Heinz Schanz
Heinz Schanz (born March 21, 1927 in Genkingen, today Sonnenbühl , † October 11, 2003 in Karlsruhe ) was a German painter .
Life
Schanz was initially trained as a carpenter and moved to Karlsruhe in 1954 with his teacher HAP Grieshaber and the Bernstein School founded near Haigerloch . From 1956 to 1960 he studied at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts in a class from which well-known artists such as Hans Baschang , Walter Stöhrer and Horst Antes emerged . It was there that he met his future wife Else Winnewisser .
The authorship of the "Kopffüßler" sculptures, with which Horst Antes became known, was long disputed in the so-called "Karlsruhe School" and was attributed by some to Heinz Schanz. With the New Figuration , after a phase of complete non-representationalism , faces and human figures returned to painting in the 1960s . Heinz Schanz is considered to be one of the formative artists for post-war painting in southwest Germany. Well known is Hans Baschang's speech "Our Father."
“Even before the rediscovery of emotional and expressive painting, Schanz had inconspicuously preserved its qualities and kept them alive. [...] The final state of a picture has always been difficult to describe for him. "
Awards and grants
- 1977: Villa Romana Prize ( Florence )
- 1978: Scholarship from the Villa Massimo ( Rome )
- 1990: Art Prize of the City of Stuttgart
- 1993: Upper Swabian Art Prize
literature
- Klaus Gallwitz : Heinz Schanz: A picture book , for the exhibition in the town hall of Pliezhausen , 2001, ISBN 3-929431-11-4 .
- Roberto Orth: Heinz Schanz, New Works 1985-1989 Galerie Bernd Slutzky, Frankfurt, 1990, ISBN 3-9802488-2-8 .
- Dieter Honisch (Vorw.): 1945 1985. Art in the Federal Republic of Germany , (National Gallery, State Museums, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin), Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87584-158-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinz Schanz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Günther Wirth: Art in the German Southwest. Hatje, Stuttgart 1982. pp. 80 ff. ISBN 3-7757-0175-3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schanz, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Genkingen, today Sonnenbühl |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 2003 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |