Heinrich Pilgrim

Heinrich pilgrims (* 24. January 1899 in Cologne , † 23. January 1993 ) was a German painter and early 1920s, member of the Cologne "Group of Progressive Artists", which is the Heinrich Hoerle , Anton Räderscheidt and Franz Wilhelm Seiwert had formed . In this circle he also got to know the German photographer August Sander , who was portrayed by Pilger in 1924.

In the early 1930s, Pilgrims moved to Paris. Here he had contacts to the literary scene of the time. At the beginning of the war they fled to Morocco. There he began work on his first tapestry in 1951.

In 1961 he returned to Cologne, where he lived and worked in isolation until his death in 1993. In this late creative phase, he created a large number of small and medium-sized oil paintings, pen drawings and tapestries.

Pilger remains faithful to the style of constructivism , which he has mastered with craftsmanship, throughout his life.

The vast majority of Heinrich Pilger's works have either been lost or are in private hands. Few works can be found in museums today, for example in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and in the graphic collection of the Museum Folkwang in Essen.