Karl-Heinz Herrfurth

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Karl Heinz Herrfurth, watercolor on paper, the world disc in hand, dated March 20, 1982, size 70 x 50 cm
Karl Heinz Herrfurth, watercolor The world disc in hand , 1982, 70 x 50 cm

Karl-Heinz Willy Martin Herrfurth (born September 27, 1934 in Berlin ; † November 12, 2015 there ) was a German painter , draftsman and professor and Vice-President of the Berlin University of the Arts .

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Karl-Heinz Herrfurth studied art education at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin from 1954 to 1960 . In 1960 he finished his studies as a master student with Gerhard Fietz in the subjects art education and works , painting and graphics . From 1963 he was a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin and from 1974 professor at the University of Fine Arts Berlin (later the University of the Arts (HdK)), where he worked until 2002. In the preparatory phase for founding the Hochschule der Künste, Herrfurth was a member of the structural committee, after the founding was twice a member of the Academic Senate and between 1992 and 1994 Vice President of the HdK Berlin.

During his time as a professor, Herrfurth was a member of the Karl Hofer Society and the German Association of Artists . Exhibitions document Herrfurth's continuous activity as an artist during his time as a professor. Herrfurth lived and worked in Berlin and in the Mani (Peloponnese) .

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Karl-Heinz Herrfurth, mixed media on historical paper ground, 1992, 21.4 x 29 cm

While Herrfurth devoted himself mainly to painting in his early works, he later turned more to drawing. From around the mid-1960s, his painting was influenced by Pop Art and Critical Realism . During this time he painted large-format, photo-realistic oil paintings, which deal with the merging of man and machine. In addition, he mainly made drawings, photo collages and watercolors . The subjects of these works were figurations, people, body parts, tools, plants, architecture, landscapes and symbols. Study stays in Greece led him to increasingly turn to drawing.

From the mid-1980s he changed his style of painting, often smaller formats followed, whereby he based on works by Francis Bacon his own, e. T. took surrealist paths. He then immersed himself in works on paper, especially from 1985 onwards he created mixed media drawings on old paper that he had discovered for himself in Greece. In this phase, in addition to realistic images, more abstract, freer representations played a greater role.

His works often have a symbolic-philosophical character, past and present, reality and fantasy are linked to form an unexpected new whole.

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Herrfurth: Another game (lecture from February 3, 1994), in: Dieter Hacker, Stefanie Hackmann (eds.): Thinking in pictures. Berlin University of the Arts, Faculty 6, Berlin 1994, pp. 48–54, ISBN 3-89462-032-3
  • Stefanie Hackmann, Karlheinz Nowald: Memory of the imagination. Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89462-050-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutscher Künstlerbund: Exhibition . 1972 ( google.de [accessed February 11, 2020]).
  2. ^ Presidents, vice-presidents of the HdK and the UdK Berlin. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  3. ^ Obituary notice of Karl-Heinz Herrfurth | Tagesspiegel mourning. Retrieved on February 11, 2020 (German).
  4. ^ Deutscher Künstlerbund eV - Ordinary members. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Stefanie Hackmann / Karlheinz Nowald: Memory of the imagination . Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89462-050-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Herrfurth, Karl-Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herrfurth, Karl-Heinz Willy Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2015
Place of death Berlin