Valentin Nagel
Valentin Nagel (born April 12, 1891 in Germersheim , Palatinate, † January 8, 1942 in Munich ) was a German painter of synthetic cubism and the new objectivity .
Valentin Nagel was obliged to do military service between 1916 and 1918 . Nothing is known about his early artistic training; from around 1925 to 1928 he attended the school for fine arts of the important art teacher Hans Hofmann in Munich .
Under the restrictive measures of the National Socialists, Valentin Nagel last lived in total seclusion in Salzburg and died in Munich in 1942.
His fate may be considered as exemplary of a generation of artists who by the First World War, the Great Depression and Nazism with Jewish persecution , radical art defamation of innovative modernity was coined and ostracism talented creative artists.
Valentin Nagel's artistic work did not exist in the public perception until the collector Gerhard Schneider , inspired by a "chance find", became aware of him in the mid-1980s and researched his life and work.
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In Hans Hofmann's class at the Munich School of Fine Arts, Valentin Nagel was confronted with the tendencies of modernism. His art is based on synthetic cubism, which he combines in some works with design features of the New Objectivity . In this respect he has a unique position.
literature
- Nikolaus Schaffer: Valentin Nagel. 1891–1942 (= monographic series on Salzburger Kunst 8, ZDB -ID 2011644-5 ). With a contribution by Gerhard Schneider and catalog raisonné. Salzburg Museum Carolino-Augusteum, Salzburg 1988.
- Nikolaus Schaffer: Valentin Nagel. In: Weltkunst. Vol. 58, No. 14, July 15, 1988, ISSN 0043-261X , pp. 2044f.
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| SURNAME | Nagel, Valentin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Germersheim , Palatinate |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1942 |
| Place of death | Munich |