Wilhelm Dodel (painter)

Wilhelm Dodel: Portrait ES ( Sanitätsrat Dr. Schmorl )

Wilhelm Dodel (born February 11, 1907 in Moscow , † January 22, 1944 in Grustinja, Soviet Union) was a German painter . He worked in Dresden as a representative of the New Objectivity .

Life

Dodel was born in Moscow to a wealthy family of German sales representatives. With the outbreak of World War I , the family was interned in Ufa in the southern Urals . In 1918 the family was able to move to Germany and settled in Dresden. There he got to know the editors of the school magazine Mob at the Wettiner Gymnasium , including editor Rudolf Braune . In 1926 he was dismissed prematurely because of his left political attitude and worked as a theater painter at the Dresden Alberttheater and at the Landestheater Beuthen . In 1927 and 1928 he studied decorative painting with Paul Rößler at the Academy for Applied Arts in Dresden. In 1928 and 1929 he continued his training with Richard Müller at the Dresden Art Academy . This was followed by training with Otto Dix from 1929 to 1933 , most recently as a master class student . During this time he was a member of a revolutionary student group at the art academy, became a member of the Communist Party (KPD) and the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists (ASSO). He also got to know the painter Curt Querner , his future brother-in-law. In 1933, after the Nazis came to power, he was briefly arrested while painting slogans.

In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and then took part in the Second World War. He was later used as an interpreter in the occupied Soviet Union . Until his death at the beginning of the Leningrad-Novgorod operation in the Volkhov region , he was artistically active to a limited extent and left behind portrait drawings of Russian people with great charisma.

Create

Very few works of his work have survived. This is due, on the one hand, to the large proportion of short-lived agitation and theater painting up to the beginning of the 1930s, and on the other hand to the early death in the war with almost simultaneous destruction of his work in the studio by the bombing of Dresden .

Works

Man with propped arm ; 1928; 53 cm x 40.8 cm; coal
Kohlträger Max (Berlin, State Museums (National Gallery)); 51 cm × 28 cm; oil on wood
Family portrait (with self-portrait) (lost); around 1930; Oil on canvas
Self-portrait with a dog rose (Cologne, private collection); around 1930, 169.5 cm × 88 cm, oil on canvas.
Still life with quinces ; around 1933; 44.3 cm × 45.6 cm; Oil on canvas mounted on a wooden panel
My mother ; around 1934/35, 79.8 cm × 60 cm; oil on wood
Portrait ES (Medical Councilor Dr. Schmorl) ; 1935; 105 cm × 101 cm; Oil and tempera on panel
Young woman in red dress ; around 1936; 103 cm × 61 cm; oil
Portrait of Leiteritz ; 1937; 25.5 cm × 17.5 cm; oil on wood
Rosemary ; 1939; 125 cm × 84 cm; oil on wood
Elbe-Venus ; 1940; 146.5 cm x 100.5 cm; oil on wood
Vandy ; 1940; 29.2 cm x 40.3 cm; watercolor
Vouziers ; 1940; 31.5 cm × 48 cm; watercolor
Self-portrait ; 1942; 27.4 cm × 20.6 cm; watercolor
Finnish girl ; 1942; watercolor
Finnish girl Ssaima; 1942; 27.5 cm × 20 cm; colored tinted drawing
Landscape with houses ( Mestelewo ) ; 1942; 29 cm × 41 cm; drawing
Girl's head with blonde pigtails ; 1942; 28 cm × 20 cm; washed drawing
Young woman with braided hair ; 1943; 41.6 cm × 35.7 cm; Graphite and red chalk

Exhibitions

New objectivity in Dresden. State Art Collections Dresden New Masters Gallery , Dresden 2011.

literature

Hannelore Gärtner: A belated necrology. About the work of the Dresden painter Willi Dodel, Bildende Kunst , 1964 issue 12, pp. 647 - 651
Gert Claußnitzer: Wilhelm Dodel , Verlag der Kunst , series "Painter and Work", Dresden 1981.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Dodel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Wilhelm Dodel in the catalog of the German National Library
Search for Wilhelm Dodel (painter) in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Self-portrait with a dog rose. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , accessed on October 9, 2018 .
↑ Young woman in a red dress (Margaret Leiteritz). Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , accessed on October 9, 2018 .
^ Wilhelm Dodel: Vandy. Deutsche Fotothek , 1940, accessed on October 19, 2018 .
^ Wilhelm Dodel: Vouziers. Deutsche Fotothek , 1940, accessed on October 19, 2018 .
↑ William Dodel: Finn girls Ssaima. Ssaima Nikkazemen, Finnish girl in Mestelewo . Deutsche Fotothek , August 31, 1942, accessed on October 19, 2018 .
^ Wilhelm Dodel: Landscape with Houses. Deutsche Fotothek , August 1942, accessed on October 19, 2018 .
↑ Wilhelm Dodel: girl's head with blonde braids. Deutsche Fotothek , August 1942, accessed on October 19, 2018 .
^ Wilhelm Dodel: Girl with strong red braids. Deutsche Fotothek , July 15, 1943, accessed on October 19, 2018 .
↑ Birgit Dalbajewa (Ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Exhibition catalog. Sandstein Verlag , Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 160, 164 f., 198 f .

personal data
SURNAME	Dodel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter of the New Objectivity
DATE OF BIRTH	February 11, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	January 22, 1944
Place of death	Grustinja

[1] Self-portrait with a dog rose. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , accessed on October 9, 2018 .

[2] Young woman in a red dress (Margaret Leiteritz). Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , accessed on October 9, 2018 .

[3] Wilhelm Dodel: Vandy. Deutsche Fotothek , 1940, accessed on October 19, 2018 .

[4] Wilhelm Dodel: Vouziers. Deutsche Fotothek , 1940, accessed on October 19, 2018 .

[5] William Dodel: Finn girls Ssaima. Ssaima Nikkazemen, Finnish girl in Mestelewo . Deutsche Fotothek , August 31, 1942, accessed on October 19, 2018 .

[6] Wilhelm Dodel: Landscape with Houses. Deutsche Fotothek , August 1942, accessed on October 19, 2018 .

[7] Wilhelm Dodel: girl's head with blonde braids. Deutsche Fotothek , August 1942, accessed on October 19, 2018 .

[8] Wilhelm Dodel: Girl with strong red braids. Deutsche Fotothek , July 15, 1943, accessed on October 19, 2018 .

[9] Birgit Dalbajewa (Ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Exhibition catalog. Sandstein Verlag , Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 160, 164 f., 198 f .