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Herbert Kitzel BIOGRAPHY
1928 Halle, Germany - 1978 Karlsruhe, Germany. Known for: Representational, figurative style featuring artists, jugglers, harlequins, and melancholic Pierrots..
Herbert Kitzel was a German artist who studied at Burg Giebichenstein from 1945 to 1950 and became one of the most important representatives of the "Halle Gray" movement. He developed his own... Read full biography
Herbert Kitzel was a German artist who studied at Burg Giebichenstein from 1945 to 1950 and became one of the most important representatives of the "Halle Gray" movement. He developed his own representational, figurative style in the early 1950s, featuring artists, jugglers, harlequins, and... Read full biography
Herbert Kitzel was a German artist who studied at Burg Giebichenstein from 1945 to 1950 and became one of the most important representatives of the "Halle Gray" movement. He developed his own representational, figurative style in the early 1950s, featuring artists, jugglers, harlequins, and melancholic Pierrots, which were reminiscent of influences from Picasso, Beckmann, and Rouault. His early works reflected themes of death, the tragedy of human existence, and the powerlessness of man under... Read full biography
Herbert Kitzel was a German artist who studied at Burg Giebichenstein from 1945 to 1950 and became one of the most important representatives of the "Halle Gray" movement. He developed his own representational, figurative style in the early 1950s, featuring artists, jugglers, harlequins, and melancholic Pierrots, which were reminiscent of influences from Picasso, Beckmann, and Rouault. His early works reflected themes of death, the tragedy of human existence, and the powerlessness of man under dictatorship against the background of the state-controlled art business. In 1958, he moved to Karlsruhe and received a professorship at the State Academy of Fine Arts in 1962. Although he achieved great artistic success in numerous solo exhibitions... Read full biography
Herbert Kitzel was a German artist who studied at Burg Giebichenstein from 1945 to 1950 and became one of the most important representatives of the "Halle Gray" movement. He developed his own representational, figurative style in the early 1950s, featuring artists, jugglers, harlequins, and melancholic Pierrots, which were reminiscent of influences from Picasso, Beckmann, and Rouault. His early works reflected themes of death, the tragedy of human existence, and the powerlessness of man under dictatorship against the background of the state-controlled art business. In 1958, he moved to Karlsruhe and received a professorship at the State Academy of Fine Arts in 1962. Although he achieved great artistic success in numerous solo exhibitions and was honored in a retrospective in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in 1974, life in the West remained alien to Kitzel. In August 1978, he took his own lif... Read full biography
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Herbert Kitzel was a German artist who studied at Burg Giebichenstein from 1945 to 1950 and became one of the most important representatives of the "Halle Gray" movement. He developed his own representational, figurative style in the early 1950s, featuring artists, jugglers, harlequins, and melancholic Pierrots, which were reminiscent of influences from Picasso, Beckmann, and Rouault. His early works reflected themes of death, the tragedy of human existence, and the powerlessness of man under dictatorship against the background of the state-controlled art business. In 1958, he moved to Karlsruhe and received a professorship at the State Academy of Fine Arts in 1962. Although he achieved great artistic success in numerous solo exhibitions an...But wait, there's more...
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