Herbert Spangenberg - Artist Info

About Herbert Spangenberg

  • Biography

    After an apprenticeship as an ornamental painter under O. Schmarje, the German painter Herbert Spangenberg studied at the Hamburg school of applied arts under C. O. Czeschka and J. Wohlers where he made friends among others with E. Bargheer, K. Kluth and A. Fiedler. He traveled to Paris and Copenhagen.

    After a time of inward emigration during the Nazi time he joined the re-established Hamburg secession. He declined an offer of K. Hofer for a professorship in Berlin as well as the Rome prize of the Villa Massimo, but accepted the Edwin Scharff prize in 1958. Spangenberg also received numerous public commissions.

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