Eckhard Heyden
Eckhard Heyden (born May 1, 1925 in Stettin ; † January 16, 2010 in Marburg ) was a German artist.
Life
Like almost all children, also inspired by his mother Elisabeth, he painted from an early age, and then stayed with it later. The war experience made him - like his father Hellmuth Heyden - study theology . He studied in Greifswald , Rostock and Berlin . At the same time he dealt with art history and philosophy.
In 1953 he became pastor at the Marienkirche (Stralsund) . His meditation pictures were on display there for decades as a permanent exhibition and created a meeting place for the numerous visitors to the Hanseatic city who were on their way to Rügen. There were friends of his painting in almost all cities of the former GDR. Some pictures also went abroad. An altarpiece was acquired for Uppsala . Other pictures went to Poland, Czechoslovakia , Damascus and the USA.
Due to illness, Heyden moved to West Germany in 1979. Since then Eckhard Heyden has had several solo exhibitions in Hamburg, Cologne, Worphausen, Holzminden, Aumühle and the like. a.
His painterly design was about internalizing and expressing certain experiences. His “interior views” were primarily aimed at meeting the mysterious. He saw it in the symbol of light, which everything shines through, but without being able to be opened up. It is always present as an underlying element when it changes in color, shape, structure or in a bark, earthy shape. For him, the incarnation of light is a sign of a creation process that is never without hope and love. Even if the uncanny, the dark and the cryptic appear at times, these powers are held by the transcendence of light and the ordering composition.
Eckhard Heyden died on January 16, 2010 in a Marburg hospital.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heyden, Eckhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 2010 |
| Place of death | Marburg |