Otto Nebel was a German painter born in Berlin, Germany.
39 Facts About Otto Nebel
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Otto Nebel took acting classes at the Lessingtheater in Berlin until 1914.
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Otto Nebel's acting teachers were the famous Rudolf Blumner and Friedrich Kayssler.
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Otto Nebel wanted to give his debut at Stadttheater Haben when World War I broke out.
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Otto Nebel spent the years of war on the German Eastern and Western Fronts.
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Otto Nebel joined the circle around Herwarth Walden and his wife Nell Walden.
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Otto Nebel initiated his collaboration at the Sturm gallery and the art school Der Sturm.
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Otto Nebel married Hildegard Heitmeyer, the assistant of Gertrud Grunow, in 1924.
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Otto Nebel had financial problems because he was not allowed to work in Switzerland.
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Otto Nebel was in touch with well-known artists and writers during the disoriented post-war era of inflation.
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Otto Nebel lived in precarious conditions and, among other jobs, took on commissions in order to survive.
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Otto Nebel executed them for his poem "Unfeig", which is a pivotal work for his notions about the alphabet.
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Otto Nebel understood characters or runes as independent linguistic entities whose sound or acoustic and visual dimensions were the key part of an artwork.
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Otto Nebel compared his endeavors with those of an orchestra conductor who "rehearses" a score with an orchestra.
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Otto Nebel untiringly demanded of spectators that they open themselves up to the "resonating tons" of the pictures they view.
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Around 1926 to 1928 Otto Nebel was often in the Bavarian village of Kochel, not far from Murnau.
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Otto Nebel loved to regularly visit Ascona in Switzerland as well.
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Otto Nebel produced numerous wallpaper designs at the time, and was able to utilize them repeatedly for his collages at later dates.
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Otto Nebel was additionally invited to exhibit in Ascona together with the artist's group Der grosse Bar.
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Otto Nebel "portrayed" the objects by their color-values and "sounds" - whether it was paint on house walls or fishing boats, whether olive or pine groves, mountain ranges or beaches.
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Ultimately, Otto Nebel compiled a "psycho-historical" catalogue by classifying certain colors according to personal optical impressions, and with the resulting scales he laid the basis for his future work.
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Otto Nebel had several artists representing the "new art" in her program, and among them was Wassily Kandinsky.
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Otto Nebel had especially Kandinsky's recommendation to thank for the Guggenheim's support, as well as the goodwill of his friend from his first years in Berlin, Hilla von Rebay, who was the initiator and administrator of the Guggenheim Foundation.
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Today, 36 works of art by Otto Nebel dating from 1936 to 1948 still belong to the Guggenheim Museum collection in New York.
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In 1962, Otto Nebel travelled by boat to the Near East via Dubrovnik and Mykonos to Istanbul, Sochi, and Bursa.
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Otto Nebel considered them to be visual runic narratives that were closely related to his literary texts.
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Later Otto Nebel corresponded in particular with Lothar Schreyer and Georg Muche.
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Kandinsky and Otto Nebel exchanged a wealth of letters and thereby left ample proof of their friendship.
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Otto Nebel included cuttings from his linocuts in his papiers colles and collages.
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Otto Nebel recited war-injured, mutilated sentences; sentences which were hit by gunfire and broken into words, single words of protest, bleeding into sounds.
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Immediately after his return from war, Otto Nebel joined Herwarth Walden's avant-garde group 'Der Sturm'.
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Otto Nebel was not at all known to the West Coasts before the exhibition of s small selection of this paintings in the Raboff Gallery.
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One cannot deny that some of Otto Nebel's paintings have a family likeness to Klee and Kandinsky, but in the way Gris' and Braque's cubist paintings have a family likeness to those of Picasso of the same period.
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Otto Nebel is neither a spontaneous action painter, nor a primitive.
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Otto Nebel knows his craft, based upon a sound knowledge of color theories.
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Each work of art, says Otto Nebel, is an image of the artist's mental development and transformation.
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Otto Nebel expresses his idealistic philosophy of art in dithyrambic sentences, which defy direct literary translation, in a book with 24 reproductions of his paintings, drawings and prints: "Worte zu Bildern".
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Otto Nebel searched for, and found, an archetype of expression in a so-far-undiscovered world of forms.
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Otto Nebel explains this attempt to counteract the lack of expression in the outworn language of our time.