Paul Heimen

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Paul Heimen (born March 16, 1908 in Kaldenkirchen , † August 25, 1978 in Herongen ) was a painter from the Lower Rhine region .

life and work

After the First World War, Paul homes for economic reasons had as a commercial artist working, an activity that he intermittently from 1918 to 1967 in the Dutch town of Venlo exercised. From 1927 to 1934 he studied art at the "Hooger Institut voor Schoone Kunsten" in Antwerp and was a student of Isidor Opsomer . After completing his studies, he worked in his own studio in Antwerp for a year. In 1937 he received the art prize of the city of Rheydt . After the Second World War , which Heimen experienced as a soldier in Osnabrück, he moved to Louisenburg near Straelen , where he lived with his family until his death and worked intensively on painting. His main subject was the Lower Rhine, which he depicted in still lifes, nudes, portraits and landscapes. Heimen “consciously distanced himself from the artistic experiments of his time”. He rejected the modern art movements as technically immature and said about his art: “Art must be developed consistently. The artist has to deal with his work critically and striving to design down to the last detail ”.

A large part of his oeuvre consists of nudes and portraits, in later years landscapes and still lifes dominated. After the war Heimen took part in the exhibitions of the Rheinhausen ironworks ; the pictures for the exhibition “Artists see a steelworks” were taken on site in the Rheinhausen factory. The art critic Sigrid Blomen-Radermacher wrote of Heimen's travel pictures: "His palette ranges from heavy, impasto , worn landscapes to pieces of flowers spraying color and capturing the essence of a character in portraits to images full of lightness."

Heimen's works are in the collections of the Mönchengladbach Museum Abteiberg and the cities of Mönchengladbach, Viersen and Nettetal. A street in Dülken was named after him.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1928: Institut Supérieure de Beaux Arts, Antwerp
  • 1929: Kaiser Wilhelm Museum , Krefeld
  • 1937: City Hall, Rheydt
  • 1939: House of Art, Mönchengladbach
  • 1942: Viersen festival hall
  • 1946: Municipal Museum, Mönchengladbach
  • 1954: Ingenhoven Castle, Lobberich
  • 1957: Municipal Kramer Museum, Kempen
  • 1966: Krefeld town hall
  • 1970: Grefrath State Garden Show
  • 1972: Galerie Kocken, Kevelaer
  • 2000: Municipal gallery in Viersen Park

literature

  • Sigrid Blomen-Radermacher / Christian Krausch: Paul Heimen . In: Five artist portraits from the Lower Rhine . Ed. Foundation “Nature and Culture”, Krefeld 2000, ISBN 3-87448-211-1 .
  • Margret Cordt: Paul Heimen . In: Heimatbuch des Kreis Viersen , Viersen 1982.
  • Artist portrait Paul Heimen. In: Rheinische Post from December 29, 1951.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sigrid Blomen-Radermacher: Paul Heimen . In: Five artist portraits from the Lower Rhine . Krefeld 2000.
  2. ^ Niederrheinisches Tageblatt of March 16, 1968.
  3. ↑ In: Five artist portraits from the Lower Rhine . Krefeld 2000. p. 189.

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personal data
SURNAME Heimen, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaldenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1978
Place of death Herongen