Heinz Breloh

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"Life Size", 1994, bronze sculpture. Location: Moltkeplatz , Essen
Life size Magdeburg, 1995, bronze
Life size II, 1985, bronze, in front of the Nikolaikirche (Wismar)

Heinz Breloh (* 1940 in Hilden ; † 2001 in Cologne ) was an internationally known German artist. Among other things, he co-founded the magazine “nummer” and the exhibition forum “depot” in Cologne in 1971.

Life

After completing his studies with Fritz Wotruba in Vienna, Heinz Breloh found his expression mainly in photography in video art , performance and installation . He came back to sculpture through dealing with these media . He used cast iron , terracotta , plaster of paris and bronze as material .

subjects

Important topics of his work are:

  • “Life size” : “Walking around in a fixed choreography, the artist dances around the soft plaster mass. He throws himself against it with his whole body - legs, hips, chest, back, head - embraces the block with his arms, pierces it with his knees and legs, moves his head back and forth and thus grinds a horizontal upper edge. It presses, turns, and winds according to a precisely measured program, in and against the block, plows through the plaster inwards, feels and spans it from the outside. He pulls his body path until the material has become hard and resistant. The finished sculpture holds the body shape as a negative volume. It is (in the classic sense of memory) a monument to the trace of the body. ”( Manfred Schneckenburger : Body actions against the world of apparatus, in:“ Sculpture as body trace - Heinz Breloh ”, p. 17, 2008 see below).
  • “Six-sender” : In these works “… Breloh repeatedly addresses the sculptor himself as a“ six-sender ”, ie with the six sensual powering heads, arms, legs and genitals and his work on a sculpture and those flowing out of him and reaching him there Lines of force of movement… ”(Marina von Assel: Heinz Breloh - Sculptures and Drawings, in:“ Sculpture as a body trace - Heinz Breloh ”, p. 72, 2008 see below).

Heinz Breloh lived and worked mainly in Cologne; his artistic legacy was looked after by his partner, the artist Krimhild Becker, until her death. Since then, Heinz Breloh's brothers have been looking after it as the “Breloh heirs” together with his native Hilden .

In 1989 Heinz Breloh received (together with Beate Terfloth) the art award of the German Association of Artists .

resume

Works (selection)

Quote

  • “That is actually the wish that the plastic can come as close to you as a person, let's say sex, this very close. This is actually such an idea that the sculpture is a counterpart that cannot be more closely imagined. The work is finished when there is no longer any distance between the work and me. ”(Heinz Breloh, quoted in“ Sculpture as a body trace - Heinz Breloh ”, 2008, see below)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Art Prize of the German Association of Artists / 1989 Heinz Breloh, Düsseldorf and Beate Terfloth, Berlin ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 10, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de

Literature (selection)

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Breloh, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilden
DATE OF DEATH 2001
Place of death Cologne