Heinz Schrand

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Heinz Schrand (born August 23, 1926 in Hamburg ; † April 25, 2017 there ) was a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor whose forms of expression were based on realistic tendencies.

Life

From 1942, at the age of 16, Schrand attended a course on artistic design in teacher training with Bruno Jensen in Hamburg. A year later he completed an apprenticeship as a model carpenter and continued to attend the art courses of the teacher training.

From 1944 Schrand was in the Wehrmacht ; In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the US in France .

He was able to return to Hamburg in 1946, took part in the post-war clean-up work and worked as a joiner. He also attended Max Hermann Mahlmann's drawing lessons . Schrand later resumed teacher training courses and painted oil paintings and gouaches with realistic-symbolist themes like many artists did in the post-war period. The exhibition by the painter Franz Radziwill had a strong impact on the young artist.

From 1948 he created graphics and oil paintings based on the New Objectivity .

From 1952 to 1956 Schrand studied at the State Art School in Hamburg with Karl Kluth and with the guest lecturer Rolf Cavael . He took art history from the art historian Werner Haftmann .

Award

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From the mid-1950s onwards, Schrand became increasingly concerned with natural forms and the subjects of "decay" and "decay". He mainly implemented these ideas in printmaking and oil paintings . In the 1960s, the subjects of war and violence on the one hand and longing and search on the other were added.

Political and social events had a direct impact on his work. The oil painting “Victim of Violence” from 1968 refers to the assassination attempt on student leader Rudi Dutschke .

In the following decade, he mainly created surrealist works and works that are distantly related to the Fantastic Realism of the Vienna School . Schrand was inspired by poems, such as Charles Baudelaire's poem "Ein Aas". The roughly worked woodcut from 1987 shows a dying horse that could be one of the four apocalyptic riders .

From the mid-1980s, the issues of old age and aging moved increasingly into the focus of work. Since then, Schrand has also redesigned some of the subjects from his graphic work using the technique of oil painting, such as the quoted work “Ein Aas” (1988) or “Laufende” (1992).

In addition to working in two dimensions, Schrand has also been creating sculptures and art in buildings since the 1950s. He also wrote prose and poetry mostly in connection with his pictorial work .

He gave part of his graphic work to the forum for the bequests of artists .

Public collections that own works by Schrand

Own writings

  • Moonlighting. Text and graphics, 1987.
  • Three times seven. Prose and woodcuts, 1992.
  • Somewhere in the night, dreams. Prose and Etchings, 1997.
  • On well-trodden steps. Texts and Etchings, 2002.

literature

  • Lichtwark Society (Ed.): Heinz Schrand. Painting, graphics, sculpture. With contributions by Franziska Neubecker, Gora Jain, Friederike Weimar, Heinz Schrand, Hamburg 2007.
  • Heinz Schrand . In: The child in our world - a competition of the Werner Otto Foundation for the visual artists of Hamburg. Werner Otto Foundation (Ed.), Hamburg 1979, pp. 11, 16, 41.
  • Gerhard Wietek : Altona Museum. Yearbook 1976–1977, Hamburg 1977.
  • Volker Detlef Heydorn : Young object painting in the FRG. Hamburg 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forum for bequests from artists eV
personal data
SURNAME Schrand, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2017
Place of death Hamburg