Reinhold Heller (painter)

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Reinhold Heller (born April 26, 1933 in Haid , Bohemia ; † November 18, 1993 in Eresing , Bavaria ) was a German painter and member of the Munich artist groups Wir und Geflecht.

life and work

During his studies with Richard Seewald at the Munich Academy from 1953 to 1958, Heller experienced the rise of non-representational painting. While still a student, he met some like-minded people in the artist group Quattrocento in 1955 . The programmatic group name was reminiscent of the time when modern painting was created in the 15th century in Italy, the epoch of which contemporaries had just declared to be out of date. Heller was not looking for a break in tradition or even a new beginning without preconditions, but preferred to see himself and his work as part of art history. In addition, like Picasso , Asger Jorn or Hans Platschek, he held fast to the object - or at least to the assertion of an object. The association with the artist group We, of which he became a member in 1961. In addition to studying fine arts, he also studied violin with Edith von Voigtländer at the University of Music. 1958 to 1960 he made his state examination in art education. From 1960 to 1993 Heller was an art teacher at the St. Ottilien Humanist High School and has lived in Eresing ever since . At the beginning of his time as a member of the group We, Heller initiated the shooting of the film Über den Barocken Raum . The baroque spatial experience was an important inspiration for Heller. This can be seen in his works above all in the fact that they are usually composed around a center, like the baroque church around the altar. In 1966 we merged with the artist group SPUR under the group name Geflecht.

From around 1970 he withdrew from painting and concentrated on his teaching post, his family and violin making. It was not until the 1980s that a very musical late work began, in which he brought his two passions, art and music, to a synthesis.

Works

  • Saint Michael with a flaming sword (Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, inv. No. 15765) 1961, 110 × 110 cm, canvas
  • Robbery of the Daughters of Leukippos II (Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, Inv. No. 16077), 1962, 117 × 156 cm, mixed media on canvas
  • Untitled (Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Museum Lothar Fischer), 1964, 74 × 180 cm, oil, material on canvas
  • The new Melusine (Durbach, Museum of Contemporary Art - Hurrle Collection), 1965, 138 × 154 cm, dispersion on canvas
  • Traffic jam (Regensburg, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie), 1965, 128 × 150 cm, acrylic on canvas
  • Braid (Emden, Kunsthalle), 1966, 147 × 210 × 110 cm, iron / wire painted

literature

  • Kunstverein Munich and Kunstverein Salzburg (ed.): Group We. 1959-1965. Exhibition catalog of the Munich Art Association, Munich 1987
  • Rainer Beck: Reinhold Heller. Exhibition catalog of Hasieber & Roth, Munich 1989
  • Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen (ed.): The braid group. Anti-object. 1965-1968. Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-88960-020-4
  • Galerie Helmut Leger (ed.): Reinhold Heller. Review. Munich 1997
  • Galerie Helmut Leger (ed.): Reinhold Heller. Review. Munich 1999
  • Pia Dornacher, Lydia Rea Hartl and Selima Niggl (eds.): Braid group. Works from 1965–1968. Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88960-092-9
  • Steffen Dengler: Reinhold Heller - works. Exhibition catalog of the Dengler and Dengler Gallery, Stuttgart 2009
  • Margit Brehm (Ed.): Trailblazer, companion. Art from the past 60 years. Exhibition catalog of the Museum of Contemporary Art - Hurrle Durbach Collection. fluideditions, Karlsruhe 2010, ISBN 978-3-941850-18-7
  • Franz Hämmerle and Ruprecht Volz: Reinhold Heller (1933–1993). Artist, mentor, friend. EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2014, ISBN 978-3-8306-7663-8
  • Pia Dornacher and Selma Niggl (eds.): Group We. 1959-1965. Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-88960-146-9

Exhibitions

  • 1958 Large art exhibition, Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • 1960 Quattrocento Group, Schaezler-Palais, Augsburg
  • 1962–1965 autumn salon of the group Wir, Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • 1963 Group We, New Darmstadt Secession, Darmstadt
  • 1965 Group Wir, Galerie Casa, Munich
  • 1965 Group We, BMW Pavilion, Hamburg
  • 1966 Braid group, Van de Loo Gallery, Munich
  • 1966 Braid group, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Essen
  • 1966 Autumn Salon, House of Art, Munich
  • 1966 Labyrinths, Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 1967 Braid group, Kunsthalle, Kiel
  • 1967 Braid group, Kunstverein, Freiburg
  • 1968 Braid group, Forum of the Van de Loo Gallery, Munich
  • 1983 Cobra, Spur, Wir, Netz, Kollektiv Herzogstraße, Galerie im Ganserhaus, Wasserburg am Inn
  • 1984 Gallery of Artists, Munich
  • 1985 Kunstverein, Bonn
  • 1985 Society for Current Art eV, Bremen
  • 1985 Art of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1985, National Gallery, Berlin
  • 1986 group work, gallery in the Cordonhaus, Cham
  • 1986 Braid group, Schübbe Gallery, Düsseldorf-Mettmann
  • 1987 Group We. 1959–1965, Kunstverein, Munich, Kunstverein Salzburg
  • 1987 Group We, Galerie Gabriele von Loeper, Hamburg
  • 1989 Figure and Space, Hasieber & Roth Gallery, Munich
  • 1991 anti-object. The group Geflecht, Kunsthalle, Kiel, Kunsthalle Mannheim and Märkisches Museum der Stadt Witten
  • 1993/1994 Art Brut. Another art. Field of vision and effect, Kunstverein Augsburg, Kulturhaus Graz, Kunstverein Bielefeld in the Museum Waldorf
  • 1995 Braid group, Galerie Helmut Leger, Munich
  • 1996 Spur, Wir, Geflecht, Kollektiv Herzogstraße, Galerie Helmut Leger, Munich
  • 2006 Braid plant. KUNSTFORUM Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg
  • 2007 Braid group. Works from 1965 to 1968, Rathausgalerie, Munich
  • 2009 painter of the former group WIR, Galerie Gabriele von Loeper, Hamburg
  • 2009 Bavarian Way of Pop Art. Snapshots from the 1960s. Ludi Armbruster, HM Bachmayer, Lothar Fischer, Reinhold Heller, Florian Köhler, Michael Langer, Uwe Lausen, Heino Naujoks, Heimrad Prem, Helmut Rieger, Helmut Sturm, HP Zimmer, Galerie Marie-José van de Loo, Munich
  • 2010 pioneer, companion. Art from the past 60 years. Museum of Contemporary Art - Hurrle Durbach Collection
  • 2014 Reinhold Heller (1933–1993). Artist, mentor, friend, St. Ottilien monastery gallery
  • 2015 Group We. 1959-1965. Museum Lothar Fischer Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pia Dornacher and Selma Niggl (eds.): Group We. 1959-1965. Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-88960-146-9 , page 72
  2. ↑ Steffen Dengler: Reinhold Heller - works. Exhibition catalog of the Dengler and Dengler Gallery, Stuttgart 2009, page 6
  3. ↑ Dieter Honisch u. a .: 1945–1985 Art in the Federal Republic of Germany. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-87584-158-1 , page 195
  4. ^ Rainer Beck: Reinhold Heller. Exhibition catalog of Hasieber & Roth, Munich 1989, page 10
personal data
SURNAME Heller, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Haid , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1993
Place of death Eresing , Bavaria