Wilhelm Nagel - Artist Info

About Wilhelm Nagel

  • Biography

    Wilhelm Nagel (born June 23, 1866 in Mannheim, † June 4, 1945 in Baden-Baden) was a German painter.

    He first attended the Munich School of Applied Arts and then worked as a lithographer in Lahr. From 1886 to 1898 he studied at the Karlsruhe Art Academy with Ernst Schurth, Theodor Poeckh and Caspar Ritter, interrupted in 1890/91 by one year at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt am Main.

    In 1898/99 he was a master student of Ferdinand Keller in Karlsruhe. Then he worked as a freelance artist. From 1910 to 1922, as the successor to Max Wilhelm Roman, he headed the landscape class at the school for female painters in Karlsruhe. In 1911 he was given the title of professor.

    Nagel was mainly active as a landscape painter, espe...

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