Helmut Heinze (sculptor)

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Helmut Heinze (2nd from right) explains at the IX. Art exhibition of the GDR 1982 his sculpture Knabenakt (l.)

Helmut Heinze (born April 24, 1932 in Mulda ) is a German sculptor . From 1979 to 1997 he taught as a professor of sculpture at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts .

Life

Penguins, Hoyerswerda 1958
Ballplayer (with Wilhelm Landgraf ), Dresden 1971
Portrait stele Albert Fraenkel, Heidelberg 2004

Heinze was born in Mulda in 1932 as the son of a railroad worker, but grew up in Dresden , where he attended elementary and high school. He took drawing courses from Etha Richter while at school . After finishing school, he began studying at the Dresden University of Fine Arts in 1950 , where he learned from Erich Fraaß and Walter Arnold . It was at this time that Heinze created his own graphics and sculptures. He came into contact with Gerhard Richter , who was also studying in Dresden at the time; Richter's letters to Heinze from around 1960 were acquired in 2008 by the Gerhard Richter Archive of the Dresden State Art Collections . He also got to know Rudolf Nehmer , who introduced him to Dresden artists of the time. Heinze created a portrait sculpture by Nehmers in 1957; Nehmer integrated Heinze's sculptures, playing flute and singing, into his painting Nature and Art, created in 1973 .

Heinze interrupted his studies in 1953 and trained as a stone sculptor with Werner Hempel . Until 1955 he was involved in the restoration of the Dresden Kreuzkirche and the Meissen Cathedral . It was not until 1955 that he continued his studies. In 1956 Heinze married the costume designer Erika Simmank ; the marriage has two sons (* 1959, 1962). Heinze completed his studies in 1957 and began to work as a freelance artist. His first studio was in the Villa Gustav Ziller on Augustusweg in Radebeul . On behalf of the city of Hoyerswerda , Heinze created the animal sculpture Sitting Dog in 1957 ; further orders for works in public space followed.

In 1961, Heinze received a teaching position for life drawing at the architecture department of the Dresden University of Technology . During this time he was a research assistant at Walter Howard (professorship for building sculpture). In 1969 he became a lecturer in the architecture department of the TU Dresden and taught the basics of design. In 1971, Wilhelm Landgraf created the ballplayer group in front of the Wundtstrasse student dormitories at TU Dresden. From 1972 Heinze worked as a lecturer for plastics at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, headed the plastics department from 1976 and was appointed professor for plastics in 1979. Thomas Jastram was one of his students at the HfBK . Heinze received a solo exhibition of his works at the university in 1981 and was awarded the GDR Art Prize. In 1984 Heinze received the Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize from the city of Dresden.

Heinze traveled to Italy for the first time in 1988 ; a second trip to Italy followed in 1992. In 1991 he was appointed a member of the Saxon University Commission, to which he was a member until 1993. In this function he was involved in the reorganization of the Saxon university operations after the fall of the Wall . From 1995 he was a member of the art commission of the city of Dresden. Heinze retired in 1997 as professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts; the following year he moved from Dresden to Kreischa . Until 2012, Heinze worked on a memorial for the civilian victims of air raids on behalf of the Frauenkirche Foundation . The 2.77 meter high, seven-door work Choir of Survivors was installed in May 2012 in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral in Coventry and is considered a symbol of reconciliation. Heinze had been working on drafts for a memorial for the victims of the air raids on Dresden since the 1960s. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden are honoring Heinze with a personal exhibition entitled Figure and Portrait in the Albertinum .

Works by Heinzes are owned by the Sculpture Collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the National Gallery of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , the Stadtmuseum Dresden , the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg / Halle , the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig and the Sculpture Collection of the Chemnitz Art Collections - Museum am Theaterplatz .

Act

Heinze's central theme is the "figure, from the statue torso to the larger-than-life statue". Heinze often created statues, including figures of young men.

Characteristic is a “reduction of the pictorial substance, a lack of form language” that has developed over the years. While Heinze was initially influenced by Gerhard Marcks , whose studio he visited in Cologne in 1956, in later years he turned to artists like Wilhelm Lehmbruck : “Lehmbruck's thin figures, elongated like Gothic sculptures, revealing so much inwardness , attracted Heinze ”. His works were thus increasingly "more attached to an art of ideas [...] than to visual art."

A transformation of the psyche into the physicality of the representation is typical of Heinze's sculptures: the human being is "psychized matter" and the spirit of the human being cannot be represented, but can only be made visible by the sculptor "through a wearer". Going back to Hans Steger , whom he met in 1955 and who also understood sculpture as applied psychology, Heinze created sculptures with “particle-like ripples and sparse surfaces”, but the depiction itself remained realistic.

Works (selection)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1976: Gallery in the film theater Prager Straße . Dresden
  • 1981: Helmut Heinze. Plastic. University of Fine Arts, Dresden
  • 1987: Wort und Werk art exhibitions in Leipzig
  • 1988: Small Gallery Arneburg
  • 1993: sculptures, drawings and found objects; Art exhibition Kühl , Dresden
  • 2002: sculptures and drawings by Heinzes on the occasion of his 70th birthday; Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring, Pulsnitz
  • 2010: portraits, sculptures, found objects and drawings; Gallery am Plan, Pirna
  • 2012: retrospective; Art exhibition Kühl, Dresden
  • 2012: Choir of Survivors - drafts for the victims of the bombing raids on Coventry and Dresden; Gallery in Ernst Rietschel's birthplace, Pulsnitz
  • 2012: figure and portrait. Special exhibition; State Art Collections Dresden, Albertinum

literature

  • Helmut Heinze. Sculptures, drawings, finds . Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring, Pulsnitz 1997.

Web links

Commons : Helmut Heinze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elmar Jansen: No hermit: The sculptor Helmut Heinze is 70 today. In: Dresdner Latest News. April 25, 2002, p. 11.
  2. ↑ a b biography. In: Helmut Heinze. Sculptures, drawings, finds. Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring, Pulsnitz 1997.
  3. ^ Gerhard Richter's Dusseldorf Letters. In: Rheinische Post. February 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ Helmut Heinze: Memories of my early encounters with Rudolf Nehmer. In: Gundula Voigt, Paul Voigt (Ed.): Rudolf Nehmer on the 100th birthday . Voigt & Voigt, Dresden 2012, pp. 5–9.
  5. ↑ biography. In: University of Fine Arts Saxony: Helmut Heinze. Plastic. Exhibition. Polydruck, Dresden 1981, p. 1.
  6. ↑ Birgit Grimm: Born from the embers. In: Sächsische Zeitung , April 27, 2012, p. 16.
  7. ↑ Bronze sculpture for Coventry. In: Saxon newspaper. May 14, 2012, p. 15.
  8. ↑ Frank Sühnel: The Dresden Inferno always stayed in the head. In: Saxon newspaper. April 30, 2012, p. 15.
  9. ↑ Lisa Werner-Art: Showing the fragility. Reminiscence of Helmut Heinze on his 80th birthday in the Albertinum. In: Dresdner Latest News. June 13, 2012, p. 10.
  10. ↑ Public property work. In: Helmut Heinze. Sculptures, drawings, finds. Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring, Pulsnitz 1997.
  11. ↑ a b Heiner Protzmann: Helmut Heinze, sculptor. In: Helmut Heinze. Sculptures, drawings, finds. Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring, Pulsnitz 1997.
  12. ↑ a b Elsa Niemann: Struggle for a new type of person. In: Dresdner Latest News. April 25, 1997, p. 8.
  13. ^ Gert Claußnitzer: Representative of a spiritualized formal language. In: Saxon newspaper. April 25, 1997, p. 18.
  14. ^ Dietrich Schubert: Sculpture between empathy and abstraction. About Helmut Heinze. In: Wulf Kirsten, Hans-Peter Lühr (ed.): Artists in Dresden in the 20th century. Literary portraits . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2005, p. 143.
  15. ↑ Heinz Weißflog: Depth and Simplicity. Ulrich Eisenfeld and Helmut Heinze in the art exhibition Kühl. In: Dresdner Latest News. October 23, 2004, p. 19.
personal data
SURNAME Heinze, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulda