Otto Wilhelm Nebel (1892 - 1973)

Otto Wilhelm Nebel

Otto Wilhelm Nebel was a German avant-garde artist, poet, and actor. He spent his youth during the years of the First World War, which he spent on the Eastern and Western fronts of Germany. In 1918, while serving a 14-month military imprisonment in England, Nebel wrote an expressionist poem condemning the war, Zuginsfeld.

In 1919 he returned to Berlin and became acquainted with Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Georg Mouche, Kurt Schwitters and their art.

Nebel's "Middle East" series, the result of his trip to the Middle East, is well known. On 60 large-format sheets, the artist depicted figures resembling Arabic or Cyrillic letters. Later he became interested in the technique of reverse painting on glass and created bright and colorful abstract compositions on glass panels.