Heinz Friege

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Heinz Friege (born August 4, 1923 in Dresden ; † July 4, 2012 in Remscheid ) was a German painter and graphic artist , gallery owner and art educator .

Life

Heinz Friege returned seriously injured from the Second World War and studied from 1947 to 1951 at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, among others with Will Grohmann, free and commercial graphics . Engaged in the student council, he was finally threatened with arrest by the Stasi and fled to the West with his wife Gundis and two children, where he took up a job as a script painter in Lennep in 1952 .

Later he worked as an art teacher in Ennepetal ; from 1960 to 1983 he was also Remscheid's last city graphic artist . His tasks included the design of certificates and theater posters. His early works, including hand-calligraphed tablets, were shown in the Städtische Graphothek in Remscheid in 2010.

Together with his partner Gundis, Heinz Friege ran the workshop gallery Gundis and Heinz Friege , a gallery for concrete art, in his private home in Remscheid from 1985 to 2005 . For this, the couple received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1998.

Friege brought around 48,000 color photographs with him from his study trips, which he went on from 1960. He mainly documented Romanesque sculptures and architecture in France and Spain. The 35 mm slides have been in the picture archive of the University of Marburg since 2004.

Exhibitions

  • 2010: Proportionen - Progressionen , work by Heinz Friege. Forum Concrete Art, Erfurt, Peterskirche
  • 2010: Calligraphies by Heinz Friege. Graphics library of the municipal library, Remscheid
  • 2006: 20 years of the workshop gallery Gundis and Heinz Friege, anniversary exhibition, Städtische Galerie Remscheid (with catalog)
  • 1995: Workshop of concrete art: 10 years Galerie Gundis and Heinz Friege Remscheid , Städtische Galerie Remscheid and theater gallery (with catalog)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WORKSHOP GALLERY REMSCHEID. In: gundis.net. Retrieved August 17, 2020 .
  2. ^ Anne-Kathrin Reif: Remscheid artist and gallery owner Heinz Friege is dead. In: rga.de. July 10, 2012, accessed August 17, 2020 .
  3. ^ German Documentation Center for Art History - Photo Archive Photo Marburg. Retrieved August 17, 2020 .

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SURNAME Friege, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist, gallery owner and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2012
Place of death Remscheid