Discover painter, graphic artist, designer Walter Dexel

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: Dexel, Karl Maria Walther

Qualifications: painter, graphic artist, designer, art historian, author, sculptor, collagist, watercolorist, manufacturer of gouaches, academy lecturer
Dexel gaf les aan de Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule Magdeburg (1928-35).

Nationality/school: German

Born: Munich 1890-02-07

Deceased: Braunschweig 1973-06-08

This person/entity in other databases

8 hits in RKDimages as artist
14 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2 hits in RKDlibrary as author

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Biographical information

Education: autodidact

Active in

München
Florence 1912
Jena
Frankfurt am Main
Magdeburg 1928 - 1935
Berlin-Schöneberg 1936 - 1942
Weißwasser 1935 - 1936
Geislingen an der Steige 1937 - 1946

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Burger, Fritz
Groeber, Hermann
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Cézanne, Paul

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: landscape (genre), cityscape, abstraction, architecture (genre)

Medium/technique: glass

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 14 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2 hits in RKDlibrary as author

Vollmer 1953-1962
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 79
Saur 1992- , vol. 27, p. 21-22 (as: Dexel, Walter (Karl Maria Walther))
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 4, p. 537-538

Lempertz Auktion 1992; (00737) (NFM)
H. Pötzsch, 'Walter Dexel als Ankäufer 1941-1944', Provenienz & Forschung 2016 no. 1, p. 8-15

Nina Krüger, dissertatie in voorbereiding, Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Braunschweig (bron: Kunstchronik 2005/8, p. 416)

Documentation RKD

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Archive location: Archief en bibliotheek Theo en Nelly van Doesburg

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Creation date: 1991-12-03; Last modified date: 2020-04-23

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