Heinz Beck (painter)

Heinz Beck (* 1900 in Velbert - Nordrath , † 1981 in Gütersloh ) was a German painter.

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Beck was born the fourth of 13 children to a family of teachers. After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter , he attended the Barmen School of Applied Arts . At the age of 18 he was drafted into the military and trained in a machine gun company for the Western Front, where he was no longer used because the war ended.

After the end of the war he worked as a decorative painter and attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he graduated with honors. From 1926 to 1945 he taught as an art teacher at the Evangelisch Stiftisches Gymnasium in Gütersloh. After the Second World War worked as a painter. In 1952 he returned to school, until 1963 he was an art teacher at the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Realschule in Gütersloh.

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Beck created realistic, sometimes monumental, industrial, city and landscape views , which mainly show places in Westphalia , as well as portraits , including numerous portraits of children. There are parallels in motifs and style to the work of Paul Westerfrölke , who is also based in Gütersloh , but unlike him, Beck was not valued by the National Socialists, which is why he did not have to face the criticism that Westerfrölke was confronted with after the Second World War.

A large part of his estate - around 30 oil and pastel pictures and five portfolios full of drawings and linocuts - is kept in the Gütersloh City Archives . A painting by Beck showing the Apostle Church destroyed in 1944 and the old church square in Gütersloh can be seen in the Apostle Church.

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• Doris Pieper: Donors wanted for the restoration of a Beck picture , in: Die Glocke No. 181 of August 7, 2013, Gütersloher Volkszeitung
• Doris Pieper: Artists' bequests: Where there are clear limits to the archive , in: Die Glocke No. 28 from February 2, 2018, Gütersloher Volkszeitung