Heidrun Hegewald

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Heidrun Hegewald (born October 21, 1936 in Meißen ) is a German painter , graphic artist , draftsman and author .

Life

She experienced her childhood and school education in Meißen and Dresden. From 1955, Hegewald first studied fashion design at the Engineering School for the Clothing Industry in Berlin, then from 1958 to 1960 graphics at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . From 1960 to 1971 she worked as a freelance graphic artist in the field of illustration and book design. In 1961 she had her son Gregor. From 1967 to 1993 she was a member of the VBK of the GDR . From 1971 to 1974 she was a master class student with Werner Klemke at the Academy of Arts of the GDR . During this time she was also enrolled as a guest student at the Humboldt University in Berlin with Wolfgang Heise on the history of philosophy and aesthetics. From 1978 to 1988 she was a member of the central board and the presidium of the VBK of the GDR and of the Berlin district board of the VBK.

She has been working as a freelance painter, graphic artist and draftsman since 1975, and has also been a journalist since 1976. She lives in Berlin-Karow . According to her own statement, her concern is an engaging art , committed to the dialogic principle .

Work (selection)

painting

  • Chile, September 11, 1973 (1973),
  • Playing child (1974),
  • Child and parents (1976),
  • Mother Merit Cross in Wood (1979),
  • Kassandra sees a snake egg (1981),
  • The dance masters, a picture about the wrong notes (1981),
  • Exit (1982),
  • The mother with the child (1983/84),
  • Pietà (1984),
  • Prometheus notices playing with fire (1986),
  • The Pink (1987),
  • Entropy, Sisyphus in his lap (1988/89),
  • Judith on Holofernes (2005)

Graphics

  • Luther (Aquatint 1984),
  • to JR Becher: The Rumor I and II (drypoint etchings 1984),
  • to G. Maurer: thoughts of love (etching 1986),
  • Entropy, Sisyphus in his lap (lithograph 1987),
  • Head of a Prophet and a Straitjacket (1993 lithograph),
  • to A. Seghers: Überfahrt (lithographs 2001),
  • Witch Burning III. Satan's Wife or Just Made of a Rib (drypoint 1985),
  • Shadow play ( linocut and tear 1986),
  • - xy - (drypoint 1990),
  • We bring the cross (lithograph / chalk 1990),
  • The lost face (lithograph 1992),
  • Shared guilt (lithograph 1992),
  • Kassandra's last prophecy (drypoint 2006).

drawings

  • Command and Anatomy (1976),
  • Irritated Guardian Angels (1980),
  • Bond (1980),
  • Mother, Child II (1982,)
  • Drug Pietà - Furiosa (1990),
  • In the beginning was the scream - giving birth (1987),
  • Drug Pietà - Furiosa (1990),
  • Freedom - the German Schindluder (1991),
  • Fall of Solitude (1991),
  • Biographical report (2000),
  • Icarus falls (2004),
  • January 27, 1945 (2005),
  • ... sudden updraft / Icarus (2007),
  • The Smoker's Children (2007),
  • Death without parting (2008),
  • Terra and her unloved child (2008),
  • Guardian Angel. At the scene of the crime (2008),
  • Irritated Guardian Angels 2008 (2008),
  • Guardian Angel. After that (2008),

Hegewald also illustrated and designed numerous books, including Peter Hacks : The Flea Market (1965) and The Shoe and the Flying Princess (1966), The Fist Glove (1974), Bruno Apitz : Esther (1988) and Holde-Barbara Ulrich “Come to me . It's cold ” .

Journalism

  • The guards have stopped (Fine Arts 11/1979),
  • Female art as an authentic part of the view of reality (tendencies 158/87),
  • Music and fine arts (catalog entry 1985),
  • In the beginning there was the scream - ... (Drehpunkt, Die Schweizer Literaturzeitschrift 70/88),
  • The history of the GDR is coming to an end. ... (ND of May 23, 1990),
  • Mrs. K. The two ways of turning pale (Dietz Berlin 1993),
  • Some is a process of contradiction. “Whoever crosses the sea changes the climate and not the character.” (Horace). Speech on the occasion of the 56th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic. In: ICARUS, magazine for social theory, human rights and culture, edited. by the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity, Issue 1/2006,
  • “Country - three times different. Narrated Pictures ”, audio book, ARTE-MISIA-PRESS, 2008

Awards

Heidrun Hegewald has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including

literature

Catalogs of exhibitions, representations of works in documentation and books, including:

  • L. Lang: Painting and graphics in the GDR, Leipzig 1978; ders .: Painting and graphics in East Germany, Leipzig 2002; ders .: Artist in Berlin, Berlin 1979;
  • Wolfgang Heise: Laudation for Heidrun Hegewald on the occasion of the awarding of the Max Lingner Prize of the Academy of Arts of the GDR in 1980 . In: Mitteilungen der Akademie der Künste, issue 2/1981;
  • W. Hütt: We and Art, Berlin 1981;
  • Angelika Haas u. Bernd Kuhnert (ed.): Heidrun Hegewald. Drawings. Painting. Graphics. Texts. , Verlag Arte-Misia-Press Berlin 2004

Contributions in media:

  • Torsten Unger: Interview with Heidrun Hegewald, recorded on October 12, 1989, on the personal exhibition: Heidrun Hegewald - painting and drawing in the cabinet at Goetheplatz in Weimar, Weimar broadcaster, and Radio DDR, Dialog, October 21, 1989;
  • Dietmar Hochmuth: Scattered scene . Documentary , first broadcast on January 31, 1994 on ORB television (Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg);
  • Thomas Grimm: Interview with Heidrun Hegewald on December 6, 1994. TV for contemporary witnesses for the exhibition: Mission: Art. 1949-1990. Visual artists in the GDR between aesthetics and politics

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1980 Potsdam, gallery in the district museum; Halle, State Gallery Moritzburg;
  • 1982 Berlin, TiP Gallery in the Palace of the Republic ;
  • 1984 Frankfurt am Main, gallery in the bunker (together with Nuria Quevedo);
  • 1987 Berlin, exhibition center at the television tower;
  • 1988 Berlin, Deutsches Theater;
  • 1989 Weimar, City Museum, cabinet at Goetheplatz;
  • 1989/90 Gera, art gallery;
  • 1990 Berlin, The Hidden Museum;
  • 1991 Berlin, cultural project tongue; Gotha, gallery on the main market;
  • 1992 Berlin, cultural project tongue; Ochtrup, Villa Weiner;
  • 1993 Berlin, Club Spittelkolonnaden; Cultural project tongue;
  • 1995 Berlin, Max Delbrück Center ;
  • 1998 Berlin, Women's Center Paula Panke eV;
  • 2000 Wernigerode, gallery on the first floor;
  • 2001 Berlin, Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity eV (GBM);
  • 2002/03 Berlin, Karl-Liebknecht-Haus (together with Rolf Biebl);
  • 2003 Berlin, Inselgalerie;
  • 2004 Berlin, wellpappgalerie of the Kulturbrauerei;
  • 2006 Berlin, Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity (GBM);
  • 2007 Literature Forum in the Brecht House in Berlin; Weimar, Hebecker Gallery,
  • 2008 Berlin, Club Spittelkolonnaden

Her works can be found in the Akademie der Künste , Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Charité Berlin, the Beeskow Art Archive, the Gera Art Collection, the Ludwig Gallery in Oberhausen Castle, the Museum of Fine Arts and in the New Gewandhaus in Leipzig, in the Castle Museum and Gallery for Modern Art Gotha, in the Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture of the State of Berlin, in the State Gallery Moritzburg Halle, in the State Art Museum of Saxony-Anhalt, in the State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Foundation Cultural holdings, in the State Museum Schwerin - art collections, in the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin and in over 30 private collections.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heidrun Hegewald , Bildatlas Kunst in der DDR , accessed on April 8, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Hegewald, Heidrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen