Bert Heller

Bert Heller, 1951

Aloys Joseph Hubert Heller , officially Bert Heller since 1964 (born March 30, 1912 in Haaren ; † April 29, 1970 in Berlin ), was a German painter and rector of the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . He was best known for his portraits , posters and building-related works.

Life

After studying at the Aachen School of Applied Arts from 1927 to 1930 (including with Anton Wendling and Jordan-Bozen), Bert Heller went on study trips to Holland , Belgium and Austria and worked as a freelancer in Laurensberg . In 1932 he had his first exhibition in the Städtisches Suermondtmuseum Aachen (together with Adda Kesselkaul and Richard Birnstengel). From 1940 he studied at the Art Academy in Munich with Hermann Kaspar . In the same year he joined the NSDAP .

After the Second World War he was a lecturer at the art school in Wernigerode from 1946 to 1950 , and from 1950 to 1953 Heinrich Ehmsen's master class at the Academy of the Arts (Berlin) . This was followed by a professorship for painting at the University of Fine Arts and Applied Arts Berlin-Weißensee, of which he was rector from 1956 to 1958. Heller also joined the SED.

He went on a study trip to the People's Republic of China in 1954 and to Paris in 1955 . In 1955 an exhibition of Chinese studies followed at the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin (together with Bernhard Kretschmar , Werner Klemke , Harald Metzkes and Fritz Cremer .) He had been a member of the German Academy of the Arts in Berlin since 1965 and the first among the former master students of the AdK, which later became a full member.

From 1958 until his death in 1970 Bert Heller worked freelance in Berlin-Spindlersfeld .

Awards

• 1964: National Prize of the GDR
• 1963: Art Prize of the FDGB
• 1951: National Prize of the GDR III. Class for exhibition design as well as design of the world festival

Works (selection)

painting

1947 wood collector 1947 Brockenschmiede (Triphthong) 1947 Wernigerode town hall under construction 1947 Hohnstein Castle 1947 Florian Geyer 1948 The Good Samaritan 1948 Town Hall in Wernigerode 1950 Werner Hinz in the role of Mephisto 1951 Helene Weigel 1951 half act Toto 1951 Thomas Müntzer 1952 Gavroche 1952 Portrait of Prof. Dr. Johannes Stroux 1953 Portrait of the writer Fritz Erpenbeck 1954 my mother 1954 Child playing 1954 construction site in Beijing 1955 portrait study by Kurt Maetzig 1955 Taiwan 1955/56 Portrait of Bertolt Brecht 1957 Portrait of Wilhelm Pieck 1957 Michael Kohlhaas , triptych 1957 Master Ehmsen

1958 Portrait of Hanns Eisler 1958 Portrait of Eduard von Winterstein 1959 Portrait of Prof. Dr. Hermann Henselmann 1959 Portrait of Prof. Dr. Otto Nagel 1959 Gustav-Adolf Schur and the boys 1959 Portrait of my children with Kasper and tractor 1960 Adieu ivory tower 1961 Portrait of Prof. Josef Kaiser 1961 Portrait of Willi Bredel 1963 Two from VEB flower white 1964 girl in the shower room (Brigade M.) 1964 Portrait of Otto Grotewohl 1965 Portrait of Gisela May 1965 Portrait of Arnold Zweig 1966 Portrait of Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Walter Friedrich (biophysicist) 1966 composer Wilhelm Neef 1967 Portrait of Aram Khachaturyan 1967 Portrait of Gret Palucca 1967 Portrait of Prof. Dr. FK Kaul 1967 Portrait of Galina Ulanowa 1968 Portrait of Gabriele Seyfert 1969 Portrait of Prof. Dr.hc Manfred von Ardenne

drawings 1948 Anna Seghers 1948 Joan of Arc 1952 Liberated in 1945 1954 Fritz Cremer 1957 Ernst Busch as Galileo

Movie posters 1954 Ernst Thälmann - son of his class 1956 Thomas Müntzer - A film of German history 1957 The Witches of Salem (FRG title witch hunt ) 1958 The wretched

Mosaic at Café Moscow (1964)

Construction-related work 1947 Secco in the town hall of Wernigerode 1948 resin Say Ratskeller Wernigerode (not preserved, see resin Say with photos in a folder of Druka Wernigerode, November 2, 1949, edition of 5000 pieces) 1959 Nuclear fission mosaic in the entrance area of ​​the former Institute for Applied Radioactivity in Leipzig 1964 Scenes from the life of the peoples of the Soviet Union (mosaic at Café Moskau in Berlin ) 1969 mural in the Palais Unter den Linden Book illustrations 1943 Lutz Mackensen : Legends of the Germans in the Wartheland. With 26 pen drawings by Bert Heller 1955 Michael Gold: Charlie Chaplin's Parade 1958 Mulk Raj Anand : Indian fairy tales 1959 Theun de Vries : The landscape

1960 Sadek Hedajat : The Legend of Creation 1961 Muchtar Äuesow : About the year and the day 1961 Claus and Wera Küchenmeister : Judith's wonderful ball 1963 Galina Nikolajewa : Wassilissa and the miracles 1964 Shakespeare : Sonnets 1964 Aubrey Pankey: The Firebird 1965 Konrad Winkler: silk made from crane feathers 1965 Joachim Priewe : Summer bliss 1966 Goethe : Faust , the first and second part of the tragedy 1967 Mulk Raj Anand : The Brahmin, the Tiger and the Jackal 1967 Axel Frelau : The black drum 1968 Kalevala 1970 Helmuth Pelzer (Ed.): Chanson next door

literature

• Horst Jähner : World of Art - Bert Heller . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1959.
• Lothar Lang: painter and work - Bert Heller . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1970.
• Short biography for:  Heller, Bert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister Dresden: Bert Heller - 1912–1970. Paintings, drawings, posters, illustrations . Dresden-Berlin 1972. Publisher of the exhibition catalog: Ministry for Culture of the GDR, Magistrate of Greater Berlin, German Academy of the Arts in Berlin, State Art Collections Dresden-Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister.
• Adam C. Oellers, Roland Rappmann, Hermann-Josef Reudenbach: Book covers 1890-1960. Cover and binding designs by Aachen artists . Aachen 1998, pp. 43, 83.

Web links

Commons : Bert Heller  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Bert Heller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bert Heller in the joint project Bildatlas Art in the GDR
• Fish from the fifties , article on a found mural by Bert Heller in the Berliner Zeitung of October 25, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 232.