Werner Koal

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Werner Koal (born July 21, 1939 in Dresden , † December 7, 1990 in Mannheim ) was a German painter and sculptor.

Live and act

Werner Koal's ancestors came from the East, his mother from Russia. His father was a tropical doctor.

His artistic work was discovered in the 1970s by the gallery owner Egon Haßbecker (Eberbach). The main subjects of his works are ancient myths; Animal and human figures from fantastic worlds; Masks and demons of otherworldly spheres; strange landscapes. Koal made archetypal sculptures out of alabaster plaster.

The world art ruled in 1983: "Working from ... Werner Koal u. a. prove the fact that an event has long been taking place outside the established norms of art-historical tradition and the standards of academies and museums that reach to the roots of creativity ”.

"In Koal's pictures we encounter ... a painter personality who has to make a real contribution to naive art through a convincing personal contribution." (RNZ, October 1973)

An extensive bio-bibliographical file on Werner Koal can be found under the call number K1012 in the Geissler archive , which is kept in the Palatinate State Library.

Exhibitions

  • 12/1972: Double exhibition Two Naive . Koal - Schmidtová
  • 01/1973: (back) court book dealership "Small Gallery" Haßbeckers, Eberbach
  • 03/1973: Krefeld Gallery Krüll / exhibition of naive artists
  • 05/1973: Evening Academy Mannheim
  • 03/1974: Gallery on the Weissenhof / Weinsberg "Naive pictures and sculptures"
  • 08/1974: Exhibition in Mülben, “Open Day” with Egon Haßbecker; Koal - Schmidtová - Ennulat
  • 08/1975: Group exhibition "Naive art as self-affirmation in alienated circumstances", Eberbach

literature

  • Artis , Volume 34. Neinhaus-Verlag, 1982. p. 22
  • Otto J. Groeg: Who's who in the Arts: A Biographical Encyclopedia Containing Some 13,000 Biographies and Addresses of Prominent Personalities, Organizations, Associations and Institutions Connected with the Arts in the Federal Republic of Germany, Volume 2 . Who's Who-Book & Publ., 1978. ISBN 3-921-22022-X . P. 748
  • Thomas Grochowiak : German naive art . Recklinghausen, 1976

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weltkunst , Volume 53, 1983
  2. ↑ PDF in the Geissler archive ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lbz-rlp.de
  3. ↑ Natálie Maslikova-Schmidtová, Anežka Šimková, Galerie výtvarného umění v Chebu, Muzeum umění Olomouc: Já su stěhovavý pták: Natálie Maslikova-Schmidtová, 1895–1981 . Muzeum umění Olomouc, 2006. p. 136
personal data
SURNAME Koal, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 7th December 1990
Place of death Mannheim