Heinz Liers

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Heinz Liers (born February 27, 1905 in Berlin , † September 9, 1985 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German painter . The theme of his main work was the recurring sequence of geometric color fields based on constructivism .

Life

After studying at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin from 1924 to 1927 with Peter Fischer and studying in Althagen / Ahrenshoop , made possible by a scholarship from the Berlin Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1927/28, Liers moved to the State Art Academy in Königsberg in 1929 . Until 1930 he was a master student of the landscape painter Alfred Particle . From 1930 he lived in Nemmersdorf (former East Prussia , today Mayakovskoye ), where he worked as a freelance teacher. From 1939 to 1946 there followed military service and imprisonment with subsequent expulsion. Large parts of his early work were lost. From 1946 to 1972 Liers worked as an art teacher in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) and Varel , as an art critic for the Nordwest-Zeitung and partly as a freelance artist. Since 1972 he has worked exclusively as a freelancer, first in Hanover , from 1977 in Denkendorf (Württemberg) and then from 1983 in Ludwigsburg . His work has been shown in various solo and group exhibitions.

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Like many of the so-called “lost generation”, Liers was looking for a new artistic beginning after the Second World War. Initially, the orientation towards styles such as Expressionism and Cubism (e.g. “Magician in the Night”, 1953, “Stage Design”, 1954) predominated, but gradually broke away from representational painting. Since the end of the 1950s he approached constructivism (e.g. “Seemingly cool”, 1959, “City in Morocco”, 1960), from which he subsequently developed his own style. The motif of the recurring sequence of geometric color fields in a painting (e.g. "Frisian disturbance", 1970, "Meditation panel", 1978) is particularly prominent. This “row rhythm” is repeatedly and deliberately broken through the occasional use of different colors and representational elements in some works (e.g. “Singer Behind the Blinds”, 1984). The preferred medium was watercolor and opaque colors, often in combination with a ballpoint pen and pencil. The artistic and written estate has been preserved in the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg and in the Oldenburg City Museum since 2015 . There are also works u. a. in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and in the Sprengel Museum Hannover .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1959 "New works in the Wendtorf gallery", Wendtorf gallery, Oldenburg
  • 1965 "Heinz Liers", City Hall at Delft, Emden
  • 1973 “Image sequences by Heinz Liers”, Gallery 15 of the Graz Secession
  • 1975 "Heinz Liers", Galerie Gruppe Grün, Bremen
  • 1980 “New Works by Heinz Liers”, Galerie Lutz, Stuttgart
  • 1985 "Heinz Liers - New Work", Bergkelter Murr
  • 1988/89 “Heinz Liers - Works from 1943–1985”, Forum am Schlosspark, Ludwigsburg and Oldenburg City Museum
  • 1993 "Heinz Liers", Galerie Dorn, Stuttgart
  • 2002 "Heinz Liers - Poetic series rhythm with irritations", State Archives Ludwigsburg
  • 2006 “With a fine line - Heinz Liers (1905–1985) in Ludwigsburg”, Ludwigsburg Municipal Museum
  • 2016 Heinz Liers. Rhythm and variation. State Museum Oldenburg

Literature (selection)

  • Curt Glaser, Junge Künstler, pp. 245–249, in: Kunst und Künstler, Volume VI, vol. XXIX, Munich 1931, p. 248.
  • Clément Morro, Les Artistes vus aux recents Salons. Exposition artistique de Königsberg, pp. 4–12, in: La Revue Moderne. Illustrée des Arts et de la Vie, issue 17, vol. 37, Paris 1937, p. 5 f.
  • Art uit Oldenburg / Art from Groningen, exhibition cat. Groninger Museum für Stadt und Land, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Groningen 1958, no p.
  • Constructivism and its successor in examples from the holdings of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and its graphic collection, exhib.-cat. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1974, p. 90.
  • Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (ed.), The hand drawings of the present II. New acquisitions since 1970, Stuttgart 1982, p. 54.
  • Prussia Society Duisburg and Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg (ed.), Königsberg Art Academy 1845–1945, Bonn / Regensburg 1982, p. 84.
  • bbk Oldenburg (ed.), Documentation for the 35th anniversary of the Association of Visual Artists Landesgruppe Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1982, p. 80 f.
  • Gunther Thiem (ed.), Heinz Liers. Works from 1943–1985, Ludwigsburg 1988.
  • Gunther Thiem, thanks to artist on his 80th birthday on December 19, 1997, Munich / Berlin 1997, p. 95 f, ISBN 3-422-06230-0 .
  • Andreas von Seggern / Rainer Stamm (eds.), Heinz Liers (1905–1985). Rhythm and Variation, Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0343-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A term chosen by the artist himself, quoted in based on: Gunther Thiem, thanks to the artist on his 80th birthday on December 19, 1997, Munich / Berlin 1997, p. 96.
  2. ↑ Flyer Heinz Lier's Rhythm and Variation. June 19 to September 11, 2016. State Museum Oldenburg
  3. ↑ Heinz Liers: Rhythm and Variation. Exhibition from June 19 to September 11, 2016. Cooperation project with the State Museum for Art and Cultural History ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on stadtmuseum-oldenburg.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtmuseum-oldenburg.de
  4. ↑ HEINZ LIERS - RHYTHM AND VARIATION. June 19 to September 11, 2016 in the Oldenburg Castle ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2016 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. at landesmuseum-ol.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesmuseum-ol.de
personal data
SURNAME Liers, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1985
Place of death Ludwigsburg