Heinz Hemrich

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Heinz Hemrich's work at the St. Christoph Church in Mainz

Heinz Hemrich (* 1923 in Schwäbisch Hall ; † December 8, 2009 ) was a German sculptor .

Life

After military service and imprisonment, Hemrich studied from 1942 to 1945 from 1946 to 1951 at the art school in Mainz , the art academy in Stuttgart and the art school in Darmstadt . From 1951 to 1953 he was an assistant at the Technical University of Darmstadt and since 1953 a freelance sculptor . In 1963 he accepted a teaching position at the State University for Art and Crafts Education in Mainz , since 1973 he worked as a lecturer , later as a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz in the field of art education . Hemrich had been a member of the Darmstadt Secession since 1957 and took part in several Secession exhibitions in Darmstadt

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Hemrich has carried out numerous orders for government buildings, universities, churches (including St. Nikolaus (Mombach) ) and schools. The focus of his work was "art in architecture" and small sculptural works. Among other things, he created a new buttress made of concrete with symbolic representations from the history of the city of Mainz for the (possible) baptismal church of Johannes Gutenberg , the St. Christoph Church in Mainz , whose ruins were preserved and expanded in 1963/64 . For the Evangelical Church of the Resurrection in Mainz, he took a late medieval motif from the illustrated Bible and designed it as a concrete frieze. Equestrian statue in front of the Generalfeldzeugmeisterkaserne in Mainz 1961.

Exhibitions

  • 1969 Small sculptures , cabinet in the Klingspormuseum, Offenbach am Main
  • 1969 16th annual exhibition of the New Darmstadt Secession , Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
  • 1971 artist from Mainz and Wiesbaden , Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
  • 1979 21st annual exhibition of the New Darmstadt Secession , Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Richard Barran: Art in architecture today: mural, relief and sculpture in contemporary architecture , J. Hoffmann, 1964, p. 162
  2. ^ Regional history: St. Christoph, Mainz
  3. ↑ Concrete frieze of the Resurrection Church
personal data
SURNAME Hemrich, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Hall
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2009