Heinrich Everz

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Heinrich Everz (born June 9, 1882 in Lippstadt , † March 7, 1967 in Coesfeld ) was a German wood cutter and graphic artist .

Life

After the death of his father in 1891, the family moved to Coesfeld (Westphalia). At the beginning of the 20th century, Everz began to work part-time with drawing, painting and woodcut. During the First World War he met the drawing teacher, wood cutter and painter Philipp Reisdorf, who came from Cologne, and received from him an artistic training as well as the advice to use his drawing talent entirely for the woodcut.

Everz has been able to live full-time from his work as a woodcutter and graphic artist since 1919. Everz gave up his position as a manager of a Coesfeld company and from then on moved with the sketch pad through the Münsterland in order to capture the atmosphere of the cities and villages, cultural monuments and the landscape. He mainly implemented the results in woodcuts. In 1935 Everz had a first major exhibition of his works of art. At the peak of his artistic career that followed, he became the conversation partner of Benno Happe, Karl Wagenfeld (1869 to 1939) and Augustin Wibbelt (1862 to 1947).

After the Second World War, further exhibitions of his wood cutting art followed. The solo exhibitions from 1963 in the Falkenhof Museum in Rheine, from 1965 in the art house of the city of Bocholt and - posthumously - from 1976 in the cultural center Burg Vischering in Lüdinghausen (Westphalia) deserve special mention. Heinrich Everz died on March 7, 1967 in Coesfeld. He was also honored for his commitment to the reconstruction of churches and cultural monuments in his hometown, which was destroyed in the war. For this he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 1962 .

literature

  • Elisabeth Köster: Heinrich Everz - the Coesfeld master of woodcut art . In: Haltern Yearbook 1991 (Haltern 1990)

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personal data
SURNAME Everz, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westphalian Merian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood cutter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1967
Place of death Coesfeld