Hans Reichel - Artist Info

About Hans Reichel

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Hans Riechel
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    Hans Reichel (1892-1958)

    He was born in Würzburg on August 9, 1892, during a time that was marked by artistic revolutions, war and social unrest.

    A writer as well as a painter, Reichel earned his living by writing small feature articles, becoming acquainted with famed poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose poetic mysticism fascinated him. For a short time in 1918, Reichel attended a school of modern art. He met Paul Klee in 1919, when both artists had a studio at castle Werneck in Munich, an encounter which was decisive in his development as a painter. But compared to Klee's work, Reichel's work was less influenced by academical experiments, anything objective, claculating, ironic or caricaturistic.

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