Adolf Wissel

Adolf Wissel ( born April 19, 1894 in Velber, † November 17, 1973 ) was a German painter of rural - rural subjects.

Life and work

Born 1894, the son of a farmer in Velber at the time of the German Empire, Adolf Wissel attended until his GCSEs in Hanover, first the Humboldt High School, from 1911 to 1914 then the local arts and crafts school, especially under Richard Castle, the Wissel remained connected for a lifetime.

After studying the early 20s at the Art Academy in Kassel in 1924, he returned to his birthplace in Hannover Velber back. There he acquired before 1933 regional first recognition. His works are designed in a related style of New Objectivity. As a painter of " flounder ", ie the rural world, he arrived in the time of National Socialism to some successes. In particular, his 1938/39, developed picture Kalenberg peasant family has been widely exhibited and reproduced.

Wissel images were exhibited several times at the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich:

Honors

Works (excerpt)

• Self-portrait, 1930
• Sculptor August Waterbeck, 1932
• Portrait of Alexander Matting undated,
• Bauer Group (1935 )
• Erbhofbauer undated,
• Damenportrait, 1942
• Kalenberg peasant girl, 1943

Exhibitions in 1945

Quotes

• Ingeborg Bloth shows critical as the image " Kalenberg peasant family " von Wissel was treated in Nazi cultural policy and for exhibiting as secondary as it was explained in the research on the Nazi painting to a " ' prototype ' of the ideologically compliant family picture". (From: Andreas Zoller: The landscape painter Edmund Steppes ( 1873-1968 ) and his vision of a " German Art" )
• Proven Adolf Wissel has not significantly changed his style and choice of subject in 1933. Targeted adapt to the new Nazi rulers can hardly blame him. But like so many other German he was a partner and beneficiary of National Socialism in Germany. He saw himself until his death in 1973 as a non-political artist who is only pursued his profession. Whether you know it or not, whether consciously or unconsciously, with the majority of the Germans, he has supported the National Socialist system - with fatal consequences for Germany and Europe. (From: Irmela Wilcken, Claudia Rump: time travel through the region of Hannover Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg - equals 2005 page 63. ).