Die Rampe, Mahnmal, Detail, Kassel, E R Nele

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 Arnold Bode (23 December 1900 – 3 October 1977) was a German architect, painter, designer and curator. Arnold was born in Kassel, Germany. From 1928 to 1933, he worked as a painter and university lecturer in Berlin. However, when the Nazis ca ...

; she grew up in

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

. She studied under at the

Akademie der Künste The Academy of Arts (german: Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany. The Academy's predecessor organization was fo ...

in Berlin and under Richard Hamilton at the Central School of Art and Design in London. She also studied at the Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut in Paris. She was a member of

Situationist International The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution ...

until 1962. She lives in Frankfurt am Main. From 1985 to 1990 she taught sculpture at the in Salzburg, Austria. She also taught at the Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt and – from 1993 – at the University of Giessen in Giessen, in Hesse.

Work

Nele participated in ''

Documenta ''documenta'' is an exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. The ''documenta'' was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Horticultura ...

II'', organised by her father in 1959. Her sculpture ''The Couple'', made in 1961, is in the collection of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in Munich. ''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 Arson is the crime of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property. Although the act of arson typically involves buildings, the term can also refer to the intentional burning of other things, such as motor vehicles, wat ...

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 Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...

. A work titled ''Windsbraut'' is in the Dalbergplatz in Frankfurt-Höchst. In 2008 she was, with the cellist , one of two recipients in that year of the

Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt (german: Goethe-Plakette der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, links=no) is an award conferred by Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany and named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The plaque was originally designed by sculptor ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nele, Renee German sculptors German goldsmiths 1932 births Living people Artists from Berlin Situationists German women artists German contemporary artists Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design Women metalsmiths