Otto Wilhelm Ernst Nebel (Born, December 25, 1909, Berlin

Berlin

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, died September 15, 1973, Bern, age 81) was a painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 and printmaker of the Bauhaus

Bauhaus

', commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term stood for "School of Building".The Bauhaus school was founded by...

 school. He was a friend of Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely-abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics...

 and others.

Painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

s, drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

s, linoleum cuts, woodcut

Woodcut

Woodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...

s, etc.

More popular in Europe, especially Switzerland

Switzerland

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 and Germany

Germany

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, than the U.S.

His work is sold in International Auctions.

References are from Wikipedia, German but he needs to be included in the English version!

• ZUGINSFELD". Expressionistische Dichtung zur Ächtung des Krieges, hrsg. in Herward Walden Der Sturm, Berlin 1923 sowie in Das dichterische Werk / Hrsg.: René Radrizzani. - München: Edition Text + Kritik, 1979 , in vol. 1 S.5 - S.181.
• "ZUGINSFELD. Grafik-Bilderzyklus von Otto Nebel (ab 1930 entstanden) nach der expressionistischen Dichtung zur Ächtung des Krieges, im Schweizer Bundesarchiv Bern; Lit. Bhattacharya-Stettler, Therese: Otto Nebel. - Bern: Benteli, 1982. - ISBN 3-7165-0410-6
• "UNFEIG. Eine Neun-Runen-Fuge, zur Unzeit gegeigt, hrsg. und mit einem Nachwort von Daniel Berner und Andreas Mauz, mit einem Beitrag von Oskar Pastior, mit einer Lesung durch den Autor und vier faksimilierten Runenfahnen". – Basel/Weil am Rhein: Urs Engeler Editor, 2006.
• Das dichterische Werk / Hrsg.: René Radrizzani. - München: Edition Text + Kritik, 1979 .
• Otto Nebel 1892-1973. - Thun: Kunstsammlung im Thunerhof, 1976.
• Otto Nebel Schriften zur Kunst hrsg. mit einem Geleitwort von Rene´Radrizzani; Mäander Verlag; München 1988.ISBN 3-88219-405-7.
• Der Sturm : Ausstellung. - Zürich: Kunsthaus, 1955.
• Werke : 1917-1967. - Bern: Kunsthalle, 1967.
• Worte zur rhythmischen Malerei. - Dresden: Dion-Verl., 1931.

Malerei [Bearbeiten]

• Das ganze malerische Werk Otto Nebels besteht aus rund 1.900 Ölbildern, überwiegend im Hand- und Armformat, Linolschnitte und über 4.000 Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Gouaches. Die Werke werden von der Otto-Nebel-Stiftung betreut und sind überwiegend im Schweizer Bundesarchiv gelagert und dort der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich.

Tonaufnahmen [Bearbeiten]

• "ZUGINSFELD. Expressionistische Dichtung zur Ächtung des Krieges, gesprochen von Otto Nebel, aufgenommen in Bern 1972 (rec. Bern 300772)
• "Expressionistische Dichter des Sturms - OTTO NEBEL spricht: August Stramm
  August Stramm
  August Stramm was a German poet and playwright who is considered one of the first of the expressionists. He also served in the German Army and was killed in action during World War I....
  
  , Kurt Schwitters
  Kurt Schwitters
  Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as...
  
  , Otto Nebel; rec. Wien 1962; Amadeo AVRS 2060.

Literatur [Bearbeiten]

• Bhattacharya-Stettler, Therese: Otto Nebel. - Bern: Benteli, 1982. - ISBN 3-7165-0410-6
• Liebmann, Kurt: Der Malerdichter Otto Nebel : ein Beitrag zur Philosophie der modernen Kunst. - Zürich: Orell Füssli, 1935
• Otto-Nebel-Stiftung: Otto Nebel. - Bern, 1990

External links

• Literatur von und über Otto Nebel im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek (Datensatz zu Otto Nebel • PICA-Datensatz)
• Webseite der Stiftung Otto Nebel, Bern
• ZUGINSFELD von Otto Nebel auf der Webseite des Goethe Instituts Dresden