Angela Hampel

Angela Hampel Biography

Angela Hampel is one of the most popular and richest German painter who was born on February 16, 1956 in Räckelwitz, Germany. As of June 1, 2023, Angelos has a net worth approximately $5 Million.

Born in 1956 in Rächelwitz near Kamenz in the east German state of Saxony, Hampel trained as a forestry worker and heavy vehicle driver from 1972 to 1974. She then worked in forestry for the two years while studying art in evening classes at the Bautzen branch of the Dresden Art Academy. After spending a year arranging programmes for young people at the Kamenz culture centre, she continued studying painting and graphic art under Jutta Damme and Dietmar Büttner at the academy until 1982.

Starting in 1982, Hampel began independent artistic work in Dresden and Berlin. Inspired by Christa Wolf’s Cassandra, Hampel’s prints and mixed technique works feature Penthesilea, a warrior queen in Greek Mythology. The art historian Karin Weber explains: “Angel Hampel’s name is closely linked to the neo-expressive artistic movement in the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s when painters sought to intervene with formal ecstasy in the conflicts of the times.” In 1989, Hampel co-founded the women artists’ association Dresdner Sezession ’89, the first of its kind in Saxony.

Hampel has also designed book covers both for paperbacks and exhibition catalogues such as that for the Dresden City Archives in 2014. She works with woodcuts, often waiting until she can get a board suited to her current work from a demolished house. She is also proficient in the art of algraphy or printing on aluminium plates, working with the many shades of grey between black and white.