Peter Nagel (painter)

Peter Nagel (born April 6, 1941 in Kiel ) is a German painter . From 1985 to 2004 he was professor of painting at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel.

life and work

Nagel studied from 1960 to 1965 at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts with Carl Heinz Wienert , Karl Kluth and Johannes Geccelli . In 1965 he founded the ZEBRA group with Dieter Asmus , Nikolaus Störtenbecker and Dietmar Ullrich . After studying in London in 1966 and receiving a scholarship from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo in 1967, he worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist. In 1977 he was awarded the Culture Prize of the City of Kiel. From 1985 to 2004 he was professor of painting at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel . Peter Nagel has been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg since 1981 . In 1995 he became curator of the Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein Art Foundation .

Nagel's painting is part of the New Realism trend , the appearance of his art as a result between photography and graphics.

Peter Nagel has been a member of the German Association of Artists since 1969 (on the board from 1983 to 1988). He lives in Kleinflintbek near Kiel and in Tuscany . He is married to the painter Hanne Nagel-Axelsen (* 1942). Both are members of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg .

Exhibitions

• 1967: Schleswig-Holstein State Museum Schloss Gottorf , Schleswig
• 1967: Vejen Museum (Denmark)
• 1971: Galerie van de Loo , Munich
• 1976: Studio Jaeschke , Bochum
• 1978: Schleswig-Holstein Art Association in the Kunsthalle Kiel
• 1981: Mannheim Art Association
• 1982: Studio Jaeschke , Bochum
• 1993: Silkeborg Art Museum (Denmark)
• 1994: Fåborg Art Museum (Denmark)
• 1997: Art Association Emsdetten
• 1998: Kunstforeningen Nykobing (Denmark)
• 2001: polarities. Rolf-Gunter Dienst - Peter Nagel , Schleswig-Holstein Art Association in the Kunsthalle Kiel; Bayreuth Art Museum
• 2005: Kunstverein Region Heinsberg , anniversary exhibition, 20 × 20
• 2006: The early work , Richard Haizmann Museum Niebüll
• 2006: Animal pleasure , Landeshaus Kiel with Hanne Nagel-Axelsen
• 2010: Peter Nagel, 50 years of painting , Stadtgalerie Kiel
• 2012: Nail old and brand new , Galerie Eva Poll , Berlin

Prices

• 1969: Art Prize of the German Academy in Rome, Villa Massimo
• 1969: Prize of the German Federal Government Premio Fiorino, Florence
• 1969: 1st prize at the International Triennial for Colored Printmaking, Grenchen (Switzerland)
• 1976: Prize from the District President of Freiburg im Breisgau
• 1977: Culture Prize of the City of Kiel
• 1983: Winner of Artists' Flags for Europe, Mannheim
• 2011: Order of Merit of the State of Schleswig-Holstein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 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. (accessed on November 19, 2015) 

literature

• Kunstverein Darmstadt: German contemporary erasers. Darmstadt art gallery. Editor Dorit Marhenke. Athenaeum, Königstein / Ts. 1982, ISBN 3-7610-8121-9 , pp. 124f.
• Uwe Hauptenthal: Nail before nail. Peter Nagel's early work. Verlag der Kunst, Husum 2006, ISBN 3-86530-082-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Nagel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Nagel's website
• Catalog animal pleasure , Landeshaus Kiel , 2001, with Hanne Nagel-Axelsen