Robert Heinecken

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Robert Heinecken (born December 29, 1931 in Denver , Colorado , † May 19, 2006 in Albuquerque , New Mexico ) was an American artist and photographer .

life and work

Robert Heinecken grew up as the son of a Lutheran priest in Riverside , California . After graduating from school, he began studying at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1951 , which he had to interrupt when he began his military service in the United States Navy in 1954 . He began as a fighter pilot and ended his military career as an officer with the rank of captain in the United States Marine Corps in 1957 , although he himself remained in the United States Marine Corps Reserve until 1966 . He then earned his bachelor's and master's degree in printing and photography from UCLA. In 1962 he founded the photography program there and stayed on as a university professor until 1990, occasionally teaching at the VSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has taught, among others, John Divola , Judith Golden , Jo Ann Callis , Patrick Nagatani and Leonard Nimoy .

On May 19, 2006, Heinecken died in a nursing home in Albuquerque. He had suffered from Alzheimer's disease since 1994 and moved to New Mexico in 2004 with his second wife, Joyce Neimanas.

Exhibitions

  • 1990: "Amnésie médiatique: l'oeuvre de Robert Heinecken, 1966-2000", Rencontres de la photographie, Arles
  • 2007: "Robert Heinecken", Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography
  • 2011: "Speaking in Tongues: The Art of Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken", Armory Center for the Arts
  • 2011: "Let the experiment begin: Photographic Process in Los Angeles, 1960–1980", Los Angeles County Museum
  • 2012: "Figure and form in contemporary photography", Los Angeles County Museum
  • 2014: "Robert Heinecken: Object Matter," Museum of Modern Art, New York

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christopher Knight: Robert Heinecken, 74; Pioneered Use of Commercial Photographs to Create Art , latimes.com , May 21, 2006, accessed February 28, 2015
  2. ↑ Jessica Wolf: Leonard Nimoy, 83, longtime supporter of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. On: newsroom.ucla.edu. February 27, 2015, accessed February 28, 2015.
  3. ^ Speaking in Tongues exhibition with Wallace Berman .
  4. ^ Armory Center Speaking in Tongues .
  5. ↑ LACMA Let the experiment begin .
  6. ^ LACMA Figure and form in contemporary photography .
  7. ^ Robert Heinecken: Object Matter . MoMA. Retrieved March 30, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Heinecken, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 2006
Place of death Albuquerque , New Mexico