Jupp Heinz

Josef Peter "Jupp" Heinz (born January 14, 1917 in Binsfeld (Eifel) ; † February 7, 1999 in Bonn ) was a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. Heinz was a founding member of the Bonn group “group concrete” in 1981 and the “Künstlergruppe Bonn” in 1949, which he chaired from 1986 to 1992. Like Leo Breuer , with whom he worked intensively for decades, Jupp Heinz is regarded as a representative of lyrical constructivism .

Life

Jupp Heinz, who studied at the Trier School of Applied Arts from 1936 and later briefly at the Cologne Werkschule, was never supposed to get a professional or academic degree because of the war events, but from the end of 1945 he worked practically continuously as an artist. In addition to various commissioned works, which included landscape paintings, portraits and sacred sculptures, he was - with residence in Bonn since 1949 - from 1955 until his retirement in 1981, despite repeated threats of job cuts, as a permanent creative graphic designer at the Düsseldorf advertising agency Dr. Hegemann worked and at the same time taught modeling courses as a community college teacher. Jupp Heinz was in constant communication with artist colleagues who were friends, such as Ernemann Sander , Willy Maria Stucke and Paul Magar .

Since 1967 he has been concentrating on a multidimensionality in his works, the inspiration of which he had drawn not least from popular religious lamellar images of the Eifel with - depending on the point of view - different representations. His multi-colored “block pictures” and installations, as well as a wide variety of works in clay, wire and Plexiglas, were presented in a large number of exhibitions with the focus on Bonn and Paris.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1946/7 exhibitions in the East Frisian region (Aurich, Bremen, Emden and Norden; in Bonn: 1st major post-war Christmas exhibition of the city of Bonn in 1947 )
• 1952 Bonn and Düsseldorf, Kaufhof
• 1960/2 Bonn, electoral gardener's house
• 1963 Lille, Recontre
• 1971 Paris, Salon des Réalités Nouvelles
• 1972 Hamburg and Hanover, Galerie Off
• 1975 Bonn, Municipal Art Museum "Artists Group Bonn 25 Years"
• 1980 Paris, "Salon Comparaisons"
• 1983 Bonn-Bad Godesberg, house on the Redoute
• 1993 Nienburg, group concrete - young art from North Rhine-Westphalia
• 1997 Bonn, group specifically "Artist Forum"
• 1998 Bonn, 1st Biennale for Concrete Art

Awards

• August Macke Medal of the City of Bonn 1992

literature

• Concept: concrete. 1st Biennale for Concrete Art. Bonn 1998. (catalog).
• Jacques Breuer, Andreas Pohlmann, (Eds.): Encounters with Leo Breuer - Homage to the 100th birthday 1993. Siering, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-923154-15-1 .
• Pia and Hans-Dieter Heckes (eds.): Young art from North Rhine-Westphalia. Group concrete. Kulturamt der Stadt Nienburg, PPP-Verlag (on commission), Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-922-878-83-0 . (Exhibition catalog).
• Margarethe Jochimsen: Bonn picture sheet. Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn 1984.
• Irene Kulnig, Peter Tutzauer (Hrsg.): Artist directory of the region. Bonn Künstlerforum, Siering, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-923154-22-4 .
• Petra Rapp-Neumann: A Lyric Constructivist - Portraits of Bonn Artists. In: General-Anzeiger . Bonn, Feuilleton, December 30, 1987.
• Municipal Art Museum Bonn (Ed.): Jupp Heinz. Serial works 1963–1982. Bonner Universität-Buchdruckerei, Bonn 1983.

Web links

• Homepage of Jupp Heinz
• Exhibition archive - artist group Bonn. In: kuenstlergruppe-bonn.de. www.kuenstlergruppe-bonn.de 
• Christina zu Meckleburg: Order of the block pictures . In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. General-Anzeiger Bonn, January 31, 2007 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christoph Wilhelmi: Artist groups in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900. A manual. Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7762-0400-1 , p. 210 [No. 117].
2. ↑ Discarding ballast - DER SPIEGEL 35/1974. Retrieved June 21, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Program 2nd trimester 1972 . 1972 ( die-bonn.de ).
4. ↑ Referred to by: Treffpunkt Kunst Emil Zuppke (1895 to 1980) .
5. ↑ Christina zu Meckleburg: Order of the block pictures - homage to Bonn painter Jupp Heinz in the gardener's house General-Anzeiger on January 31, 2007, accessed on August 29, 2020.