Heinrich Siepmann (painter)

Heinrich Siepmann (born November 30, 1904 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † December 16, 2002 there ) was a painter and belonged to the second generation of constructivism .

Live and act

From 1925 to 1927 he studied at the Folkwang School in Essen with Josef Urbach , Karl Kriete and Joseph Enseling . In 1948 he was a co-founder of the artist group “ Junge westen ” in Recklinghausen . Siepmann's early figurative works from the 1930s and 1940s already fascinate with their strict compositional image structure, and the artist who was closely associated with Mülheim throughout his life continued to develop his path towards non-objective, geometrical abstraction in the post-war years. Together with Thomas Grochowiak , Emil Schumacher , Ernst Hermanns , Hans Werdehausen and Gustav Deppe , he was one of the founding members of the artist group “young west”, which was initiated in Recklinghausen and who wanted to contribute to the region of Rhine and Ruhr after the art dictation by the German National Socialists to shape it again into a cultural landscape. After Siepmann briefly abandoned formal rigor in favor of informal structures in the 1960s due to the influences of his artist colleagues, at the end of the decade and especially from the 1970s onwards, he increasingly turned to a formal language that understands color and form on the canvas as independent pictorial means and shows this in compositions that are completely harmoniously balanced. It is perhaps Siepmann's greatest achievement that, despite his calculated creations, there is always a lyrical element inherent in the works.

Heinrich Siepmann was represented at a total of 36 major DKB exhibitions in Germany and abroad between 1953 and 1996 .

Awards and memberships

• 1948: Co-founder of the artist group Junge westen , Art Prize Young West
• 1956: Member of the West German Artists Association
• 1954: Young West Art Prize
• 1956: Member of the German Association of Artists
• 1962: Ruhr Prize for Art and Science from the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr
• 1979: Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize from the city of Hagen
• 1979: Art Prize of the Artists , Düsseldorf
• 1981: Grand Prix of the 3rd International Print Biennial, Seoul
• 1994: Ring of Honor of the City of Mülheim
• 1997: Ida-Gerhardi-Förderpreis , Lüdenscheid

literature

• Ferdinand Ullrich (Ed.): Heinrich Siepmann. Monograph, catalog raisonné of the paintings. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-929040-41-7 .
• Heinrich Siepmann. Paintings and collages from 1972 to 1991. Exhibition catalog June 8 - July 31, 1991, Galerie Neher Essen, texts: Tayfun Belgin, Essen 1991, ISBN 3-923806-15-5 .
• Heinrich Siepmann. Paintings, collages, pastels. Exhibition catalog, February 3 - March 9, 1996, ed. v. Galerie Neher, text: Eva Müller, Pulheim 1996.
• Heinrich Siepmann - unforgotten - pictures. Exhibition catalog October 13 - November 16, 2007, ed. v. Galerie Neher Essen, text: Eva Müller-Remmert, Goch 2007.

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Heinrich Siepmann biography
• Literature by and about Heinrich Siepmann in the catalog of the German National Library