Almut Heise

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Almut Heise (born September 23, 1944 in Celle ) is a multiple award-winning German painter and graphic artist and professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences .

Years of apprenticeship

Almut Heise began her artistic training 1965–1967 with a degree at the University Institute for Art and Craft Education in Mainz with Klaus Jürgen-Fischer . From 1967 to 1970 she attended the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg , where Gotthard Graubner and Paul Wunderlich were among her teachers . A DAAD scholarship then enabled her to spend a year at the Royal College of Art in London, where she took lessons from teachers Allen Jones , David Hockney and Peter Blake .

Act

Almut Heise's first works deal primarily with the precise representation of typical interiors of the 1950s: from cocktail chairs to over curtains, potted plants and wallpaper and carpet patterns. If at first it was a rather uncritical description of the economic miracle of that time, elements of Pop Art , irony and social criticism increasingly flowed into her drawings, etchings and paintings. In 1978 she was appointed professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, department of design.

From 1974 onwards she devoted herself primarily to depicting people. She only wants her pictures to be superficially understood as realistic. In 1978 she portrayed the writer Sarah Kirsch . A double portrait of Hamburg's mayor Herbert Weichmann and his wife Elsbeth , which was made in 1986 and was given a place of honor in the Hamburg City Hall , became known.

Honors

literature

  • Kulturkreis Finkenwerder (ed.): Almut Heise / paintings 1968–1999. Christians-Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-7672-1377-X .
  • Family Kay Rump, Maike Bruhns: The New Rump. 2nd Edition. Wachholtz-Verlag, Neumünster / Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 187.
  • Ursula Meyer-Rogge: Metamorphoses - Artists in Hamburg with works since 1968 . Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86218-013-4 .
  • Marie-Catherine Vogt: The wanderer over the sea of ​​fog , in: Almut Heise, exhibition catalog Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin 2015, p. 3–4.

Web links

  • Gisela Schütte: The mysterious worlds of Almut Heise. In: The world. August 8, 2000 (online)
  • Almut Heise , exhibition catalog Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin 2015. (online)


personal data
SURNAME Heise, Almut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle