Heinz Seeber

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Heinz Seeber (* 1930 in Munich ; † summer 1998 ) was a German graphic artist and painter (primarily religious art) and a course instructor for the training of young artists.

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Seeber began his career as a bricklayer and plasterer . From 1953 he studied at the Munich Graphic Academy under Professor Ege, later became an art and commercial graphic designer and simultaneously exercised his painting activity, first in Munich and later in Duino near Trieste. Seeber was particularly fascinated by topics from the Bible and was able to create 22 large-format linocuts about scenes in the Old Testament for the first time in 1961 . In 1961 his first major exhibition took place in the Wolfgang Gurlitt gallery in Munich. Since 1963 he has been teaching at the Munich Adult Education Center . He led courses until 1989.

In 1964 he joined the German Society for Christian Art and in 1966 worked on the restoration of the Würzburg Cathedral . Various exhibitions with graphics and painting on Christian, profane and mythological topics followed. Since around 1985 he has loved to work at Duino on the Adriatic Sea in Trieste , whose karst and cliffs also appealed to Seeber. Over time, Seeber became known beyond Germany (exhibitions in Munich, Nuremberg, Bottrop, Oberhausen, Gelsenkirchen, Essen, Duisburg) also in northern Italy . In 1998, after his sudden death in the garden near Duino, art circles in Trieste organize a commemorative exhibition in San Giusto Castle in September 1998 . Further retrospectives took place in San Floriano (Görz, 2002) on the occasion of the “Arte & Vino” festival (art and wine) and in Guntersblum am Rhein (museum, 2010). In 2012, 27 oil paintings by him were exhibited in the Henrys auction house (Mutterstadt near Ludwigshafen) as part of a sales show, and sales were inevitable.

His 20 years of work in Christian art, his popular painting courses, his inspiration and many contacts ensure Seeber a permanent place in European art. His sacred work met with great demand from both Protestant and Catholic clients, above all the Bavarian monastery of St. Ottilien. His works are also represented in private galleries. Seeber is considered a painterly natural talent who found expression in various graphic and painterly techniques. His figures appear three-dimensional and, especially in the first epoch of his work, have an expressionistic wealth of movement reminiscent of Beckmann and Schmidt-Rottluff. From this, Seeber developed a “narrative” style with dramatic tones, supplemented by lyrical moments. His later works were based on European greats such as Goya, Caravaggio, Matisse and the later Picasso, but still retain their unmistakable originality, which is also reflected in the accuracy and security of the drawing. Seeber often thought in cycles inspired by great literary works (Shakespeare's Tempest, Claudel's Seidener Schuh, Ariadne auf Naxos, Daphne) or the Bible (King David, the Christmas story, the Passion, the Apocalypse) or mythology, which he also called series of Graphics and illustrated as single paintings. The Apocalypse appeared in Anton Ziegenaus' Meditations on the Apocalypse (1979, Auer-Verlag, Donauwörth). Heinz Seeber worked closely with the Chlodwig Selmer gallery.

Seeber's estate is with his stepson Julius Franzot and with the gallery Chlodwig Selmer.

literature

  • Achim Schiff: Artistic work of a skeptical Christian. Allgemeine Zeitung, March 23, 2010.

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SURNAME Seeber, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 1998