Heinrich Brockmeier
Heinrich Brockmeier (* 1938 in Berlin ) is a German draftsman and sculptor who works primarily with watercolors and ink or in bronze , iron , mixed media and who is "constantly looking for new ways of expression".
Life
Brockmeier was born in Berlin in 1938. He has been a sculptor since 1969. He has had a joint studio with the painter Uschi Klaas in Recklinghausen since 1987 and another one in Spain for several years .
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Brockmeier is represented in many cities in North Rhine-Westphalia with his sculptures and busts . For example, there are three works by him on the Herten sculpture trail .
Evaluation of the work
Painting
The portrait art represents a focus in the work of Brockmeier. a. Portraits of Ernst Bloch , Otto Wels , Käthe Kollwitz , Salvador Dalí and Picasso . Here the artist emphasizes the theme of transience by realizing during the work that the "human face is built on the skull, on the skull". One of the approaches is to create a series of portraits of the same person or to age the halves of the face differently.
Object art, sculpture
Brockmeier's bronze work focuses on the human figure. The design language is reduced to the essentials and tends towards abstraction . His sculptures leave "a strict and strongly present impression due to their angular and block-like surfaces". The human figure emerges in the works of art in a wide variety of designs from painterly representational to abstract reduction. Special emphasis is placed on the “dualism of deeply felt joy in being and the shock of transience.” This dichotomy is particularly evident in the so-called tragic figures , which emerged in the early 1980s. Examples are sculptures by Don Quixote , Icarus , Orpheus and Eurydice and Jesus Christ .
As early as the 1970s, he created his so-called extreme figures , who live entirely “from their dynamism and their baroque gestures”. The sculptures are often held in their spatial position with the help of a frame surrounding them, whereby the frame defines the "basic human situation: being enclosed and thus isolated" (Ute Eggeling) or "being restricted by conventions" and "social compulsion" ( Brockmeier).
Another focus is on variants of the equestrian statue , whereby less “a long iconographic tradition” (Ute Eggeling) of this subject, but rather the common destiny of horse and human (Brockmeier) is thematized. It also plays a role here that Brockmeier considers the horse “the most beautiful animal” (Brockmeier).
From around 1985 a further group of figures was created, the so-called Hebros , individual sculptures which, despite their reduced imagery, are “blocky and clunky”, have a massive upper body and almost vanishingly small head and represent “identification figures” in which the artist can find himself hopes. "These sculptures are the résumé of all my previous debates" (Brockmeier).
Exhibitions, collections, art in public spaces
Art in public space
Compilation in a selection (supplemented, possibly not complete)
- Citizens Clinic, Oberhausen
- A time of silence Flottmann-Hallen, Herne
- Bust of Robert Brauner Herne Robert – Brauner – Platz, Herne
- Ecstasy Bochumer Strasse, Herne
- Paternoster IHK Bochum
- Together, Kemnader See, Bochum
- Signal Westfalenpark, Dortmund
- Tragic figure , copper / iron, 1981, Herne
- Communication? Kampstrasse, Dortmund
- Bust of Willy Brandt Willy-Brandt-Park, Recklinghausen
- Bust of Freiherr vom Stein Rathaus, Recklinghausen
- Bust of Gustav Heinemann Justice Academy, Recklinghausen
- Bust of Konrad Adenauer Konrad – Adenauer – Platz, Recklinghausen
- Sun disk Theodor-Körner-Straße, Recklinghausen
- Citizens wear their city town hall square, Recklinghausen
- Together Ewaldstrasse, Herten
- Communication Ewaldstrasse, Herten
- Reading Place de Arras, Herten
- Relief Otto Wels Otto-Wels-Platz, Herten
- Bust of Freiherr vom Stein , Berlin
- Expectation shopping street, Herten
- Time slice IHK, Gelsenkirchen
- Lonely Hebro Post Office, Beckum
- Moment post office, Meinberg
- Positions Kunsthalle, Emden
- Constellation Ruhrverband, Essen
- Bust of Willi Pohlmann Willi – Pohlmann – Platz, Herne
- Antonius Church König – Ludwig, Recklinghausen
- Together, Kemnader See, Bochum
- Hope , Hattingen
- Abstract figure , Tübingen
Publicly owned art
Compilation in a selection
- Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen
- Justice Academy Recklinghausen
- Sparkasse Vest, Recklinghausen
- German Bundestag, Berlin
- Sparkasse Castrop-Rauxel
- Ruhr Association Essen
- Märkisches Museum Witten
- Art collection Nannen, Emden
- Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
- University of Bochum
- Gdansk City Hall
- German Association of Cities, Cologne
- Mark – E, Hagen
- Ernst Bloch Archive, Tübingen
- IHK Bochum
- Sieger Collection, Münster
- Berg Collection, Zurich
- Herner Sparkasse
- Municipal gallery, Herne
- Thyssen-Krupp, Essen
Solo exhibitions
Compilation in a selection
- Art gallery, Emden
- Märkisches Museum, Witten (1976)
- Episcopal Museum, Trier
- Art Association, Munich (1979)
- Künstlerhaus, Donetsk
- Art Nouveau, Paris
- Art Association, Unna (1973)
- Parliamentary Society, Bonn
- Galerie Laimböck, Utrecht
- Jaeschke Gallery, Braunschweig
Participation in exhibitions
Compilation in a selection
- 1970 Dortmund, Ostentor Gallery, graphic 99
- 1971 Düsseldorf, winter exhibition
- 1972 Herne, Museum, 75 years of Herne
- 1972 Euskirchen, State Garden Show
- 1972 Cologne, kaleidoscope
- 1972 Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle, Young West
- 1972 Hanover, Wilhelm Busch Museum
- 1972 Essen, forum of visual artists
- 1972 Dinslaken, eight artists from the Ruhr area
- 1972 Düsseldorf, international art fair
- 1972 Düsseldorf, winter exhibition
- 1973 Unna, Kunstverein, Napoleon III
- 1973 Göttingen, art market
- 1973 Basel, international art fair
- 1973 Hamm, Atelier Schumitz
- 1973 Essen, forum of visual artists
- 1973 Cologne, international art fair
- 1974 Paris, Academie des Beaux Arts
- 1974 Berlin, international art market
- 1974 Düsseldorf, international art fair
- 1974 Essen, forum of visual artists
- 1974 Düsseldorf, winter exhibition
- 1975 Gelsenkirchen, city art award
- 1975 Cologne, international art market
- 1976 Rostov and Tbilisi, USSR
- 1977 Linz, Austria
- 1978 Lippstadt, Trost Gallery
- 1978 Munich, Art Association
- 1979 Cologne, international art market
- 1979 Munich, Art Association
Publications
- Kunstverein Unna - Heinrich Brockmeier - sculpture, drawings , 1973
- Wilhelm Nettmann - Heinrich Brockmeier, 29.2. - 26.3. 1976 , Märkisches Museum, Witten, 1976
- Utermann Gallery, Dortmund - Heinrich Brockmeier - Sculptures and Drawings , 1981, ISBN 3922987001
- Falko Herlemann (ed.) - Uschi Klaas + Heinrich Brockmeier, canvas pictures with iron constructions, gouaches, bronze sculptures , no year
- Galerie Utermann - Heinrich Brockmeier - Sculptures and Drawings , 1985
- Andrea Firmenich - Uschi Klaas and Heinrich Brockmeier. Space - surface - color , Kunsthalle Emden, 1992
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Galerie Utermann, Dortmund - Heinrich Brockmeier - sculptures and drawings , 1981
- ↑ a b Internet site Kunstgebiet Ruhr ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ website Artprice.com
- ↑ a b c d website Artibeau.de
- ↑ a b Website Galerie Schemm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b website Twoart.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brockmeier, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |