Heinz Velten

Heinz Velten (born February 12, 1935 in Wuppertal ; † June 12, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German painter, graphic artist and university professor.

Live and act

Memorial plaque for Johann Gregor Breuer

Memorial plaque for Bernhard August Thiel

Painted gable on Simonsstrasse 26

Velten, son of a master painter, attended school from 1941 to 1952 until he reached secondary school. He then did an apprenticeship as a painter and house painter and passed the journeyman's examination in 1954. At the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal , Velten studied six semesters from 1954 to 1957 with a final exam under Ernst Oberhoff . In the first year of his studies he won a competition prize of DM 4000 from the Marburg wallpaper factory. He then worked independently in Wuppertal until 1960 and accepted public and church commissions. He also took part in competitions with designs. From 1960 to 1965 he was employed in Kirchhain near Marburg at the Marburg wallpaper factory as a designer and graphic artist. From 1965 he taught as an art teacher and handicraft teacher again in Wuppertal at the Realschule Platzgrafenstraße in Elberfeld and later in the school center south , since then he has taken up freelance work in applied artistic and graphic fields and also accepted church, public and private commissions. From 1969 to 1974 he was an employee, later deputy director of the youth art school in Wuppertal (later renamed the Kreativschule Wuppertal), of which he was also a co-founder. He was also involved in founding the communication center Die Börse , which he managed in the team until 1973. From 1972 to 1975 he taught painting at the University of Wuppertal .

Velten had been a member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK) since 1957 and lived in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, he died in June 2015 in Berlin-Lichtenberg . Till Velten is his son.

Works (selection)

1959: Metal sculptures with glass mosaic on three facades of the newly built commercial school in Solingen
1960: Wall painting, linear sgraffito with applied colors in the Great Hall of the House of Youth in Wuppertal-Barmen (was refreshed in 1986/87)
1960: Church tower cock driven in copper on the Catholic. Langerfeld Church
1960/63: Elisabeth von Thuringia and St. Michael, natural stone mosaics in the Caritashaus in Kolpingstrasse, Wuppertal-Elberfeld
1965: Christ crucified, glass mosaic in the entrance area of the Caritashaus in Elberfeld
1965: Memorial stone for Bernhard Letterhaus , boulder with bronze plaque in the Letterhaus settlement
1966: bronze reliefs, lead glazing (Way of the Cross), tabernacle, ambo, stalls, candlesticks for the chapel of the catholic church. Retirement home Laurentiusheim, Stockmannsmühle, Wuppertal-Elberfeld
1967/68: lead glazing for the new building of the cath. Church of St. Joseph in Wuppertal-Ronsdorf
1980: St. Augustinus, concrete relief in the entrance area of the Augustinus monastery in Elberfeld
1984: Memorial plaque for Bernhard August Thiel (bronze relief) on the west side of the St. Laurentius Church in Wuppertal-Elberfeld
1985: Memorial plaque for Johann Gregor Breuer (bronze relief) on the former Kolping House, now an old people's home, on Laurentiusstraße in Wuppertal-Elberfeld
2000: Wall painting as part of Mural Global at Simonsstrasse 26 in Wuppertal, together with other artists

Participation in exhibitions

1968: at the 22nd Bergische Kunstausstellung in Solingen
2003: Exhibition "Flags Against Racism" in the Old Synagogue Meeting Center in Wuppertal
2003: Exhibition 2 = 1 in Wipperfürth

Web links

Commons : Heinz Velten - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Velten at bbk-bergischland.de

Individual evidence

^ Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal (biographies of the participating artists) Born, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-058-6
^ Udo Garweg, Klaus Giesen, Gudrun Haberberger: Wuppertaler Künstlerverzeichnis . Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 978-3-89202-042-4 .
↑ In the Wuppertal artist directory, edition from 2000, an incorrect date of birth is given. In the current electronic database version of the artist directory, the date of birth has been corrected or verified with the registry offices in Wuppertal and Berlin.
↑ Mourning for Heinz Velten In Wuppertaler Rundschau from June 17, 2015 (there incorrectly written Thursday , June 11, 2015 as the day of his death)

personal data
SURNAME	Velten, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, graphic artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH	June 12, 2015
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal (biographies of the participating artists) Born, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-058-6

[2] Udo Garweg, Klaus Giesen, Gudrun Haberberger: Wuppertaler Künstlerverzeichnis . Ed .: Sabine Fehlemann . From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal 2000, ISBN 978-3-89202-042-4 .

[3] In the Wuppertal artist directory, edition from 2000, an incorrect date of birth is given. In the current electronic database version of the artist directory, the date of birth has been corrected or verified with the registry offices in Wuppertal and Berlin.

[4] Mourning for Heinz Velten In Wuppertaler Rundschau from June 17, 2015 (there incorrectly written Thursday , June 11, 2015 as the day of his death)