Renee Nele

Die Rampe

Windsbraut [de]

Eva Renée Nele (born 1932) is a German artist who works principally in goldsmithing and metal sculpture.

Life

Nele was born on 15 March 1932 in Berlin, the daughter of Arnold Bode; she grew up in Kassel.^{[1]: 300 [2]} She studied under Hans Uhlmann [de] at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and under Richard Hamilton at the Central School of Art and Design in London.^[3] She also studied at the Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut in Paris.^[2] She was a member of Situationist International until 1962.^[2] She lives in Frankfurt am Main.^[2]

From 1985 to 1990 she taught sculpture at the Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg [de] in Salzburg, Austria. She also taught at the Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt and – from 1993 – at the University of Giessen in Giessen, in Hesse.^[2]

Work

Nele participated in Documenta II, organised by her father in 1959.^{[citation needed]}

Her sculpture The Couple, made in 1961, is in the collection of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in Munich.^[1]: 300

Die Rampe, a Holocaust memorial showing faceless cloaked figures descending on a ramp from a railway goods wagon or collapsed at the foot of it, was created in 1982, and was installed on the campus of the University of Kassel in 1985. It was destroyed by arson soon after, and restored in 1987. In 2017 it was moved to the Holländischer Platz campus of the university, much of which is built on land that was formerly the site of factories of the Henschel company, which during the Second World War made extensive use of forced labour.^[4] A work titled Windsbraut is in the Dalbergplatz in Frankfurt-Höchst.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008 she was, with the cellist Frank Wolff [de], one of two recipients in that year of the Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt.^[5]

References

1. Herbert Read (1964). A Concise History of Modern Sculpture. London: Thames and Hudson.
2. "Eva Renée Nele". Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
3. Nele, E. R. (German sculptor, born 1932). Union List of Artist Names. Los Angeles, California: Getty Research Institute. Accessed February 2023.
4. [s.n.] (5 October 2017). Mahnmal "Die Rampe" am neuen Ort eingeweiht (in German). Kassel: Universität Kassel. Accessed February 2023.
5. Goethe-Plakette der Stadt Frankfurt am Main (in German). Stadt Frankfurt am Main. Accessed February 2023.