Heinrich Tessmer (painter)

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Heinrich Tessmer, around 1980.
Photo: Ute Krause

Heinrich Tessmer (born April 12, 1943 in Rottluff ; † January 9, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

After attending the ABF at the Leipzig College of Graphics and Book Art from 1959 to 1962, Heinrich Tessmer learned the profession of poster painter in Karl-Marx-Stadt until 1964. He then began studying at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art , where his teachers included Kurt Robbel , Walter Womacka and Arno Mohr . From 1970 he was a master student with Walter Womacka, who was rector of the art college at the time. During this time he worked on the implementation of numerous building-related projects of Womacka, such as the fountain of friendship between the nations on Berlin's Alexanderplatz .

Tessmer decided to continue his professional career at the Weissensee School of Art. After graduation he became assistant and senior assistant, lecturer in 1976 and professor and head of the painting department in 1984 . In 1990 he was recalled as professor at his own request and he spent three years in Biarritz, France . He then worked freelance in Berlin until his death.

Heinrich Tessmer was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . From the VII art exhibition in 1975, his works were shown in the GDR art exhibition.

His works are in the possession of the Berlinische Galerie , the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin , the collection of the German Bundestag , the Pushkin Museum in Moscow , the Villa Merkel in Esslingen am Neckar and the Ludwig Collection .

Study trips took him to Romania (1970), Cuba (1978), the USSR (1978), Italy (1979), Syria (1980 and 1982), Colombia (1984) and France (1985).

Quotes

“You are the result of your emergence, anticipation and feeling, just as forgetting can create space for your imagination. Knowledge, on the other hand, is the accounting folder of some processes. Rather unimportant in painting. Free impulse of inner strength and spontaneity, on the other hand, allow art to blossom. It's not just the naive who prove that to us. "

- Heinrich Tessmer

“Right up to the end, his painting themes revolved around materials that reflect the ambivalent, the unfathomable, the changing and the conflict-laden. The paintings thus become colorful parables, for example for the relationship between the individual and society. 'I create for myself,' he noted, 'a world that I do not find in reality, and I often work my way into a bygone era'. "

- Ingeborg Ruthe : Berliner Zeitung from January 12, 2012

Awards

Works (selection)

"Antiobe", oil on canvas, 1994, 250 cm X 160 cm
"The Demonstrator", oil / canvas, 1990, 80 cm X 150 cm

architectural art

painting

  • 1977: sculptor RJ (oil)
  • 1979: The Walker (Oil)
  • 1982: The Message (oil / tempera)
  • 1986: riding group
  • 1996: Hephaestus and Aphrodite (oil / canvas, 95: 110 cm) private collection Viersen

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1971, 1973 ... 1995, 2002, 2005: Berlin
  • 1974: Schwedt
  • 1988: Kornwestheim
  • 1989: Munich
  • 1990: Luxembourg
  • 1992: Chicago
  • 1993: Herford Art Association
  • 1994: Oberhausen
  • 1997: Zurich
  • 1998: Denver
  • 2001, 2004: Bad Homburg
  • 2003, 2006: Cologne
  • 2013: Eisenhüttenstadt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingeborg Ruthe: nameless doubters and anonymous riders obituary in the Berliner Zeitung of January 12, 2012
  2. ↑ Marcus Kenzler: The view into the other world: Influences of Latin America on the fine arts of the GDR, part 1 (= theory of contemporary art. Volume 18). LIT, Münster 2012, ISBN 9783643110251 , p. 364 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Tessmer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottluff
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2012
Place of death Berlin