Reinhold Nagele - Artist Info

About Reinhold Nagele

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Reinhold Naegele
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    Reinhold Nägele studied under his father, who was a stage painter, and then progressed to the art school in Stuttgart. The Great War interrupted his work but he re-established himself as an active member of the art scene in Stuttgart in 1919.

    In 1923 he was a co-founder of the Stuttgart Secession and joined the Vereinigung der Freunde schwäbischer Grafik [Association of Friends of Swabian Graphic Art], which broke up in 1937 after a dispute concerning Nägele's wife' Jewish faith.

    It was their marriage, illegal under Nazi law, which caused the breakup of the Vereinigung der Freunde schwäbischer Grafik and his eventual emigration to the United States.

    Nägele left for the United St...

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