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Description
‘Kalenberger Bauernfamilie’ (‘Farmer Family from Kalenberg’)
Biography: Adolf Wissel
Detail (middle part), created by Adolf Wissel, of the famous ‘Kalenberger Bauernfamilie’.
Size: 69 x 51 cm.
The Kalenberger Bauernfamilie
‘Kalenberger Bauernfamilie’ (‘Farming Family from Kalenberg’), 1939. GDK 1939, room 33; depicted in the exhibition catalogue. Size 200 cm x 150 cm. Bought by Hitler for 12,000 RM. Currently in the possession of the German Historical Museum, Berlin.
‘Calenberg’ is an agricultural region south-west of Hannover. ‘Kalenberger Bauernfamilie’ was also displayed at the exhibition ‘Kunst im 3. Reich, Dokumente der Unterwerfung’; the exhibition, instigated by the Frankfurter Kunstverein, was held from 1974 to 1975 in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Ludwigshafen and Wuppertal. Again displayed at the exhibition ‘The Romantic Spirit in German Art 1790 – 1990’, organised by the Royal Scottish Academy, Edingburgh/ London, 1994/95.
‘Kalenberger Bauernfamilie’ displayed in 1977 at the Exhibition ‘Deutschland 1930-1939: Verbot, Anpassung, Exil’ in Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland: Der Archivar – Nazi-Kunst – ist das Kunst oder muss das weg? – Kultur – SRF
‘Kalenberger Bauernfamilie’ by Wissel, displayed at the exhibition Art in the Third Reich Seduction and Distraction Museum Arnhem The Netherlands November 2023 March 2024. Photo Eva Broekema.
Also displayed at the exhibition ‘Die Neue Sachlichkeit’, Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2024/25. 
‘Kalenberger Bauernfamilie’ by Wissel, on German TV (ZDF/ 12 December 2023). ZDF Museum Arnhem (at 24.58 min.)
‘Adolf Wissel, a kind of Bavarian Grant Wood…’
‘Kalenberger Bauernfamily’ depicted in the American ‘Magazine of Art’, October 1945. Adolf Wissel was described as ‘a kind of Bavarian Grant Wood, but more careful, smug, and laudatory’ (‘Art in the Third Reich’ by Monuments Man Lincoln Kirstein in the Magazine of Art, New York, October 1945).
| – condition | : II restored |
| – size | : unframed 69 x 51 cm |
| – signed | : left, under |
| – type | : oil on canvas |
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