Heinrich slept

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Heinrich Schlief (born January 7, 1894 in Soest ; † July 13, 1971 there ) was an artist of Westphalian Expressionism .

Life

Schlief was born in the Westphalian Hanseatic city of Soest in 1894. His father is the haulier Mathias Schlief, his cousin the locally known blacksmith Bernhard Schlief. As a child, he originally wanted to be a teacher, but his elementary school teacher directed him into the technical field, so that he worked at the state building department and the cultural department in Soest.

In the following years he became interested in painting. When he saw Christian Rohlfs in 1907 and met the expressionist Wilhelm Morgner from Soest in 1909 , he finally decided to become a painter.

During the First World War he was employed as a division painter and press draftsman for the division newspaper 236 on the Western Front. He found his first audience in 1924 on the 1300th birthday of the city of Soest, when he was allowed to organize a special exhibition with 100 pictures. In the Third Reich , two of his paintings were classified as degenerate . It was only after the Second World War that he was able to pursue painting again in public and was accepted into the management of the West German Association of Artists .

style

Schlief liked to use different surfaces such as paper , glassine , hard fiber or cardboard and combined these with different painting materials such as chalk, water colors and oil paint to achieve special optical effects.

He mainly painted landscapes with motifs from the Soest Börde and the Sauerland . He also created paintings from Asian cultures. Asleep signed many pictures with his zodiac sign , the Capricorn.

A clear, high-contrast color scheme is typical of his works .

controversy

There is a controversy surrounding Schlief's work and its dating. Hans Jürgen Hoeck from Soest places the creation of many works by Schlief much later than they are dated in most exhibitions.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1924: Special show with over 100 works, Soest
  • 1958: Atelier exhibition Heinrich Schlief Osthofestrasse, Soest
  • 1959: Retrospective in the city of Soest's art pavilion
  • 1959: Art gallery at Gelsenkirchen Central Station , Gelsenkirchen
  • 1960: Atelier exhibition Heinrich Schlief Osthofenstrasse, Soest
  • 1961: Hellweg Museum, Unna
  • 1963: Café Aecker Brüderstraße, Soest
  • 1974: Hall of the Hotel Wilder Mann, Soest
  • 1977: Galerie Bernd Clasing, Münster
  • 1982: Hall of the Meiningser Gasthaus, Soest-Meiningsen
  • 2001: Galerie Kessler, Münster
  • 2004: Opening of the gallery Schlief Osthofenstrasse, Soest
  • 2009: Ministry for Schools and Further Education, Soest
  • 2009: haus nordhelle, Protestant conference center, Meinerzhagen
  • 2014: Galerie van Almsick, Epe (Westphalia)
  • 2015: Torhaus-Galerie, Münster (retrospective: paintings, graphics, drawings)
  • 2016: Galerie van Almsick, Gronau-Epe
  • 2016: Lüdinghausen Castle
  • 2018: Bocholt City Museum: Heinrich Schlief: "Color Music"
  • 2018. Galerie van Almsick, Gronau-Epe

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1922: Great Westphalian art exhibition, Gelsenkirchen
  • 1923: Great Westphalian art exhibition, Soest and Meschede
  • 1998: “Kunstszene Soest”, Galerie Pallas Verlag, Welver-Dinker

literature

  • Elvira Meisel-Kemper: Heinrich Schlief 1894-1971 , catalog, artist biography, Damwerth-Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-937183-30-5 .
  • Hans J. Hoeck: About the Soester painter Heinrich Schlief: Legends and Reality , Verlag Hans-Jürgen Hoeck, 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-041542-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The legacy of the blacksmith on the portal of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed on May 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b An Expressionist from Westphalia in the archive of the Westfälische Nachrichten on May 4, 2014, accessed on May 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b biography of Schliefs (original source: information brochure invitation to the art exhibition in Soest from January 16, 2009 to April 3, 2009 )
  4. ↑ Hans Jügen Hoeck: For Soest painter Heinrich asleep. Legends and Reality. Soest 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-041542-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Asleep, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Westphalian Expressionism artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Soest
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1971
Place of death Soest