Werner Hekel

Werner Hekel (born May 20, 1941 in Murr ) is an expressionist artist.

Career

Hekel's father died in World War II and his mother died when he was 12 years old. He studied at the Stuttgart Art Academy . He lived in Marbach am Neckar from 1962 to 1968 and drew in the style of romantic landscape painting. Werner Hekel then moved to Bavaria and was director of the Hekel gallery in Hersbruck . During this time he dealt with the relationship between color, light and surface. In 1990 Werner Hekel moved to Teichwolframsdorf in Thuringia and found new drawing techniques for himself. Four years later he moved to Großkundorf , a part of Teichwolframsdorf at that time, where he expanded a farm. His last move for the time being was toSeelingstädt , where he acquired a four-sided courtyard with a porstube .

Drawing art

Vincent van Gogh's influence is expressed in his pictures . His favorite subjects are landscapes, still lifes, animals and people. Hekel's works were bought by the Zwickauer Land district office , the cities of Greiz, Nuremberg, Ronneburg and Werdau and the city museums of Greiz and Schwabach .

Exhibitions

• 1962–1968 House of Art Munich, Moripur Palace Ludwigsburg
• 1969–1978 Fürth town hall, Weißenburg town hall , Heideck town hall, Hildburghausen town hall , Ratibor Castle in Roth
• 1979–1984 Hersbruck town hall , The Little Prince Baden-Baden , Gunzenhausen town hall
• 1985–1990 Döhr Altdorf art gallery , Stopfenheim Palace , Hekel Hersbruck art gallery , traveling exhibition Düsseldorf-Bonn-Chicago
• 1991–1992 Summer Palace Greiz , local history museum Werdau , gallery on the market in Gera , Lucas-Cranach-Haus Weimar , coffee lifestyle Greiz
• 1993–1995 gallery at Domhof Zwickau, gallery Schmidt-Ruttloff Chemnitz, agricultural museum Blankenhain , museum Haus Beda Bitburg , theater Greiz
• 2007 exhibitions of the Sparkasse Gera-Greiz in Gera
• 2009 exhibitions in the Vierseithof in Seelingstädt, Greiz gallery shop
• 2011 Exhibition in the Thuringian Parliament in Erfurt

Awards

In 2001 Werner Hekel received the Thuringian Monument Protection Prize for his four-sided farm in Seelingstädt.

Publications

• General lexicon of the artists of the visual and creative arts of the late XX. Century , Nuremberg, Reg.-Nr. 81511
• European Artist Lexicon , Edition Germany Volume 2 G-KL, Reg. 2246
• Painting, graphics, sculpture in the district of Greiz , Office for School Administration, Culture and Sport, 1997