Willy Jaeckel

Willy Gustav Erich Jaeckel (10 February 1888, Breslau – 30 January 1944, Berlin) was a German Expressionist painter and lithographer.

Jaeckel's father was a public lands manager and he originally intended to become a forest ranger, but poor health forced him to change his plans.

[1] His first successful painting was "Kampf" (Battle, or Struggle), a large canvas featuring a bellowing, muscular, naked man.

[1] In response, he painted "Plowman in the Evening" (1939), meant to depict the Nazi concept of Blood and Soil.

[1] One of his major works, a four-part fresco mural at the Bahlsen bakery in Hanover dating from 1917, was destroyed later in 1944.