Willy Kriegel

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Willy Kriegel (born February 23, 1901 in Dresden , †  March 20, 1966 in Starnberg ) was a German painter .

Life

After attending the district school in Dresden, Kriegel completed an apprenticeship as a draftsman in the Reinhold Lorenz arts and crafts studio in Plauen from 1915 to 1919 . From 1919 to 1921 he studied at the State Academy of Applied Arts with professors Karl Groß and Alexander Baranowsky . In 1920 he received the bronze award coin from this academy. From 1921 he was a student at the Dresden Academy , first with Professors Ferdinand Dorsch , Otto Gussmann and Otto Hettner , and finally as a master student with Oskar Kokoschka's own studio . The years after his studies were initially very artistically influenced by Kokoschka. But also at that time he was occupied with still lifes and landscapes. His pictures at that time were also shaped by the mutual influence of Otto Dix . As early as 1928, 50 of Kriegel's works were exhibited in the Galerie Neue Kunst Fides in Dresden. The gallery owner Rudolf Probst put Kriegel in a row with Paul Klee , Emil Nolde , Otto Dix, Wassily Kandinsky and August Macke , who were presented to the public here at the same time. Through his acquaintance with Gerhard Madaus , Kriegel also turned to botanically correct representations of plants; these 450 gouaches are owned by the Madaus company .

While Kokoschka had to emigrate in 1934, Kriegel had successes during the Nazi era , although he was listed as degenerate in the 1937 book “Purification of the Temple of Art - An Art-Political Combat Pamphlet” by the author Wolfgang Willrich . The Nazi Party he joined in May 1933rd He took part in the 1937 World's Fair ( Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne ) in Paris and received a gold medal. On March 30, 1941, Joseph Goebbels noted after a meeting with Kriegel: "Small visiting hour with the Dresden painter Kriegel, the Dürer of our time in flower and small animal painting." On July 1, 1943, Kriegel was appointed professor because he was a one-off I have a talent for "small painting". Since he was born with atrophy in his left leg and was therefore severely handicapped, he was exempted from military service. 19 of his works were presented at the Great German Art Exhibitions during the National Socialist era . The majority of these pictures are now in the German Historical Museum in Berlin. In 1944, in the final phase of the Second World War , he was included in the Gottbegnadetenliste , which included 1,041 artists who were important to the Nazi regime. However, there is not a single picture of Kriegel that could be described as Nazi art. Hans Grundig reported in 1957 that Kriegel had saved Otto Dix from the concentration camp with his connections.

After the war he lived on Lake Starnberg, from 1964 he was a professor at the Otto Klein School in Cologne.

Until the end of his life he was able to create oil paintings, gouaches and collages. His pictures hang in many museums, including Dresden, Leipzig, Freital. In 1949, the gallery owner Johannes Kühl estimated the paintings by Willy Kriegel as much more expensive than the paintings by Otto Dix.

Honors

  • 1920 Bronze award coin from the Dresden State Art Academy
  • 1923 Certificate of Recognition from the Dresden Art Academy
  • 1931 Albrecht Dürer Prize from the city of Nuremberg
  • 1937 Gold Medal World Exhibition Paris

Works (selection)

  • 4 times of the day
  • Portrait of Willy Eberl
  • Hofmann-Juan
  • The player
  • Moss-covered piece of wood with a snail
  • Woman in blue
  • Still life with cacti
  • night

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 339f.
  2. ^ Goebbels-Tagebücher, quoted in Klee, Kulturlexikon , p. 339.
  3. ↑ a b Willy Kriegel. House of German Art, accessed on January 24, 2016 (short biography).
  4. ^ Searching for traces in Freital , episode 3 from the film series "The New Objectivity in Dresden" for the exhibition of the same name from 2011/12, accessed on November 25, 2015
  5. ↑ Issued at the VII. GDK in Munich and shown in Die Deutsche Wochenschau No. 669.

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SURNAME Kriegel, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1966
Place of death Starnberg