Regine Heinecke
Regine Heinecke (born August 20, 1936 in Zwickau ; † November 7, 2019 ) was a German painter , graphic artist and illustrator .
Life
Under the name Regine Grube-Heinecke, she was one of the most famous illustrators for books for children and young people in the GDR with 80 publications . After apprenticeship in lithography and studying at the University of Graphic Arts and Book Art in Leipzig , she worked as a freelance artist from 1957. Max Schwimmer , art professor in Leipzig in the 1950s and later in Dresden , recommended children's book illustration as a focus of her work, not least because of the great freedom of design in this genre. In the years that followed, Heinecke adorned classics of fairy tale literature, such as the Brothers Grimm and Wilhelm Hauff , but also picture books for preschool and elementary school students with her often bizarre, humorous, poetic, fantastic iconography.
In apparently very simple, succinctly short books for children from the age of four, such as The Moon in the Frog Pond from 1978 and The Imaginary Raindrop , both with texts by Erni Simmich, she succeeded in subtle and child-friendly social criticism.
In addition, he created several, sometimes hearty, works for adults, such as the song collection Mein Liebchen hat ein Something 1968, Cupid's testimony in 1976, love poems by a beautiful Lyonesian rope woman in 1978, Dieter Muckes' The worries of the devil 1979, Manfred Pieske's fairy tale collection Vom much too small Glückspfennig 1981, Scholem Alejchem s Methuselah 1988 or science fiction , such as the volume The Harbor of Stone Storms with six stories by the Russian Genrich Altow 1977.
Image inventions by Regine Heinecke, for example not for Alfred Könner's wines, said the tree from 1980, which bears the note For children from 4 years on , or Dieter Muckes The hippopotamus and the hay horse and the sea horse from 1983 with the note For children from 3 years and for Winfried Völlger's Der Windhahn 1982 are more reminiscent of symbolist paintings than of the familiar children's book aesthetics.
The Voigtsberg Castle museums in Oelsnitz / Vogtland , which have housed the artist's entire oeuvre with 2700 originals since 2008, have made a small part of her creative oeuvre accessible to the public since August 2013 in the Illusorium permanent exhibition .
She lived in Bobenneukirchen .
literature
- Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. 1st edition. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 284–285.
Web links
- Literature by and about Regine Heinecke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Illusory, permanent exhibition at Voigtsberg Castle. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matthias Zwarg : The Queen of Illustrators in the GDR: Regine Heinecke is dead , Freie Presse Online , November 7, 2019.
- ^ Ronny Hager: A misunderstanding: Regine Heinecke and the city of Oelsnitz. In: Freie Presse of March 21, 2015. Accessed April 1, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinecke, Regine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grube-Heinecke, Regine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zwickau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th November 2019 |