Heinrich Gillis Görtz

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Heinrich Gillis Görtz (born June 30, 1940 in Nettetal-Lobberich ; † September 11, 2010 in Nettetal-Lobberich) was a German painter and graphic artist .

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Heinrich Gillis Görtz completed an apprenticeship as a designer for textile printing from 1955 and then worked in this profession. He attended evening courses at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld . In 1960/1961 he studied for two semesters at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Ferdinand Macketanz , Gerhard Hoehme and Karl Otto Götz . 1961/1962 he studied free graphics at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld with Rolf Sackenheim and from 1962 painting and free graphics again at the Art Academy Düsseldorf with Joseph Fassbender .

In 1964 his first works were shown in exhibitions in Krefeld and Düsseldorf . In 1965 he received a scholarship from the Ernst Poensgen Foundation in Düsseldorf. He dealt with cerebral structures and studied at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . On a trip to Morocco he studied Islamic art .

In 1966 he opened a studio in Düsseldorf and became a lecturer in drawing at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld. 1966/1967 he was a master student of Joseph Fassbender at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. From 1969 he created his etching portfolio Zerebral . In 1974 he was appointed professor at the design department at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld and moved to Krefeld in 1976.

In 1980 Heinrich Gillis Görtz began working on his Baarlo cycle , which he expanded to include a total of 27 partly multi-part sheets and large-format lithographs by 1992 . In 1985 he traveled to the Soviet Union with Axel Vater and Ingo Ronkholz and again in 1988 with Ingo Ronkholz. In 1987 he set up a studio and a workshop in Nettetal-Lobberich, where he also lived. In 1990 Heinrich Gillis Görtz fell ill and was released from his official duties at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld. In 1992 he retired . He continued to devote himself to artistic work. In 2003 he made the cover picture and an art supplement for the annual publication Muschelhaufen .

Heinrich Gillis Görtz was a member of the West German Artists Association from 1998 and of the German Artists Association from 2001 . From 1983 he was married to the painter and draftsman Katrin Berger.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 2007: “By hand. Current positions of hand drawing ”, themed exhibition of the West German Artists Association, Art Museum Bochum
  • 2008: "by hand", Academy Franz-Wärme-Haus, Münster
  • 2009: “Environment work”, Project Space German Artists Association, Berlin
  • 2014: "You and your exhibitions - 20 years of exhibition activity for art from NRW", art from North Rhine-Westphalia, Aachen

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Musselpile 43 (2003)
  2. ↑ Entry ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kunstverein-xanten.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstverein-xanten.de
  3. ↑ Leopold-Hoesch-Museum shows early works by Heinrich Gillis Görtz ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on dueren.de, January 22, 2007.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dueren.de
  4. ↑ Heinrich Gillis Görtz - printmaking. The portfolio works ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on franz-hitze-haus.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.franz-hitze-haus.de
  5. ↑ Culture Report 2009/2010. Annual report of the cultural department of the state capital Düsseldorf, p. 153 (PDF; 3.7 MB)
  6. ↑ Heinrich Gillis Görtz - From experience to form on kunstszene-vie.de
  7. ↑ Exhibition for Heinrich Gillis Görtz ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kunst-aus-nrw.nrw.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunst-aus-nrw.nrw.de
  8. ↑ Hartmann in large format. In: Hohenzollerische Zeitung . January 2, 2012.
  9. ↑ Handwritten at kunstmuseumbochum.de
  10. ↑ Maria Berentzen: Concentration on the line. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . April 9, 2008.
  11. ↑ Environment work ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the German Association of Artists  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  12. ↑ Exhibition catalog on hempel-schanzenbach.de (PDF; 2.2 MB)
  13. ↑ Press release on the website of the Omikron publishing house
personal data
SURNAME Goertz, Heinrich Gillis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Nettetal lobby
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2010
Place of death Nettetal lobby