Karl Heidelbach

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Karl Heidelbach (born March 26, 1923 in Hanau , † 1993 in Cologne ) was a German painter .

Life

Karl Heidelbach took part in World War II and was wounded. In 1944 he attended the Städelhochschule in Frankfurt am Main . From 1946 to 1948 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Professor Karl Caspar . In 1956 he received his exams as an art teacher . In 1973 he gave up teaching.

Heidelbach was shaped by his acquaintance with Otto Dix and influenced by the " New Objectivity ". Stylistically, it can be assigned to realism . From 1950 to 1967 Karl Heidelbach lived and worked in the Phillipsburg in Braubach . From 1968 until his death the painter lived and worked in Cologne.

Karl Heidelbach is the father of five children, including the picture book illustrator and author Nikolaus Heidelbach and the director Kaspar Heidelbach .

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From 1944 Heidelbach studied at the Städelhochschule in Frankfurt am Main with Wilhelm Heise . In 1944 he made the acquaintance of Otto Dix and Karl Scheffler . Heidelbach described himself as a student of Dix. In 1946 he began studying at the Munich Academy with Carl Kaspers and in 1954 and 1956 attended the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg (“School of Seeing”) with Oskar Kokoschka . part.

The first material images emerge from objects found on the banks of the Rhine around 1958 and lead to a first solo exhibition. As an art teacher, Heidelbach instructs his students in Sankt Goarshausen to build figures from found property. The girls make dolls while the boys create robots. Heidelbach places the built robots and puppets in mostly everyday scenes and paints them veristically. The “robot pictures” from 1959 were followed shortly thereafter by the first “doll pictures”. From around 1964 on, Heidelbach also painted “UFO pictures” - futuristic-looking architectural landscapes that were also composed of everyday objects.

From approx. 1967 onwards, more and more pictures of people, e.g. T. also from the dead. Heidelbach emphasizes that his pictures are not based on a content / political message, but rather the enjoyment of painting is in the foreground; regardless of the subject . From around 1970, more and more landscapes, cityscapes and group portraits appear in Heidelberg's work. The landscape pictures combine the objects shown with objects in the painter's studio in the tradition of the trompe-l'oeil .

From around 1982 the basic idea of ​​"robots" made from found objects returned. However, these "androids" do not have any real physical role models. They are created with freely invented dimensions and constructions on the canvas. The last cataloged pictures of Heidelbach show portraits of people.

The "suffering of creature existence", in veristically painted everyday scenes, remains a defining theme in Heidelbach's work throughout his life. Although his creative phase fell into the informal art era , he remained true to the realistic style of painting until his death in 1993.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019, Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Hanna Bekker vom Rath
  • 2017, Hanau, Remisengalerie Schloss Philippsruhe, Hanauer Kulturverein: Karl Heidelbach - a retrospective . Oil paintings 1960–1992
  • 2013, Troisdorf (participation): Exhibition Fathers + Sons Vol. 1: Karl Heidelbach & Nikolaus Heidelbach Picture Book Museum
  • 2012, Aschaffenburg (participation): Fantastic Worlds - From Surrealism to Neo-Symbolism , Aschaffenburg City Museum
  • 1987, Cologne: Galerie Horbach
  • 1987, Mülheim an der Ruhr: Karl Heidelbach - Pictures 1959–1986 , Städtisches Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • 1986, Witten: three things; Robots, dolls, androids , Märkisches Museum (Witten)
  • 1986, Darmstadt: Pictures 1959–1965 , Hessisches Landesmuseum
  • 1978, Witten: Retrospective Karl Heidelbach , Märkisches Museum (Witten)
  • 1975, Cologne: Oil paintings, gouaches , Galerie Bargera
  • 1975, Tel Aviv: Givon Art Gallery
  • 1973, Gelsenkirchen, Municipal Museum
  • 1969, Cologne: Galerie Gmurzynska
  • 1968, Bonn: Oil paintings 1963–1968 , Museum Städtische Kunstsammlungen
  • 1968, Copenhagen: Galerie Passepartout
  • 1967, Hanover: Oil paintings from 1963–1967 , Galerie Brusberg
  • 1962, Gelsenkirchen: Kohl piano house

A permanent exhibition of paintings and drawings by Karl Heidelbach is located in the Farmer's Museum in Braubach.

literature

  • Karl Heidelbach - Ed .: Dr. Wolfgang Zemter, ISBN 3-925608-23-0 , published: 1994, Verlag Kettler
  • Karl Heidelbach - Drawings 1955–1987 , Introduction: Albrecht Fafner, Cologne, DuMont Buchverlag, 1988
  • Karl Heidelbach - three things; Robots, Puppen, Androiden - Ed .: Märkisches Museum der Stadt Witten, Text: R. Lange, W. Zemter, published 1986
  • Johann-Karl Schmidt , "From the emotional world of machines", in catalog: Karl Heidelbach, pictures 1959–1965, exhibition Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, 1986, edited by Johann-Karl Schmidt
  • Fantastic worlds: from surrealism to neo-symbolism ; three generations of painters of the 20th century, publisher: Herzogenrath - Murken-Altrogge, published 2009, ISBN 978-3-935791-34-2
  • Art now / The phantastic image of men , text: Takahiko Okada, Ed .: Kodansha Ltd, Tokyo, 1971

Interviews and films

  • Fathers and sons - The painter Karl Heidelbach and his artist son Nikolaus , Cordula Echterhoff for WestArt on March 26, 2013, WDR
  • Against the current part 1: Three painters of today, Siegfried Rischar - Karl Heidelbach - Mathias Prechtl , December 29, 1968, ZDF, Heinz Dieckmann
  • In this country - nowadays , includes an interview with Karl Heidelbach, WDR, 1972, Bernhard F. Rohe

Publicly owned works

Status: 1986, taken from: Karl Heidelbach - Dreierlei; Robots, dolls, androids

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Karl Heidelbach - biography. In: karlheidelbach.de. Nikolaus Heidelbach (estate administration), accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ DuMont's artist lexicon: from 1945 to the present / Karin Thomas; Gerd de Vries, 1979, ISBN 3-7701-0996-1
  3. ^ Farmer's Museum in Braubach. In: loreleyinfo.de. Retrieved July 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ In Germany - Nowadays, includes an interview with Karl Heidelbach, WDR, 1972, Bernhard F. Rohe
  5. ↑ DNB 790547929
  6. ↑ DNB 964808927
  7. ↑ DNB 870289403
  8. ↑ DNB 790547929
  9. ↑ DNB 964808927
  10. ↑ DNB 964808927
  11. ↑ DNB 870289403
  12. ↑ DuMont's artist lexicon: from 1945 to the present / Karin Thomas; Gerd de Vries, 1979, ISBN 3-7701-0996-1
  13. ↑ GND 1041698321
  14. ^ Judith von Sternburg: Surrealism Exhibition Aschaffenburg - Dream Logic in Color. In: berliner-zeitung.de. January 7, 2013, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  15. ↑ DNB 891175644
  16. ↑ DNB 870289403
  17. ↑ DNB 860507432
  18. ↑ DNB 910586926
  19. ↑ DNB 790547929
  20. ↑ DNB 573709068
  21. ↑ DNB 457138505
  22. ↑ DNB 790547929
  23. ^ Loreley Info / City of Braubach ; accessed on 23 August 2010
  24. ↑ DNB 964808927
  25. ↑ DNB 870289403
  26. ↑ DNB 999980939
  27. ↑ https://www.wdr.de/themen/global/flashplayer/fscreen.jsp?dslSrc=rtmp://gffstream.fcod.llnwd.net/a792/e2//mediendb/westart_do/video/2013/0326/ 130326_westart_heidelbach_web-l.mp4 & offset = 0 & autoPlay = true & autoCount = true & cfgFile = https: //www.wdr.de/mediathek/regional/codebase/skin/mediathek.cfg&red=mediathek , accessed on May 20, 2015
  28. ↑ DNB 870289403
personal data
SURNAME Heidelbach, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH 1993
Place of death Cologne