Johannes Heisig

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Johannes Heisig - photo by Axel Küstner (detail) 2007
Johannes Heisig 2015 at the Marburger Kunstverein

Johannes Heisig (born April 23, 1953 in Leipzig ) is a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist in the socially critical tradition of realism.

Life

Heisig comes from a family of artists . His grandfather Walter Heisig , his father Bernhard Heisig and his brother Walter Eisler were also painters and graphic artists. He attended the Extended Thomas High School (EOS) (today: Thomasschule zu Leipzig ) until his Abitur in 1971 . From 1973 to 1977 he studied painting and graphics at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) and graduated with a diploma. At the same time he worked in his father's workshop. From 1978 to 1980 he was a master student with Gerhard Kettner at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (HfBK). From 1979 to 1980 he was a scholarship holder at the F + F School for Art and Experimental Design in Zurich.

From 1980 to 1991 Heisig taught at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, since 1988 as professor and holder of the chair for painting and graphics. From 1989 to 1991 he was the rector of this university. In 1990 he was one of the founding members of the New Saxon Art Association and in 1992 of the support association for the European Workshop for Art and Culture Hellerau eV In 2000, the film portrait "End of the great teaching" (arte / ZDF) was created as a psychological portrait of the father-son relationship between Bernhard and Johannes Heisig. Heisig moved to Berlin . From 2003 to 2004 he was a professor at the TU Dortmund . In 2004 Heisig was a “city guest” in the city of Eisenach . The results of this stay were presented in June 2005 in the exhibition "I go and search with desire ...". Heisig's work can be found in well-known museums.

In 2008 he created the important work cycle “Once upon a time. Images of remembering, memories and the inside ”, in which he artistically dealt with the division of Germany from a public and private perspective. "For a long time he had kept an artistic distance from the wall topic until he, inspired by the gallery owner of the Berlin gallery son, contacted the memorial in 2007." The series was produced in a cooperation between the Berlin press conference , galerie son and the Berlin Wall Memorial shown for the first time in an exhibition opened on August 13, 2008 in the Berlin House of Representatives .

Works (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1988 Gallery of the City of Esslingen am Neckar; Gallery of the University of Dortmund
  • 1994 Kunstverein Wilhelmshaven, art gallery
  • 1995 Kunst- und Kunstgewerbeverein Pforzheim, Reuchlinhaus
  • 1996 Caput mortuum , Aschaffenburg Art Association, Jesuit Church
  • 1997 Museum Kunstscheune Bergsdorf; COMPTOIR art magazine, municipal art gallery, Sonneberg
  • 1999 Rothamel Gallery, Erfurt, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Bonn
  • 2000 Oldenburg culture store
  • 2001 Art Association Bautzen
  • 2003 Land in Sight , Thuringian Museum in the stables of Eisenach City Palace
  • 2005 I go and search with desire , presentation of the work as a "city guest" Eisenach, Thuringian Museum Eisenach
  • 2006 Retrospective of works: City Gallery ADA, Meiningen and Kunststation Kleinsassen
  • 2007 visibility , Kunst-Kontor Sehmsdorf, Potsdam; Kunstverein Südsauerland, Olpe
  • 2008 Once upon a time , Berlin House of Representatives
  • 2009 3 berliner , German Embassy London
  • 2011 TRANSITIONS , exhibition triptych in Willy-Brandt-Haus , Galerie son and SEZ, Berlin
  • 2012 Johannes Heisig - apparently , solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Coburg , Coburg
  • 2015 Face to face , solo exhibition with paintings and drawings by Heisig at the Marburger Kunstverein

Movies

  • 2000 film portrait “The End of the Great Teaching” arte / ZDF
  • 2002 film “Village image with apostles” arte / NDR
  • 2008 DVD "Once upon a time" A film by Ingo Steinbach , music by Ulrich Gumpert , text by Jochen Berg

Honors (selection)

  • Art Prize of the State of Brandenburg (category painting; for the portrait of Volker Braun)

literature

  • The Gelliehäuser Altarpiece by Johannes Heisig . Ed .: Hasso von Poser. Braun, Karlsruhe 2003, ISBN 3-7650-8295-3 .
  • I go and look with longing ... Ed .: City administration Eisenach. City administration, Eisenach 2005, ISBN 3-00-016517-7 .
  • Georg Trakl : Poems . In: The graphic books . tape 34 . Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86730-079-7 (With ten drawings and four original lithographs by Johannes Heisig).
  • Blaise Pascal, Arnd Brummer (Eds.): Thoughts . Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86730-023-0 (French: Pensées . Translated by Ulrich Kunzmann).
  • Johannes Heisig . Ed .: Ulrike Damm. Nicolai, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87584-981-7 (exhibition catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition “Johannes Heisig - New Works” in the Tammen & Busch Gallery, Berlin, 1996; IG-Metall-Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, 1996).
  • Mihyun Son (Ed.): Johannes Heisig "once upon a time" . galerie son, Berlin 2008 (catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition “Johannes Heisig - once upon a time” in the Berlin House of Representatives and for the presentation of the series of works of the same name, 2008; galerie son, Berlin, 2008).
  • Short biography for:  Heisig, Johannes . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Hermann Glaser (author), Johannes Heisig (illustrator): Talking to a trout is worth something. Projects Verlag Cornelius, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-86237-744-2 .
  • Michael Hametner (author), Johannes Heisig (painting): Painting over - 15 conversations - a portrait of the painter Johannes Heisig. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2017, ISBN 978-3-95462-811-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the Federal Government: Pictures of Remembering ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesregierung.de
  2. ^ Brandenburg Art Prize / Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Heisig, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig