Charles Crodel

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Charles Crodel
Born(1894-09-16)September 16, 1894
Marseille, France
DiedNovember 11, 1973(1973-11-11) (aged 79)
Munich, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Known forPainting, Stained glass art

Charles Crodel (September 16, 1894 – November 11, 1973) was a German painter and stained glass artist.

Nadar
, Marseille 1905

Life

Crodel was born in Marseille, he studied in 1914 with Richard Riemerschmid, one of the founders of the Deutscher Werkbund, at the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule and since 1915 at the University of Jena, while he became painter and lithographer. He was a member of the Berlin Secession and of the executive board of the Jena art-union and became a close friend of Gerhard Marcks. In 1923, the German National Gallery of Art at Berlin and later the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris bought first his woodcuts and lithographies. A mural in the University of Jena, another in the Weimar Schlossmuseum, bought by Wilhelm Köhler,[1] and a third in Erfurt remain of that time.

From 1927 on, Crodel taught printing and monumental painting at the "Burg Giebichenstein", the Academy of Arts and Crafts in

Goethe in 1932 at Bad Lauchstädt were destroyed in summer 1933 and had been ejected from the gleichgeschaltet (Nazi sympathetic Arts organisation) group for creating Degenerate art. At this time many refugees brought Crodels paintings and prints, which now are found at Louisville, The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Luther College
, Decorah.

The following years Crodel found new fields of work. He designed glass decoration in Industry (together with

stained-glass and to design mosaics
.

In 1945, Crodel again taught at Halle, but also at the Berlin Academy of Arts and Dresden, and from 1952 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, which had been brought together with the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule in 1947. He also became a member of the renewed Deutscher Künstlerbund and Deutscher Werkbund.

From 1958 on Crodel also several times was invited as visiting professor to the

Penn State and Louisville Universities.[4] Among his students were Bob Thompson[5] and Sam Gilliam.[6]

Stained glass

Crodel's stained-glass windows are found in Germany and in Sweden. Beautiful examples are found in the Frankfurt city churches,

St. Jacobi, Hamburg, St. Mary's Church, Fuhlsbüttel, Hamburg, St. Matthew's Church, Hamburg, St. Michael's Church, Hildesheim, St. John's Church, Lüneburg, Schmalkalden
.

Returning from a session of the Berlin Academy of Arts, Crodel died in 1973 in Munich, at the age of 79.

Exhibitions

University of Louisville: Allen R. Hite Art Institute: Paintings and Graphic Work by Charles Crodel, October 6–28, 1958. Introduction by Justus Bier[8] and Senta Bier.[9]

Portraits

Bibliography

  • Carl Crodel. Malerei – Graphik – Kunsthandwerk. (Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle, 27. Juli – 10. Oktober 1982, Galerie am Fischmarkt Erfurt, 19. Dezember 1982 – 13. Februar 1983). Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle 1982.
  • Cornelius Steckner: "Ch. Crodel. Kunst, Handwerk, Industrie". Kulturamt der Stadt Hannover, Hannover 1983.
  • Cornelius Steckner: Charles Crodel. Das graphische Werk. Ketterer, München 1985.
  • Horst Ludwig: Münchner Maler im 19./20. Jahrhundert. Vol. 5: Achmann-Kursell. Bruckmann, München 1993,
    ISBN 3-7654-1805-6
    , S. 157–160.
  • Katja Schneider: Charles Crodel – Kunsthandwerk. Zum 100. Geburtstag. Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle, 16. September – 27. November 1994. Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle 1994,
    ISBN 3-86105-116-8
    .

References

  1. ISBN 90-256-0619-9
    .
  2. ^ "Crodel-Glas - charlescrodel". Archived from the original on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
  3. ^ Hedwig Bollhagen, FemBio.org, retrieved 14 April 2014
  4. ^ "UofL - Charles Crodel (1894-1973) papers". Archived from the original on 2005-12-01. Retrieved 2005-11-02.
  5. ^ Statement by Charles Crodel, in: Bob Thompson (1937-1966) Memorial exhibit, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky 1971.
  6. ISBN 978-0-578-43365-3
    .
  7. ^ "Kirchen (Churches) - Frankfurt am Main". Archived from the original on 2005-10-30. Retrieved 2005-11-02.
  8. ^ "Paintings and graphic work by Charles Crodel". Catalog of an exhibition of work by Charles Crodel presented by the University of Louisville, Allen R. Hite Institute, October 6–28, 1958 digital; Justus Bier.
  9. ^ Selected works from the University collection, 1978/1979, no. 37: Charles Crodel, Wilhelm Worringer und Herbert Koch, Morris B. Belknap, Jr. Bequest Fund, 1958.
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