Heinz Schildknecht

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Heinz Schildknecht (born April 23, 1913 in Essen ; † May 16, 1963 ibid) was a German painter who, as an artist, produced commissioned glass windows, murals, carpets and wire sculptures in industry and in cities.

life and work

After attending the Krupp secondary school in Essen, Heinz Schildknecht did an apprenticeship in the Association for Mining Interests from 1913 to 1933 and attended evening courses at the Folkwang School in Essen . In 1934 Heinz Schildknecht was first a student with Walter Maria Kersting and until 1939 at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Werner Heuser and Richard Schwarzkopf .

Heinz Schildknecht was listed in the membership list of the Waffen-SS (author John P. Moore) under the number 17 629, excluded in 1935. From 1939 to 1946 in World War II he was a soldier and was taken prisoner of war .

In 1948, Heinz Schildknecht made murals for RWE Reisholz (in the administration building of the former RWE power station in Düsseldorf-Reizholz) and in 1949 a tapestry for the DGB Düsseldorf meeting room (in Stromstrasse 8 in Düsseldorf on the banks of the Rhine). "The tapestry, which was produced by Mr. Schildknecht and his employees in months of work - 5000 hours of work - [...] is of extraordinarily significant artistic quality and of particularly great technical perfection, so that a numerical evaluation is almost impossible at all and a payment of the ideal value can hardly be regulated. "( Werner Heuser, June 15, 1949 )

1950 to 1952 working group with Max Burchartz : "It was the Folkwangprofessor Max Burchartz who, together with the Essen painter Heinz Schildknecht, founded this first initiative of art lovers in Essen after the Second World War under the programmatic name" Tatkreis Kunst der Ruhr eV ". The aim was to catch up with the present of the post-war period with dedicated exhibitions, trips, lectures, author readings and the publication of editions and to actively promote the visual arts. Even then, art was not understood as an isolated phenomenon, but always in a context of cultural history. This basic understanding has shaped the entire activities of the association from the beginning, which u. a. can still be seen in its interdisciplinary programming today. "( Kunstverein Ruhr )

Ruhr Almanac

In 1951 Schildknecht took part in the construction of Hall 1 of the BDA at the Constructa exhibition in Hanover in collaboration with Edgar Wedepohl . As a kind of central institute for building research, the exhibition aimed to promote a comprehensive rationalization of the building industry. He edited the Ruhr Almanach with Hubert Berke and his friend Erich Mülbe .

In 1952, Heinz Schildknecht produced two large portfolios for the mining industry in an artistic show on behalf of Ewald-König Ludwig Bergbau AG . These contained multi-colored linocuts with motifs from miner's life .

1953 Design of the glass windows with "mining motifs" for the Aurora colliery in Hattingen, which were on the back of the administration building, and the glass windows of the "Alte Leipziger Sach" in Bonn. 1954 to 1958 “Dance and Music” glass window, the “Bergmannstrachten und Bergparade” (antique glass / lead / black solder) glass window in the stairwell of the Rheinbabenschule and production of five murals and a wire sculpture for the city of Bottrop . 1956 Design of the miners' letters , in linocut, of the Hugo mine .

In 1957, Heinz Schildknecht made a tapestry and plaster cuts for the Schönberg Palace on behalf of the Ruhrknappschaft in Bochum , which was expanded into a rest home, and from 1961 to 1962 the glass windows for the STEAG Lünen administration building .

Heinz Schildknecht's works were characteristic of the abstracts of the 1950s, the informal and post-Bauhaus . Here his pictures were still very similar to those of the artists Max Burchartz, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart and Willi Baumeister , until they then moved in different directions in the 1960s. With Heinz Schildknecht, unfortunately, one can only guess where his path would have led, because his work in the late 1950s / 60s is divided into cubist, abstract and informal works . Heinz Schildknecht died in 1963 at the age of 50.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1957: Collective exhibition in Frankfurt, with portfolios and travel impressions
  • 1963: Collective exhibition at Galerie Maywald , Paris
  • 1989: Collective exhibition Flottmann-Hallen "Shift Change" Mining as reflected in the fine arts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/numery/numer117.html (pl)
  2. ↑ Arno Mohr: Vita of Heinz Schildknecht on the picture "Men", around 1940 http://www.ebay.de/itm/Heinz-Schildknecht-1913-1963-Maenner-um-1940-/261333068237
  3. ^ FP Büchner, Erich Mülbe (Red.): Ruhr-Almanach. From miners and mining , with 20 color plates and 62 line drawings by Hubert Berke. German coal mining management, Essen 1950.
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 5, 2015 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bgvr.org
  5. ↑ http://www.glasmalerei-ev.de/pages/b1578/b1578.shtml
  6. ↑ http://www.reviergalerie.de/bilder/UrkSchildknecht.htm
personal data
SURNAME Schildknecht, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1963
Place of death eat