Heinz Friedrich (painter)

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Heinz Friedrich (born February 19, 1924 in Schwetzingen ; † March 24, 2018 there ) was a German painter and wood cutter .

Life

Heinz Friedrich, self-portrait (drawing 1989)

Heinz Friedrich completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and construction technician from 1939 to 1942; from 1942 to 1945 he was a soldier. He then studied from 1946 to 1948 at the Stuttgart Academy with Hermann Sohn and in 1948/49 at the Karlsruhe Academy with Wilhelm Schnarrenberger and Otto Laible . He has been a freelance artist since 1950. In 1956, Heinz Friedrich attended the Salzburg Summer Academy with Oskar Kokoschka and Giacomo Manzù . Heinz Friedrich worked as a set designer on various stages. In 1968 he began to deal with the technique of color woodcut and in 1970 became a member of “ XYLON". Numerous graphic editions, portfolios, posters and book illustrations were created. Heinz Friedrich also became particularly well known as a portraitist. He had a close friendship with Bruno Müller-Linow . Works in museum and public collections etc. a. Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Villa Hammerschmidt / Bonn, Schwetzingen collection. Heinz Friedrich remained true to expressive realism throughout his life.

Honors

  • 1989 scholarship from the Edward Munch Foundation in Ekely / Oslo.
  • 1994 Awarded the Karl Theodor Medal of the city of Schwetzingen

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Heinz Friedrich, König, Beauty and Death (color woodcut 1986)
Heinz Friedrich, Kampfhahn (color woodcut 1985)
Heinz Friedrich, The Sunday Dress (Oil 1985)
  • 1959 Durban (South Africa)
  • 1966 u. 1987 Stuttgart
  • 1971 Kunstverein Speyer
  • 1972 Kunstverein Heidelberg
  • 1974 Gutenberg Book Guild, Mannheim
  • 1976 Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
  • 1977 Saalbau-Galerie , Darmstadt
  • 1978 Retrospective of the Pfalzgalerie in Kaiserslautern
  • 1980 Seedamm Kulturzentrum Pfäffikon (CH)
  • 1981 Villa Hammerschmidt , Bonn
  • 1985 Darmstadt
  • 1989 Schwetzingen Art Association; Amrum u. Wyk / Foehr
  • 1990 To the old office building cellar, Schaffhausen (CH)
  • 1992 Upper Hessian Museum, Giessen
  • 1994 Schwetzingen Art Association
  • 1995 Old City Palace, Zug (CH)
  • 2000 Gotha
  • 2001 Herrenhof Mußbach, Weinstrasse
  • 2003 Art Association Aurich
  • 2007 Gleisweiler
  • 2008 Brühl
  • 2009 Schwetzingen Art Association
  • 2011 Gallery Kätelhön Möhnesee and Winterbach

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1954 "Young Baden Art", State Art Gallery Baden-Baden
  • 1957 Baden-Wuerttemberg Art Prize, State Art Gallery Baden-Baden
  • 1971 Berlin (with XYLON )
  • 1975 State Art Exhibition Rhineland-Palatinate (traveling exhibition through Norway)
  • 1977 3rd Miami Graphics Biennal, Miami / Floria (USA)
  • 1980 4th Miami Graphics Biennal, Miami / Floria (USA) a. 8th International Poster Biennale Warsaw (Poland)
  • 1981 Poster Biennale Lathie (Finland)
  • 1982 Vienna and Luxembourg (with XYLON )
  • 1983 Traces et Signes, Sundgau (France) and Biennale Boissy, Paris (France)
  • 1984 German printmaking, Baku (USSR)
  • 1985 Stuttgart (with XYLON )
  • 1986 Poster Biennale Lahti (Finland) a. Graphic Triennal Museum of modern Art, Toyama (Japan)
  • 1988 State Representation for Baden-Württemberg, Bonn a. Graphic Triennal Museum of modern Art, Toyama (Japan)
  • 1989 artist against war (with XYLON ), Berlin and Warsaw (Poland)
  • 1991 German relief graphic 90, Winterthur (Switzerland)
  • 1993 Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe "Schnarrenberg students"
  • 1995 XYLON Schwetzingen
  • 1995–1998 Nordwest-Kunst, Wilhelmshaven art gallery
  • 1999 Project Totentanz, Museum Bochum
  • 2003 memento mori, Gotha Castle
  • 2008 Kunstkreis Aichwald , together with Ruth Stahl in the Protestant parish hall of Aichwald-Aichschieß

Literature (selection)

  • Hans Helmut Jansen / Rosemarie Jansen: The Salzburg great world theater. In: Illustration 63, Issue 1, 1966, pp. 12–15.
  • Heinz Friedrich: black and white. Schwetzingen 1975.
  • Richard Belm: To the woodcuts by Heinz Friedrich. In: Graphische Kunst, issue 19, (2/1982), pp. 52–54.
  • Heinz Friedrich: Painting a. Graphic. Speyer 1971.
  • Heinz Friedrich: World of Wine. Landau / Palatinate 1976.
  • Heinz Friedrich: Heinz Friedrich. Schwetzingen 1981.
  • Heinz Friedrich: watercolors. Landeck 1982.
  • Heinz Friedrich: Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart 1986.
  • Heinz Friedrich: painting, drawings + color woodcuts. Bad Schinznach, CH, 1989
  • Heinz Friedrich: Upper Hessian Museum Giessen, Giessen 1992.
  • Heinz Friedrich. Schwetzingen 1999
  • Frieder Gadesmann : From the school of seeing. Ruth Stahl and Heinz Friedrich. Aichwald 2008.
  • City of Schwetzingen (Hrsg.): The Schwetzingen collection Heinz Friedrich. Schwetzingen 2009.

Portfolios

  • Bible stories (with six woodblock prints). Rottendorf 1978.
  • Healing methods in art (with twelve colored woodcuts). Flörsheim 1981.
  • The island of Amrum (with eight woodblock prints). Schwetzingen 1989.
  • The great Salzburg World Theater (with seven woodblock prints). Schwetzingen 1966/1993.

Web links

Commons : Heinz Friedrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Lin: Mourning for Heinz Friedrich. Schwetzinger Zeitung, March 26, 2018, accessed on the same day.
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwetzingen
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2018
Place of death Schwetzingen