Alfred Heinsohn

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Alfred Heinsohn, 1906
Alfred Heinsohn: coastal forest

Alfred Heinsohn (born February 10, 1875 in Hamburg ; † November 12, 1927 there ) was a German painter .

Life

Alfred Heinsohn trained as a decorative painter in Hamburg and then studied at the arts and crafts schools in Karlsruhe and Düsseldorf. Later he studied in Weimar with Theodor Hagen and Christian Rohlfs . In Weimar he met Franz Bunke , Rudolf Bartels and Peter Paul Draewing . Franz Bunke came from Schwaan in Mecklenburg, where he founded the Schwaan artists' colony around 1880 . Heinsohn built a house there on the outskirts in 1902, which he lived in until 1910. He then traveled through Switzerland and France until he was called up in World War I. During the war he interrupted his artistic work. After the war he returned to Hamburg, where he committed suicide in 1927.

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Heinsohn developed an individually expressive , increasingly abstract style. Untreated, coarse sackcloth is typical as the painting ground, the tint of which is integrated into the composition. In addition to paintings and watercolors, he also produced colored drawings, often in smaller formats. Heinsohn also dealt with theoretical problems of color and with architectural designs.

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Web links

Commons : Alfred Heinsohn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kunstmuseum Schwaan: Alfred Heinsohn , accessed on August 8, 2010.