Pol Cassel

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Pol Cassel, 1928, photo by Genja Jonas
Fishing boats in Brittany, 1926
Pol Cassel: Cacti (1937)
Portrait of the photographer Genja Jonas (1926)

Pol Cassel (actually Paul Ernst Karl Cassel; born March 17, 1892 in Munich , † July 9, 1945 in Kischinew ) was a Dresden painter and graphic artist of the classical modern age .

life and work

Cassel was trained in the arts and crafts schools in Erfurt and Dresden from 1907 to 1914 . He took part in the First World War and then joined the circle of friends around Conrad Felixmüller , which also included Otto Griebel , Otto Dix and Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler . In 1921 he moved with his wife Susanna and his first son Ra from Dresden to Wehlen , where he stayed until 1938. He had a second son, Constantin.

In his summer studio in a remote quarry above Zeichen he created the natural pieces, portraits, animal pictures, flower still lifes and atmospheric landscapes in which the painter processed avant-garde trends of his time with the direct experience of nature into expressive pictures.

The takeover of power by the National Socialists ended Cassel's career in 1933. His art was classified as degenerate . Pol Cassel's pictures were represented in the exhibitions “Degenerate Art” (also “Mirror Images of Decay”) in Dresden in 1933 and “ Degenerate Art ” in Munich in 1937. At the same time, his entry into the NSDAP isolated him in his circle of friends around Otto Dix, Edmund Kesting and Eugen Hoffmann . The hoped-for official recognition failed to materialize, and the material emergency continued for him and his family. He had to earn his living as a worker in the stone quarries until he was drafted into service at the water engineering office in Pirna in 1939 . In March 1944 he was called up for military service and died in the Soviet captivity. A new beginning was therefore denied him, and so he was largely forgotten.

In terms of art history, Pol Cassel belongs to the Lost Generation and Expressive Realism .

Works (selection)

  • Susanna with a red scarf (1923) Hartwig Garnerus Collection, Munich
  • Widow (1925)
  • Ra with dog, portrait of his son Ra (1925) Hartwig Garnerus Collection, Munich
  • People in the Café (around 1926)
  • Winter with a Man (1927)
  • Freezing children
  • View from the quarry to the Elbe
  • Portrait of Mrs. Glaser (1926)

Exhibitions

  • 1919 Dresden, Emil Richter art salon , together with Otto Griebel
  • 1925 Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides , in March, together with Wilhelm Lachnit
  • 1925 Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, from July to mid-August
  • 1925 Dresden, Emil Richter Art Salon, from December 9th to January 10th 1926
  • 1926 Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, from October 6th to November
  • 1928 Erfurt, Angermuseum , from February to March
  • 1929 Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, in January
  • 1931 Dresden, Neue Galerie Ernst Arnold , in May
  • 1933 Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides
  • 1935 Freiberg, Freiberger Kunstverein, in May
  • 1950 Hanover, studio of the Kestner Museum, in December
  • 1962 Dresden, art exhibition in Kühl , December 9 to January 26, 1963
  • 1963 Dresden, art exhibition Kühl, together with Fritz Tröger
  • 1992 Dresden, art exhibition in Kühl, from March 15th to April 25th
  • 2000 Naundorf , Robert-Sterl-Haus in Saxon Switzerland
  • 2005 Pirna, City Museum , from January 29th to May 29th
  • 2005 Altenburg, Lindenau Museum , from June 18 to August 28
  • 2011/12 Dresden, Kunsthalle im Lipsius-Bau , Neue Sachlichkeit in Dresden. Painting of the twenties from Dix ​​to Querner , October 1, 2011 - January 8, 2012

literature

  • Pol Cassel . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 182 .
  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics. Hildesheim (et al.) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 195-196, 366.
  • Diegelmann, Franz-Carl (ed.), Pol Cassel 1892–1945, a Dresden painter of classical modernism. Catalog for the exhibition in the Stadtmuseum Pirna and Lindenau Museum Altenburg, Dresden 2005

Web links

Commons : Pol Cassel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation , Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 360.
personal data
SURNAME Cassel, Pol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cassel, Paul Ernst Karl (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist of classical modernism
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1945
Place of death Kishinev