Heiner Palinkas

Heiner Palinkas , actually Heinrich Palinkas (born February 15, 1913 in Lehe (Bremerhaven) , † July 7, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German painter.

biography

Name tag on the artist's house in Bremerhaven (removed after the house was sold)

Palinkas lost his father at an early age and did an apprenticeship in glass and decorative painting in order to support his mother and siblings financially. From 1933 he studied art and was a pupil of Willy Menz at the Kunstgewerbeschule Bremen , but had to break off his studies due to difficulties with the Gestapo . He had refused to join the National Socialist student union . In 1935 he was a student with Albert Schiestl-Arding in Worpswede . As a soldier in World War II, he was taken prisoner of war. It was not until 1946 that he continued his studies with Professors Karl Caspar (1946/47) and Arno Bromberger (1967/68) at the Munich Art Academy .

Palinkas went to sea as a radio operator for 30 years, as painting was not enough to secure the livelihood of his wife and four children. In the meantime he was an art teacher at the American school in Bremerhaven .

Works

His pictures reflect the experiences and impressions on his travels in motifs to the sea, ships and people in impressive color compositions and contrasts. Many works were created abroad and also show the artist's changing locations in their titles. In the North Atlantic, Palinkas traveled on fishing steamers and submarines, painting the Greenland landscape and the work of deep-sea fishermen. Passenger and cargo ships brought him to America, and he also visited many ports on the East Asia route. Paul Cézanne , August Macke and Franz Marc are named as godparents of his work . His work includes oil paintings, ink and charcoal drawings, woodcuts and etchings, of landscapes as well as still lifes, portraits and abstract compositions. Later he also made glass windows and mosaics, for example a wall mosaic with a size of 3 × 7.2 meters in the meeting room of the Bremerhaven city administration from 50,000 stones in 1972/73 . Only in old age did Palinkas gain extensive recognition as a landscape and portrait painter in larger exhibitions in northern Germany.

In 2015 the four children donated the estate to the Bremerhaven Historical Museum . After the restoration of some works, the artist was honored with a special exhibition in the museum in 2016.

literature

• Elke Grapenthin: Heiner Palinkas . In: Artists in Bremerhaven and the surrounding area 1827-1990 , Ed. Freundeskreis Paul Ernst Wilke, Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1991, ISBN 3-926598-40-9 , pp. 294–304.
• Kunstverein Bremerhaven from 1886 : Catalog for the collective exhibition of the painter Heiner Palinkas on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Bremerhaven 1984.