Ferdinand Spindel (1913-1980) - Abstrakte komposition

Medium: mixed techniques (litho, watercolor, pastel, gouache)
Dating: 1963
Numbered
Signed: with a pencil
In reasonably good condition, with beautiful fresh colors — some vertical craquelure.
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Ferdinand Spindel (born January 31, 1913, in Essen; died August 17, 1980, in Neuenkirchen near Soltau) was a German artist who worked as a painter, sculptor, and object artist.

Life and Work


Sculpture Untitled or Come, Become, and Pass Away at the Main Cemetery in Witten (1960)
Spindel initially trained as a commercial graphic designer with Max Burchartz at the Essen Folkwang School starting in 1932. Between 1935 and 1944, he worked as a book illustrator for various Berlin publishers. He illustrated at least 18 youth books. From 1940, he worked for the publisher Junge Generation, Berlin-Lichterfelde, illustrating 13 youth books, mostly Nazi economic literature. The most well-known of these books is Erntelager Geyer by Otfried Preußler, who later became known as a children's book author.

In 1945, he moved to Wilhelmshaven, and in 1947, he began working as a freelance artist. In 1950, he moved to Essen and had been a member of the Halfmannshof artists' settlement in Gelsenkirchen since 1963, where he served as chairman from 1970 to 1973. In the 1960s, he was in close contact with the artists of the ZERO group and discovered foam rubber as a working material. In 1969, he was a founding member of the artist group B1. In 1973, he moved to Neuenkirchen in the Lüneburg Heath. He traveled to places including Paris, Prague, New York, and Moscow, and exhibited at numerous renowned venues, including the Kunsthalle Bremen.

Spindel was a member of the German Artists' Association.