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Alfred Zwiebel (November 6, 1914 - February 25, 2005) was a German-American landscape, floral, and still-life painter. ==Early life== He was born in Fürth, in southern Germany, but when he was four, his family moved to the city of Bamberg, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its medieval cathedral and many other gems of art and architecture from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque. It was there that he spent his childhood and youth, and the beauty of that city and its surrounding area, the region of Germany known as "Franconian Switzerland," inspired him from his boyhood to the end of his life. Soon after the Nazis came to power, Zwiebel and his family left Germany; he and his four siblings were raised as Lutherans by their mother, but his father was Jewish, as well as politically active against the Nazis. In 1935, Zwiebel immigrated to the United States, living first in Milwaukee and then settling in New York City, where in 1941 he married Clara Fried, a portrait painter who had studied with American Realist artist Tully Filmus. They had one child, a daughter. Zwiebel served in the U.S. Army during World War II and became an American citizen in 1944. For the next 20 years he worked at a variety of "day jobs," painting whenever he had free time. Among other things, he worked as a baker, ski salesman, and commercial artist. From 1949-1953, he was a radio personality in New York City, where he had a weekly program, "Music From Alfred Zwiebel's Collection," on station WABF,〔http://www.jjonz.us/RadioLogs/pagesnfiles/logs_files/1950s/1952/52_10Oct/%5Bn%5D52-10-22-(Wed).pdf.〕 playing opera and classical music recordings from his own extensive collection (opera was another of his lifelong passions). He also occasionally wrote articles on music for publication.〔See, for example: Alfred Zwiebel, "Whatever Happened to Heldentenors?", ''MUSIC JOURNAL'' magazine, Vol. XXI, No. 7/October 1963, pp. 26-28.〕 Two singers engaged at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1950s and '60s, Lisa Della Casa and Anneliese Rothenberger, studied painting with him while in New York.,〔Debeljevic, Dragan (1975), ''Ein Leben mit Lisa Della Casa (A Life with Lisa Della Casa),'' Atlantis Verlag, Zürich, ISBN 3-7611-0474-X, p. 151: "As long as we lived in Forest Hills, we socialized with a couple, both of whom were painters, Clara and Alfred Zwiebel. () painted in different styles, () in a more academic manner, () very impressionistically; we took a lively part in the discussions about this, and my wife often watched the prolific Alfred while he painted. ... She discovered painting; Clara and Alfred initiated her into the techniques, and she painted in every free minute. She was often urged to exhibit her pictures, but she declined." (The original German reads: "Solange wir in Forest Hills wohnten, verkehrten wir mit einem Malerehepaar, Clara und Alfred Zwiebel. () malten verschieden, () eher akademisch, () ungestüm impressionistisch; wir beteiligten uns lebhaft an den Diskussionen darüber, und meine Frau sah oft dem produktivten Alfred bein Malen zu. ... Sie entdeckte das Malen; Clara und Alfred weihten sie ins Handwerkliche ein, sie malte in jeder freien Minute. Mehrmals wurde sie aufgefordert, ihre Bilder auszustellen, aber sie lehnte es ab.")〕〔"Die schönsten 'Zwiebeln' hängen an der Wand" ("The most beautiful 'Zwiebels' are on the wall," (a play on words, as "Zwiebel" in German can mean "flower bulb," and Mainau is an island famous for its floral gardens )), ''Mainau-Inselpost'' magazine, Nr. 1, April 1977, p. 6: "... We mean the exhibition of paintings by Alfred Zwiebel of New York in the Castle's Hall of Heraldry. From April 1st to May 8th, visitors to Mainau will be able to see paintings by this noted artist. Alfred Zwiebel, incidentally, was Anneliese Rothenberger's painting and drawing teacher when she was in New York for a protracted stay." (The original reads, "... Gemeint ist die Gemälde-Ausstellung des Künstlers Alfred Zwiebel aus New York im Wappensaal des Schlosses. Vom 1. April bis 8. Mai werden die Mainau-Besucher die Bilder des bekannten Malers sehen können. Alfred Zwiebel war übrigens der Mal- und Zeichenlehrer von Anneliese Rothenberger während eines längeren Amerika-Aufenthalts der Künstlerin.") A. Rothenberger later made a successful career as a painter after she retired from singing.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred Zwiebel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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