Berthold Nebel [SEP] date of death
Berthold Nebel
Berthold Nebel (1889–1964) was an American sculptor.
Berthold Nebel was born in 1889 in Basel, Switzerland, and came to the United States with his parents when he was a year old.
Training.
By 1900 his parents had settled in New Jersey, and Nebel as a young boy took lessons in oil painting from “an artist lady” who told him she could teach him nothing more and that he must go to art school. He began work at a decorative terra cotta factory in
and a member of the National Sculpture Society.
Following his death, Nebel's studio was enjoyed by his daughter Lucia Nebel White, a photographer, and her husband, George A. White, the well-known builder-architect.
Sources.
- E. Benezit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, et graveurs, Volume 10, Grund. 1999
- Glenn B. Opitz, "Berthold Nebel," Dictionary of American Sculptors, Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1984, p. 290