Heinz Heim

Heinz Heim (1894)

Heinz Heim (actually Heinrich Wilhelm Heim ; * December 12, 1859 in Darmstadt ; † July 12, 1895 there ) was a German genre painter and draftsman .

Life

Heinz Heim studied at the Munich Academy with Strähuber, Gyula Benczúr , Ludwig von Löfftz and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger . In 1886 Heim went to Paris , where William Adolphe Bouguereau , Tony Robert-Fleury and François Flameng were his teachers. He was also strongly influenced by Henri Fantin-Latour . In autumn Heim stayed in Mainz . In 1890 he lived in Munich again .

Because of his poor health, Heim turned down appointments to professorships and returned to his home in southern Hesse. He spent the summers of the following years in Schlierbach in the Odenwald . In the winter months he lived in Darmstadt .

Severe kidney disease from 1888 onwards resulted in impaired vision. Heim died as a result of his illness on July 12, 1895 in Darmstadt at the age of 35. Heinz Heim was buried in Darmstadt; his tomb was designed by Ludwig Habich .

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Heim joined the then nascent Munich Secession. First he painted pictures of poor people in the sense of the new theory of light and color.

In the last years of his life, Heim mainly created pictures with motifs from the Hessian peasant life.

Through model studies, he came to more and more mature stylistic and coloristic refinements. He preferred motifs from folk life, the farmers at work in the meadow and field and during the Sunday rest. Other motifs were taverns and apartments, children playing, girls at work in the trade and dreamy girls.

Heim created red chalk drawings of living models, nudes, figures in landscapes, etc. He made drawings with the softest possible surface treatment in vibrating light with the most delicate light and color transitions in front of an intentionally indefinite background. Heim called this "painting without colors".

Heim won diplomas and medals in Barcelona , Chicago , Dresden , London and Munich with his magnificent red chalk drawings .

Museums, galleries and exhibitions (selection)

• Beneficiary (Rötel, 1888).
• The Lonely Guest (1889).
• Knitting school in the Odenwald (1889).
• The concert (Rötel, 1891).
• Coffee company (Rötel, 1891).
• The lion's awakening (red chalk, 1891).
• The Forsaken / Girl at the Window (1892).
• Ball player (1893).
• Sunday morning in the Odenwald (1894).
• At the toilet (1894).
• The Half Nude of a Sleeping Boy (around 1894).
• Female act .
• The unfinished girl in the country ( idyll ).

Heim usually signed the paintings with their full name, year and place. He signed the drawings with Hz. Home, year and place.

After Heim's death, the Hessian Art Association held a memorial exhibition in Darmstadt. A large collective exhibition at the Hessian state exhibition in Darmstadt in 1908 also showed pictures and drawings by Heim.

literature

• Heinz Heim . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 278 .
• Heinz Heim . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 71, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023176-2 , p. 166 f.
• Roland Dotzert et al .: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , p. 362 ( darmstadt-stadtlexikon.de ).

Web links

Commons : Heinz Heim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Home, Heinz. Hessian biography. (As of December 12, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).