Joachim Heuer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joachim Heuer (born November 15, 1900 in Plauen (now part of Dresden), † April 9, 1994 in Dresden ) was a German painter , a representative of the forgotten generation .

Works by Joachim Heuer can be found among others. a. in the Stadtmuseum Bautzen , in the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin , in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ( Galerie Neue Meister and Kupferstich-Kabinett ), in the Städtische Galerie Dresden - art collection, Museum Junge Kunst in Frankfurt (Oder) . as well as in the Moritzburg Foundation , Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle / Saale.

Life

Joachim Heuer was born on March 15, 1900 in Dresden-Plauen as the son of the general practitioner Wilhelm Ferdinand Heuer and his wife Elisabeth Susanne. After his father's death, his mother moved with him and his sister to live with their grandparents on Bayreuther Strasse. From 1913, Heuer attended the Wettiner Gymnasium in Dresden. In 1918 he had to leave school to serve as a soldier on the Western Front in France . After returning from the war, Heuer took the emergency maturity test at the grammar school. Then he did another several months of military service in Königsbrück near Dresden. At the age of 17, Heuer took private art lessons from the painter Otto Sebaldt. In autumn 1919, Heuer successfully applied to the Dresden Art Academy . Until 1923 he was a student with Oskar Kokoschka , after which he studied with Otto Hettner . In Hettner's studio he met Annemarie Stauß, his future wife. At that time, Hans Jüchser and Hans Kinder were also studying at Hettner, artists whom Heuer met again later in the Dresden Secession in 1932 . The meeting with Oskar Kokoschka was formative for Joachim Heuer. It was Kokoschka who made the first trip to Italy possible this year in 1921. Both artists were friends until old age.

After graduating in 1925, Joachim Heuer took over one of the coveted studios in the house at Antonsplatz  1 in Dresden. There he met Bernhard Kretzschmar , Paul Berger-Bergner , Fritz Skade , Theodor Rosenhauer and Peter August Böckstiegel . Together with some studio colleagues, Heuer was one of the founding members of the Dresden Secession in 1932. The artist made his exhibition debut with the Dresden Secession in 1932. When, after 1936, due to the cultural and political changes in the Third Reich, Heuer's pictures were no longer shown in public for ten years.

During World War II, Heuer did his military service in the horse hospital in Dresden- Klotzsche . In August 1944 he married Annemarie Stauß , daughter of the lawyer and vice-president of the Saxon State Audit Office. D. Christian Gottlieb Stauß. When his studio on Antonsplatz was destroyed by the bombing raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945, the artist lost most of his early work. During a military transport to Scandinavia, Heuer was taken prisoner by the French .

At the end of July 1946, Joachim Heuer returned to Dresden from captivity. In April 1948, Heuer became a lecturer at the Institute for Artistic Design in Halle Burg Giebichenstein . After two years, at the end of April 1950, he left this teaching post. Joachim Heuer returned to Dresden with his wife. The center of life for the now freelance artist was Dresden- Blasewitz . In the fifties and early sixties, Heuer took on several orders, including for VEB Maschinen- und Apparatebau and the Technical University in Dresden . He also took part in exhibitions again. The proximity of his works to Cubism brought Heuer the charge of "formalism". His painting The Garden Chair was removed from an exhibition by the Association of Visual Artists in the Albertinum in Dresden in 1954 . After that, his works were not shown in exhibitions for a long time, and there were no state purchases.

In the 1970s, works by the artist were again honored in solo exhibitions, most recently in 1990 on the occasion of his 90th birthday, with a large retrospective in the Albertinum . In 1988 he was awarded the Martin Andersen Nexö Art Prize of the City of Dresden , and at the age of 92 he was made an honorary senator at the Dresden University of Fine Arts .

After the death of his wife on New Year's Eve in 1988, Heuer hardly did any artistic work. Joachim Heuer died on April 8, 1994 in Dresden. He was buried in the Loschwitz cemetery .

plant

Joachim Heuer created an extensive artistic oeuvre consisting of approx. 200 paintings and numerous works on paper, such as drawings, watercolors, gouaches and prints.

Although he has been fascinated by the classical standards of Italian painting since his three stays in Italy, the last one in Florence in 1938, Heuer's visual art was based on Pablo Picasso , Georges Braque and Juan Gris . In the course of almost seven decades of creative work, Joachim Heuer found his own very clear visual language. A classical and strictly compositional image structure always dominated his works. The painter limited his palette to a few colors - those broken natural colors typical of Dresden painting in the 20th century. Still lifes and portraits were among his favorite subjects.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Galerie Kühl , Dresden, 1957 (with Ernst Hassebrauk ), 1965 and 1971
  • Joachim Heuer. Painting, graphics , Dresden, Dresden Castle , Precious Hall, July 8–28. August 1977
  • Painting and drawing. Joachim Heuer , Dresden, Galerie Nord, June 10 to July 8, 1979
  • Joachim Heuer. Still life , Dresden, Galerie Comenius, orbis pictus 54, July 20 to September 28, 1985
  • Joachim Heuer. Painting , Dresden, Leonhardi-Museum , Galerie Ost, May 28 to June 26, 1988
  • Joachim Heuer on his 90th birthday, Annemarie Heuer-Stauß in memory , Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Albertinum, March 18 to April 29, 1990
  • Joachim Heuer on his 100th birthday , Dresden, Galerie am Blauen Wunder, April 7th to June 17th, 2000

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • Dresden Secession 1932. 1 exhibition , Dresden, 1932
  • Joint exhibition. 3 groups of artists , Dresden, 1933
  • Saxon watercolor exhibition , Dresden, 1934
  • Saxon Art Exhibition Dresden , Dresden, 1934
  • Art exhibition Dresden , Dresden, 1936
  • Dresden graphic artist , Dresden, 1946
  • Dresden painting since 1925 , Radebeul, 1949
  • Art on the move , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, 1980

Honors

literature

  • This year, Joachim . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 436 .
  • Hans F. Schweers: Paintings in German museums. 2nd edition, Saur, Munich [u. a.] 1994, p. 785
  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: Heuer, Joachim . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 72, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023177-9 , p. 535.
  • Joachim Heuer. Painting, graphics. Catalog of the exhibition in the Pretiosensaal, Dresden Castle, Secretariat for Art Exhibition of the Dresden District, July 8 to August 28, 1977
  • Joachim Heuer. Painting. Exhibition catalog, Leonhardi Museum, Galerie Ost, May 28 to June 26, 1988
  • Joachim Heuer on his 90th birthday, Annemarie Heuer-Stauß in memory. Dresden 1990, catalog of the exhibition in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Albertinum, March 18 to April 29, 1990
  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics. Hildesheim (among others) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008
  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Ed.): Art on the move. Dresden 1918–1933. Catalog of the exhibition, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 1980/1981, Dresden 1980, p. 272
  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Hrsg.): Illustrated inventory of the state art collections. New Masters Gallery. Volume 2, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - An artist group in the field of tension between art and politics. Hildesheim (et al.) 2010, p. 360
  2. ↑ Illustrated inventory of the State Art Collections. New Masters Gallery. Volume 2, 2010
  3. ↑ Karin Müller-Kelwing: Heuer, Joachim . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 72, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023177-9 , p. 535.
  4. ↑ a b c d Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - An artist group in the field of tension between art and politics. Hildesheim (among others) 2010
  5. ↑ a b Joachim Heuer on his 90th birthday, Annemarie Heuer-Stauß in memory. Dresden 1990, catalog of the exhibition in the State Art Collections, Albertinum, March 18 to April 29, 1990
  6. ↑ Joachim Heuer. Painting, graphics. Catalog of the exhibition in the Pretiosensaal, Dresden Castle, Secretariat for Art Exhibition of the Dresden District, July 8 to August 28, 1977
  7. ↑ Joachim Heuer. Painting. Exhibition catalog, Leonhardi Museum, Galerie Ost, May 28 to June 26, 1988
personal data
SURNAME This year, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, a representative of the Forgotten Artists
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen near Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1994
Place of death Dresden