Marie-Luise Heller

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Marie-Luise Heller , also: Marie-Luise Weil or Marie-Luise Weil-Heller (born June 23, 1918 in Worms , † December 5, 2009 in Augsburg ) was a German visual artist in the field of geometric abstraction, the Informel , of Tachism , Op-Art , Ornamental Art and Minimalism .

life and work

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Marie-Luise Heller grew up in Worms as the daughter of the entrepreneur Carl Heller and the pianist Martha Heller. In 1934 she left the secondary girls 'school in Worms and switched to a girls' school with boarding school in Vevey / La Tour-de-Peilz in Switzerland . Her enthusiasm was for the painters of the early Renaissance . A vacation trip to England from 1935 to 1936 and the associated visit to the National Gallery deepened her enthusiasm for art. Her uncle, the horse painter Karl Scheld, whom she often visited in his studio on Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, was the first to guide her. After Karl Scheld's early death, she continued to work in the studio of the painter Anton Hartmann.

At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937, Heller saw the monumental painting " Guernica " by Picasso . From 1936 to 1938 she completed an interpreting course in English and French in Heidelberg. During this time attended evening classes for life drawing. In 1939 Heller traveled to Paris and met Picasso by chance in a gallery, who thereupon invited her to his studio. A book signed by Picasso including a dedication has been preserved from this encounter.

From 1940 she took courses in a private painting school in Düsseldorf, an application to the Düsseldorf Art Academy there was rejected. In 1941 Heller went to Frankfurt to study at the academy ( Städelschule ) under Günther Graßmann , which, however, was unable to maintain its operations from spring 1945. Heller went back to her hometown of Worms. A year later she showed her own work there in her first solo exhibition.

In 1947 she moved to Munich to continue studying at the Blocher School . A move to the Munich Academy was only possible from 1948 onwards for Heller because of its destruction during the war. Her fascination for the works of the art student Ernst Weil prompted her to enroll with his teacher Willi Geiger . Otto Piene , with whom she became friends, was also in this class . She studied at the Art Academy in Munich from 1949 to 1950, during which time she did her own work as well as works with Otto Piene. Heller shared an interest in French art with Ernst Weil, which led to frequent stays together in Paris and on the Cote d`Azur. In 1950, Heller and Weil married. The marriage ended in divorce in 1964. After the inspiring first few years of their relationship, it became increasingly restrictive for Heller's own ambitions. For this reason, mainly paper works were created during the time of their marriage. Nevertheless, from 1951 to 1959, Heller regularly took part in exhibitions at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.

In 1953 Heller met Picasso again, this time in Vallauris . There she documented Picasso's work on the so-called Peace Temple over a long period of time. In 1955 she exhibited together with Ernst Weil in the Chateau Grimaldi in Antibes and in 1958 again in the Haus der Kunst ("Departure to Modern Art"). From 1957 she worked for Bayerischer Werbefernsehen and also gave private art lessons.

At the end of the 1950s, Heller oriented himself on the French Informel, a variety of tachism. Strongly colored oil paintings were created. The decisive factor for the growing independence was the contact with the student scene of the Philosophical Faculty, the Music Academy and, from 1968, the Technical University in Munich. Works were created from completely new materials. Liquid plexiglass was colored and poured. These "acrylics" were replaced from 1969 by the "Plexiglas disc works" and "slide objects" (spatial images made of Plexiglas); the motifs of the spiral, the snake paraphrases and the grid systems dominated. The material acrylic glass determined the work of Heller in the following years.

In 1977 Heller returned to the surface and to paper and began with the series of dotted “meanders” as a metaphor for infinity and stationary movement. In 1976, 1977 and 1978 Heller exhibited repeatedly in Mainz, Wiesbaden and Munich. From 1999 to 2000, Heller worked on her monograph together with the art historian Horst Ludwig .

In 2006 she moved to Augsburg, where she died in 2009.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2018: "Marie Luise Heller" Kunsthaus Deutschvilla, Strobl am Wolfgangsee, Austria
  • 2018: ”Marie Luise Heller”, Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt
  • 2018: The structures of the world Marie Luise Heller (with Bern Hahn), Galerie von Waldenburg
  • 2012: Accrochage Claudia Weil Galerie, Friedberg
  • 2010: “Lust der Linie” Wittelsbacher Schloss Friedberg
  • 2010: Kunstraum Kettner, Augsburg
  • 2009: Kunstraum Kettner, Augsburg
  • 1999: Water lily price of the city of Munich, exhibition in the art pavilion "Alter Botanischer Garten" with the title "Dialog der Linien"
  • 1997: "Lust der Linien", Museum of the City of Worms
  • 1996: Ignaz-Günther House Munich "Variable Curvatures"
  • 1982: Goethe-Institut in Brussels ”Plexiglas objects, meditation flags and sequences”
  • 1981: “Earth carpet” campaign in Worms “tangible, tangible, incomprehensible”
  • 1981: Cultural Department of the City of Munich
  • 1980: Museum of the City of Worms
  • 1973: Tapestry in the Wylach studio, Wuppertal
  • 1973: Kunstverein Karlsruhe
  • 1972: Exhibition in Studio Orny, Munich
  • 1972: Studio Bruckmann, Munich
  • 1971: Exhibition in the Zurich House, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1955: Exhibition at Chateau Grimaldi, Antibes

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018: ”Spielraum” Kulturspeicher Linz, Austria
  • 2017: "Serial Formations" Daimler Art Collection, Berlin
  • 2017: ”Spielraum” Landesgalerie Linz, Austria
  • 2017: “Push and Pull” Schunck Museum Heerlen, Netherlands
  • 2017: ”Diaphan- Abstract” Object40, Berlin
  • 2016: “Push and Pull”, Schunk Museum Heerlen, Netherlands
  • 2014: ”Play Objects” - The Art of Possibilities ”Museum Tinguely Basel
  • 2013: ”Kunststoff” Kunstverein Spirale, Treuchtlingen
  • 2002: “Art as the Elixir of Life”, Seidl-Villa, Munich
  • 1982: Europatia Grece, Le Labyrinthe, Brussels
  • 1980: Museum Worms
  • 1981: Artist workshop Lothringenstrasse, Munich
  • 1976: "Worms and Frankenthal artists in the Landtag", Mainz Landtag
  • 1975: Art Association Munich
  • 1973: Kunstverein Karlsruhe
  • 1972: Participation in the Olympic exhibition "World Cultures and Modern Art" in the Munich House of Art
  • 1972: Kunstverein Karlsruhe
  • 1971: State Museum Wiesbaden
  • 1970: House of Art, Munich, Munich Autumn Salon
  • 1969: House of Art, Munich
  • 1968: Ancona II ”Annuale Italiana d´Arte grafica”
  • 1967: State Graphic Collection Munich "Art of graphics in and around Munich"
  • 1958: House of Art ”Departure to Modern Art”, Munich
  • 1951–1956: regular exhibition in the Haus der Kunst Munich ”Neue Gruppe”
  • 1946: first exhibition in what was then the Festhaus Worms

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personal data
SURNAME Heller, Marie-Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Because, Marie-Luise; Weil-Heller, Marie-Luise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 2009
Place of death augsburg