Heinrich Neuy

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Heinrich Neuy (1995)

Heinrich Neuy (born July 27, 1911 in Kevelaer , † March 24, 2003 in Steinfurt ) was a German painter, furniture designer and architect. His design orientation was shaped by classical modernism . After an apprenticeship as a carpenter, he studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau with Josef Albers , Wassily Kandinsky and the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe .

life and work

After attending school, Heinrich Neuy began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in 1925. On Christmas Eve he got his first paint box and began, encouraged by the landscape painter Josef Pauels and inspired by a Bauhaus exhibition in the Folkwang Museum in Essen , with landscape and portrait studies. After completing his apprenticeship, he attended the arts and crafts school in Krefeld from 1928 to 1930 . The furniture and furnishing designs created there are characterized by clear functionality and rigor. Heinrich Neuy received an award for special achievements in freehand drawing.

He continued his studies from 1930 to 1932 at the Bauhaus in Dessau, a. a. with the architects and artists Wassily Kandinsky , Josef Albers , Hinnerk Scheper , Lilly Reich , Ludwig Hilberseimer , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe . Karlfried Graf Dürckheim led the psychology course . Due to the worsening political situation, Heinrich Neuy took leave of absence for a practical seminar in March 1932, but did not return to the Bauhaus, which he closed in September 1932 - which he was not to visit again until more than 50 years later - but completed it in the years of He trained as a carpenter from 1932 to 1937, took over his father-in-law's carpentry and opened a furniture and handicraft shop in Borghorst. Neuy was able to record his first successes in 1933 with his first furniture exhibition “Modernes Wohnen”, among other things he received commissions from Theater Berlin.

During the Second World War he served as a soldier in the Air Force from 1940 to 1944, became a prisoner of war in the United States and was interned in four different camps until 1946. In Wyoming and Nebraska he sketched portraits of comrades, which he used decades later for a series of pictures with heads made from geometric patterns.

In 1946 Heinrich Neuy was taken prisoner by the English. An inflammation of the leg required his admission to a hospital. Thanks to the meeting with an older Scottish military doctor, who provided him with the appropriate material, he was able to continue his occupation with abstract painting there. During this time five "thunderstorm" pictures were created, as well as extensive cycles on the subjects of " poetry " and " joy ". In October, the artist returned to Borghorst from captivity and resumed his work in the carpentry business and as a training master (1947).

This was followed in 1960 by the resumption of the exhibition activity and the occupation with the evocative painting developed by him , in 1970 Neuy was appointed to the Welbergener Kreis , one year later he started work on the watercolor series "Architektura". From 1982 he worked with the composer Buster Flood , who lives in Borghorst , who set Heinrich Neuy's pictures to music, while the latter was inspired by the pieces of music to create pictorial compositions. From 1987 Heinrich Neuy worked on the cycle “Classical Character Pictures”, in 1989 he opened his own gallery.

In 1994 the exhibition Heinrich Neuy, Painting and Graphics was on view at the Bauhaus Dessau . On the occasion of his 85th birthday, the art object he created "Energy, Righteousness, Activity", a variant of the Bauhaus logo, was inaugurated in 1996.

Heinrich Neuy died in Borghorst in 2003 at the age of 91. Two years later, the Neuy Art Association , recognized as a non-profit, was founded in Kevelaer, his hometown .

museum

Heinrich Neuy's study in the museum

On June 2, 2011, the Heinrich Neuy Bauhaus Museum with works by the artist was opened in the Borghorst district of Steinfurt . It is located in the Stiftskurienhaus of the Canonical and Ladies' Monastery of Borghorst, which was dissolved in 1811, and where its book collections are also housed after they had been made accessible and preserved by the Münster University and State Library.

Awards and honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Gudrun Wessing: Neuy, Heinrich. In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, KG Saur, Berlin / Boston 2019, (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
personal data
SURNAME Neuy, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, furniture designer and architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kevelaer
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2003
Place of death Steinfurt