrich Ebell was married to the photographer Ursula Ebell-Schwager .
He was a board member of the Oberschwaben-Bodensee secession and a member of the East German Artists Guild .
Services
Paul Heinrich Ebell developed from an initially symbolist-gloomy and graphically determined approach, an oil painting that unfolds a highly differentiated chromaticism in a lyrical-abstract language of forms, which offers and differentiates idiosyncratic sounds in the individual color tones as well as in the color harmonies and color clusters Color perception enabled.
The images remain objectively bound (with a few exceptions). Everyday life (not infrequently as stations of the annual cycle), impressions from trips, memories of the lost past form the fund of his iconography.
The color surfaces of his oil paintings, which are often impasto and painted with a spatula, are structured by decidedly set shapes and form grids, so that the delicacy of the colors corresponds to a powerful design.
This favored the creation of an extensive work of woodcuts, which, in the simple contrast of black on white, tends to appear signal-like and symbolic, but which in turn is softened into the poetic by a melodious outline interrupted by staccato.
This integration of a powerful, sometimes raw shape and a fine color and melodic lines provided him with a good basis for designing numerous art-in-building projects, which he carried out as glass windows, mosaics, iron cuts and concrete reliefs.
Ebell's late work consists mainly of watercolors, with which he executed his preferred subjects in a more colorful and formally confident manner.
As an art teacher he taught in an idiosyncratic and formative way. Some of his students were able to establish themselves as artists and art historians ( Heiner Dilly , Axel Otterbach , Richard Allgaier , Elisabeth Klass , Jörg Eberhard ).
Works (selection)
- Mosaic Johanneskirche Billensbach near Heilbronn 1956
- Glass concrete wall Bad Waldsee, Elisabethenbad
- Reute glass concrete wall, school
- Iron cut Bad Waldsee, Döchtbühlschule
- Concrete relief Bad Waldsee, high school
- Concrete wall Altshausen, St. Joseph
literature
- Jacobsen, Jens Peter: Two worlds. From the sketchbook. With drawings by Paul Heinrich Ebell, Lindau, Thorbecke, 1948
- Paul Heinrich Ebell, Schlosshofgalerie Ewald Schrade, Kisslegg, 1976
- Greeting cards for friends, catalog for the exhibition in the small gallery in the Elisabethenbad in Bad Waldsee, 1980
- Summer in Bourlebeau, Ludwigsburg, Edition Martin Hoch jr, 1969
Web links
- culture-portal-west-east [1]
- www.galerie-schrade.de [2]
- www.suedwestdeutsche-kunststiftung.de [3]
- www.oberschwaben-portal.de [4]
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Dorothee L. Schaefer: Memory for a Bad Waldsee artist . In: Schwäbische Zeitung , September 3, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ebell, Paul Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1998 |
| Place of death | Kisslegg |