Martin Heinig

Martin Heinig (* 1958 in Husum ) is a German painter of Neo-Expressionism . The main focus of his work is painting large-format portraits.

life and work

Martin Heinig was born in Husum in 1958 and went to Berlin in 1979 to study at the Berlin University of the Arts . There he was mainly a student of the painters Georg Baselitz and Wolfgang Petrick , who, along with other painters of this era such as Anselm Kiefer and Sigmar Polke, had a strong influence on his work.

After completing his studies, Heinig worked as a freelance artist in Berlin and, after initial experiments, very quickly turned to very large-format portrait painting in oil and gouache . He presents his pictures in numerous national and international exhibitions and public and private collections, especially in Germany, Canada and China.

Public collections (selection)

• Berlinische Galerie
• Prudential Insurance in Toronto , Canada
• French Embassy in Beijing , China
• Volkswagen AG in Beijing, China
• American Barrick in Toronto, Canada
• Rathenau Culture and Technology Center, Berlin
• Accident Hospital Berlin (UKB)

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• X - MAL LIEBE , producer gallery K 19, Berlin (West) (1984)
• Heads , Kunstverein Schering, Berlin (1985)
• Recent Paintings , Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto (1987)
• New pictures and gouaches , Galerie Brusberg , Berlin (1989)
• Faces , Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto (1990)
• Orange is crossing , Galerie Thilo Steiger, Lübeck (1993)
• Your body, my soul , Odense Art Museum (1995)
• Firenze / Berlino, due realtà a confronto , Libreria CIMA, Florence (1997)
• Pictures from Berlin 1985-1996 , German Embassy Beijing (1997)
• HALLE 75 , Rathenau Art and Technology Center, Berlin (1998)
• HEINIG IS BACK , Gallery Secret Garden, Beijing, China (2001)

Group exhibitions

• 5 x Young Painting , Brusberg Gallery, Berlin (1985)
• Art Cologne (1986, 1987, 1988)
• CIAE, Mira Godard Gallery, Chicago (1988)
• Galerie Berlin, State Art Trade of the GDR, East Berlin (1990)
• Berlin in Mitte , Galerie Berlin, Berlin (1992)
• United Buddy Bears , Berlin (2003), Hong Kong (2004), Istanbul (2004/05), Tokyo (2005), Seoul (2005), Sydney (2006)
• "Wilder Kiez West Berlin" Westphal Berlin, Berlin with Barbara Quandt, Bettina Niedt and Walter Stöhrer (2015)

Literature and illustrated books

• Manfred Schlechter, Martin Heinig: Martin Heinig. Paintings. Berlin 1992
• Martin Heinig: Give gas: 1984 - 2002. Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-936122-91-1
• Martin Heinig: Martin Heinig. Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 2007. (available as CD and DVD)

Web links

• Homepage of Martin Heinig
• Martin Heinig in the Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin
• Literature by and about Martin Heinig in the catalog of the German National Library