Dr Karel Vogel
Born 1897
Died 1961
Active: 1941 - 1961
Country of birth: Czechoslovakia
Country of death: England
Sculptor, teacher
Born Czechoslovakia. Studied in Prague, Munich and Vienna. Worked as sculptor in Prague from 1924, producing many portraits. Came to England 1938. Principal of School of Sculpture of Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. Showed at Venice Biennale before war.
Commissions include: three large reliefs for Pavilion of Power and Production for Festival of Britain, 1951; work for schools includes Hoddesdon, Albrighton and Moreton Hall; Torsos purchased and publicly sited by Harlow Art Trust 1955; large reclining figure for Hammersmith site 1959; State Museum Prague; Nuremburg City Museum.
Exhibitions include: exhibited at Royal Academy 1940 and 1953; SB 1951; LCC 1960; AC 1961; South London Art Gallery 1962 (memorial exhibition).
Collections include: Harlow Art Trust
Further reading: E. M. Gombrich, (intro.), Karel Vogel, an Exhibition of Small Bronzes, Arts Council, 1963, (exh. cat.).
C.S. Spencer, ‘Karel Vogel’, in Studio, Vol. 165, April 1963, pp. 154-159.
‘Retrospective exhibition at South London Gallery’, in The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 105, January 1963, p. 40.
Biography from Whiteley (2001)
Works
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Mask
1941 (Presumed)
Figure
1941 (Presumed)
Locations
Address 38 Redcliffe Road London SW | View on map
1940 (Circa)
Address 92A Willow Street Oswestry | View on map
1945 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Exhibition of Works by Allied Artists (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts / Manchester City Art Gallery), 1942
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1940 - 1953
Exhibited twice, three works in all
Exhibited at Exhibition of Works by Allied Artists (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts / National Museum of Wales), 1942
October 1942
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1945
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 1 time: 1945 (1 work)
Institutional and Business Connections
Teacher of modeling at Camberwell School of Art
September 1948
Listed as a teacher of week day classes in sculpture and modelling. From 1949-1950 onwards, Vogel is listed as a teacher of day classes in sculputure and modelling, and as 'senior assistant in charge' of the modelling and sculpture department.
Sources
Catalogue of the Exhibition of Works by Allied Artists, 1942
1942
Cat. Nos. 197, 198, p. 13
Catalogue of Works by Allied Artists
1942
College of Art and Craft Prospectus 1949-1950, 1949 Nottingham School of Art
1949
p. 3 and p. 8.
Directory of sculptors working and exhibiting in Britain in the 1950s, by Gillian Whiteley
2001
p. 34
Citing this record
'Dr Karel Vogel', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1254137636, accessed 03 Jul 2022]
