Heinrich Steiner (painter)

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Heinrich Steiner (born October 16, 1911 in Kaiserslautern , † January 29, 2009 in Rome ) was a German painter .

Life

Heinrich Steiner was born as the son of the artistic director of the city theater. Between 1915 and 1920 he lived in Zurich, where his father built up a Viennese operetta ensemble. From 1922 he attended high school in Hamburg and in 1926 entered the Altona School of Applied Arts. In the same year he exhibited his first picture in the Altona Secession. After years of apprenticeship at the Hamburg State Theater and the Berlin State Opera (1927–29), he began working as a stage painter at the Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich (1929–32). There he attended the Academy of Fine Arts with Karl Caspar . From 1934 and 1938 he lived as a freelance painter in Düsseldorf and made study trips to Paris, Colmar, Strasbourg, Amsterdam and Zurich. In 1938 Steiner left Germany and went to Florence, where he joined the circle of German artists in Italy: Hans Purrmann , Rudolf Levy , Heinz Battke , Kurt Craemer , Eduard Bargheer , Karli Sohn-Rethel , Emy Roeder , Werner Gilles , Max Peiffer Watenphul . The Matisse student Rudolf Levy had a great influence on Steiner. After the German occupation he had to go into hiding. In Florence he studied at the Florentine Academy under Felice Carena (painter) and lived in the now legendary Pensione Bandini on the Piazza Santo Spirito in Florence, together with German artists such as Rudolf Levy and Eduard Bargheer. Steiner exhibited his paintings for the first time in 1939.

In 1946 he received the foreigner prize “Premio Colomba” at the Venice Biennale . Carlo Carrà and Massimo Campigli were honored at the same biennial . The important Venetian art dealer Carlo Cardazzi signed him. In 1948 he moved to Venice. In 1949 the contract with Cardazzi was not extended. He returned to Florence.

In 1950 he married Giuliana Toti in Florence and returned to Germany. He worked as an art teacher in the Hessian country school home, the Hermann-Lietz-Schule, Schloss Buchenau . There he was a drawing and art teacher and worked with boarding school students to create sets for school and teacher performances.

Steiner was a member of the Palatinate Secession, which also includes Hans Purrmann, Edvard Frank and Will Sohl. In 1953, the Palatinate District Association honored him with the Palatinate Prize for Painting . In 1959 he took on a teaching position at the private Anna Schmidt School in Frankfurt am Main. This lasted until 1974. In 1966 he built a summer house in Lerici on the Gulf of La Spezia in Liguria , where he spent his summer months. In the 1960s he designed the complete equipment for a mosque in Libya. In 1974 he definitely returned to Italy, where he worked between Rome and Lerici. He lived in Rome until his death.

Exhibitions

  • 1939 First exhibition, Circolo degli Stranieri, Florence
  • 1941 Il Ponte Gallery, Florence
  • 1946 Venice Biennale (Foreigners Prize "Premio Colomba")
  • 1946 Il Cenacolo Gallery, Florence
  • 1949 Gallery Il Cavallino by Carlo Cardazzi in Venice
Carlo Cardazzi Gallery Il Naviglio in Milan
  • 1953 Landesgewerbeanstalt Kaiserslautern (Palatinate Prize for Painting)
  • 1956 State Art School Mainz
  • 1959 Prestel Gallery, Frankfurt / Main
Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath
Frankfurt Secession
  • 1964 Proposte Gallery, Florence
  • 1965 Società di Belle Arti, Genoa
  • 1967 Frankfurter Westend Gallery, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1968 Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Cologne
  • 1969 Hellhof Gallery, Kronberg im Taunus
  • 1971 Frankfurter Westend Gallery, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1974 Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt / Main (* German artists in Florence during the war ")
  • 1974 Seifert-Binder Gallery, Munich
  • 1976 Galerie Schneider, Rome
  • 1978 Frankfurter Westend Gallery, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1979 Goethe Institute, Trieste
  • 1980 Indiscreto Cultural Institute, Rome
  • 1981 Goethe Institute, Padua
  • 1981 Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt / Main ("On Italian art after 1945, German artists and Italy")
  • 1981 State Theater Darmstadt, with Elia Ajolfi
  • 1983 Frankfurter Westend Gallery, Frankfurt / Main ("Italy Pictures")
  • 1983 Gallery l'attico-esse arte, Rome
  • 1984 Frankfurter Westend Gallery, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1984 "Westfalenblatt" art studio, Bielefeld
  • 1986 Oro del Tempo Gallery, Rome
  • 1987 Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt / Main ("Goethe in Italy")
  • 1988 Cortina Gallery, Rome
  • 1988 Lurgi administration, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1989 Galerie Dürr, Munich
  • 1990 gallery in C, Cologne
  • 1991 Koch Gallery, Hanover
  • 1991 Frankfurt Westend Gallery, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1992 Brigitte Wagner Gallery, Bonn
  • 1997 Hagemeier Gallery, Frankfurt / Main ("Das Licht des Südens", three Italian-German artists: Max Peiffer Watenphul, Eduard Bargheer and Heinrich Steiner)
  • 2000 Galerie del Monte, Forio / Ischia
  • 2001 Galerie Koch, Hanover
  • 2006 Galerie Koch, Hanover
  • 2007 Galerie Weick, Düsseldorf ("In the light of the south: exhibition with paintings and watercolors by Max Peiffer Watenphul and Heinrich Steiner)

Portfolios

  • "Monte Branzi", 5 color lithographs
  • "Seligenstädter Gedichte", 3 b / w etchings, text by Dieter Hoffmann. Petri Press Kransberg 1973
  • "Cancelli a Roma", 5 woodcuts in color, 1979
  • "From the Ovid", 6 etchings with lines by the poet in the German translation by Johan Heinrich Voss, Petri Presse Kransberg 1974
  • "Goethe and Italy", 4 etchings, 1982

Bibliophile books

  • Eduard Mörike: The hand of the Jezerte. With an afterword by Dieter Hoffmann. Overall design in woodcuts by Heinrich Steiner. Petri Presse, Kransberg 1980 (edition: 150)
  • Eduard Mörike: Poems. Artistically designed by Heinrich Steiner. Bussesche Verlagshandlung, Herford 1984
  • SPQR Roman Notes by Werner Wirthle. With 6 drawings by Heinrich Steiner. Petri Press Kransberg 1984
  • Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff: Poems. With illustrations by Heinrich Steiner. Verlag Busse + Seewald, Herford 1985

Bibliographical references

  • Heinrich Steiner: Pensione Bandini, 1943, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 7, 1976
  • Heinrich Steiner. With an introduction by Dieter Hoffmann. Edited by the German-Italian Association and the Westend Gallery in Frankfurt, 1979
  • Steiner. Exhibition catalog l'attico-esse-arte. With an introduction by Ennio Pouchard, Roma 1983
  • Heinrich Steiner, watercolors. Exhibition catalog Frankfurter Westend Galerie. With an introduction by Salvatore A. Sanna, Frankfurt / Main 1984
  • Heinrich Steiner. Exhibition catalog Galleria Oro del Tempo. With an introduction by Domenico Petrocelli. Roma 1986
  • Heinrich Steiner. Invitation to linger. Italian motifs. With an introduction by Rago T. Ebeling. Verlag Busse + Seewald, Herford, 1987
  • Heinrich Steiner. From Matthias Arnold. In Weltkunst / Heft 12 from June 15, 1989, series: Deutsche Postexpressionisten
  • Heinrich Steiner. Pictures of an Italian German. Essay by Dieter Hoffmann. Belser Verlag 1993
  • Heinrich Steiner. Ninety years. Exhibition catalog Galerie Koch for the 90th birthday. With an introduction by Ludwig Zerull . Hanover, 2001

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice from family and friends, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 7, 2009, issue 56, page 36
  2. ↑ Palatinate Prize for Fine Arts. District Association of the Palatinate, accessed on November 3, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2009
Place of death Rome