Reinhold Nägele

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Bust of Reinhold Nägele in the Weißenburgpark in Stuttgart

Reinhold Nägele (born August 17, 1884 in Murrhardt , † April 30, 1972 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

As a teenager, Reinhold Nägele did an apprenticeship with his father of the same name, a decorative painter and son of the Murrhardt locksmith and MP Ferdinand Nägele . He was a student at the Dillmann Realgymnasium in Stuttgart. Then he attended the arts and crafts school in Stuttgart. 1907/1908 his works were exhibited in Berlin at Paul Cassirer ; this helped him to become better known. During the First World War in 1916 he was stationed with the Air Force Replacement Department (FEA 10) in Böblingen .

Stuttgart time

In 1923, Nägele was one of the co-founders of the Stuttgart Secession (the later Stuttgart New Secession ) and its deputy director. During this time he made friends with the artist Paul Kälberer . From 1931 on, he joined forces with this and others (e.g. Wilhelm Geyer ) in the Association of Friends of Swabian Graphic Art , which was officially dissolved in 1937 after it refused to exclude Nägele as a "Jewish" artist.

Ostracism and emigration

In 1937 a professional ban was issued. In the same year, Nägele was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts .

Nägele's Jewish wife Alice Nördlinger was no longer allowed to practice as a doctor since 1933. Nägele and his family were subject to an extensive ban on contact by the National Socialists. Only a few artist colleagues and colleagues from the Stuttgart Secession, such as Georg Alfred Stockburger and Tell Geck , kept in touch with the Nägele family.

In 1939, Nägele emigrated with his wife and three children through Paris and London to New York City via Paris and London on the mediation of his sponsor Hugo Borst (commercial director of Robert Bosch, Stuttgart) and Robert Bosch . Nägele was forced to emigrate from outside the country because he would not and could not betray his wife and children through a divorce. His secession colleagues Stockburger and Geck, on the other hand, defamed as “ degenerate artists ”, each in their own way, went into inner emigration and gave up their public life as visual artists.

Return to Stuttgart

After the death of his wife, Nägele returned to Germany in 1963, where he died in 1972. Reinhold Nägele was a member of the German Association of Artists .

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Nägele developed the old, sophisticated technique of reverse glass painting into his special pictorial medium.

He was best known for his cityscapes of Stuttgart, but also of other cities, and depictions of Swabian landscapes, but also (self) portraits and surreal images. In the USA he created cityscapes such as Times Square New York (1953).

The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart has 116 desvres exhibits in its collection. Some of his pictures are:

  • 1909: self-portrait
  • 1924: Building exhibition in Stuttgart
  • 1924: Demolition work on the old Stuttgart train station
  • 1925: street fight
  • 1926: Stuttgart station forecourt
  • 1928: Weißenhofsiedlung Stuttgart by night
  • 1930: View from the station tower onto Königstraße and surroundings at night
  • 1938: Stuttgart (from Kriegsberg) by night

Honors

  • On August 5, 1960, Reinhold Nägele was granted honorary citizenship of his native Murrhardt.
  • On September 15, 1971, a secondary school in Weinstadt was named after Reinhold Nägele.
  • On June 6, 2008, a stele with the bust of Reinhold Nägele was set up in the Weißenburgpark in Stuttgart.
  • On October 16, 2010, a street in the Stuttgart district of Killesberg was named after Reinhold Nägele.

Exhibitions

literature

Web links

Commons : Reinhold Nägele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susanne Rueß: The fate of Jewish doctors in Württemberg and Hohenzollern. Ed .: Heinz Högere / Peter Müller / Martin Ulmer. Exclusion robbery extermination. NS actors and "Volksgemeinschaft" against the Jews in Württemberg and Hohenzollern 1933 to 1945, ISBN 978-3-945414-69-9 .
  2. ↑ cf. on this: Brigitte Reinhardt, Reinhold Nägele, Dieter Hannemann: Reinhold Nägele. 1984, ISBN 3-80620296-6 , page 191.
  3. ↑ Günther Wirth: Art in the German Southwest from 1945 to the present. Hatje, Stuttgart 1982.
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Nägele, Reinhold ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  5. ↑ Monika Köhler: Down to the smallest detail. In: "Südkurier", March 1, 2018.
  6. ^ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
  7. ↑ Heidemarie A. Hechtel: Mr. Nägele is back . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . August 12, 2017, p. 24 .
personal data
SURNAME Nägele, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Murrhardt
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1972
Place of death Stuttgart