Wilhelm Heise (artist, 1892)

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Wilhelm Heise (born May 19, 1892 in Wiesbaden , † September 17, 1965 in Munich ) was a German artist and university professor.

Life

After school in Metz and a commercial apprenticeship in an electronics store, Heise, the son of a military officer , made the acquaintance of a Trübner student in Kassel . The first - impressionistic - pictures followed, all of which have disappeared, and a seminar for a drawing teacher in Kassel for six months. Then Heise went to Hans Olde in Weimar .

In 1912 Hans Olde came to the Kassel Art Academy and accepted Heise into his class. Heise was forced to earn money as he was not financially supported by his family. Through Oldes mediation he received a scholarship for training in the book trade, in particular artistic book design in Berlin and Leipzig . Heise's expressionist book illustrations developed from this later.

Due to the beginning of the First World War and a lack of money, Heise had to finish his training in 1914/15. A private tutor at Princess Reuss in Züllichau and my own bookbinding work left hardly any free time for personal artistic work.

In 1916 Heise married Lisa Schmidt (1893–1969), whom he had met in Kassel when she was training to be a piano teacher. After plans to renovate and live in Ludwigstein Castle near Kassel came to nothing, the couple moved to Hofgeismar , and in March 1918 to Munich . Both had a son, but divorced in 1919. Lisa Heise became known as the recipient of letters to a young woman from Rainer Maria Rilke , which she published after his death in 1930, and wrote a novel herself ( Der Brunnen , Leipzig 1952).

In Munich, Wilhelm Heise took in the "evening life drawing" art school from Moritz Heymann part. From autumn he had a studio together with Erich Glette and Martin Lauterburg on Flower Street. The first - expressionist - book illustrations followed : Don Quixote (1918); Fairy tales from the river, Maculaturalia, The Miss of Scuderi (1919).

In 1920 Heise painted dials for a watch dealer for export to the USA. In autumn he painted his first pictures on wood: “... I now painted my pictures just as carefully as I painted the clocks and had previously bound my books. When I started to work in graphics again a few years later, I extended this care to include it too. "

1926–1928 Heise had an apartment on Lake Starnberg . In 1929 he received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome . From 1931 to 1932 his second stay was at the Villa Massimo.

1924–1936, the most important graphic works were the nocturnal flower pieces , a series of stone engravings, which Heise himself referred to as his “actual graphic work”. Several hundred of them can be seen in numerous domestic and foreign museums. During this decade Heise painted around fifty pictures - these were his most productive years.

From 1925 to 1935 he took part in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad (see below). From 1937 to 1943 he worked as a teacher at the state master school in Königsberg . From 1943 to 1953 he was a professor at the art academy "Städel-Schule" in Frankfurt am Main . In 1946 Heise took over the management, the internal reorganization and the external reconstruction of the Städelschule as a state university for fine arts. In 1953 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Here he headed a class for painting and strict nature drawing until his retirement in 1957.

On September 17, 1965, Heise committed suicide in Munich.

Works (selection)

  • The Morning (1921, oil on panel)
  • The City (1922, oil on panel)
  • Small garden flower (n.d., graphic, lithograph)
  • Nocturnal pieces of plants (19 stone etchings, printed on the hand press, 1924)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1925: Mannheim , Städtische Kunsthalle (New Objectivity)
  • 1928: Berlin (Galerie Wiltschek) and Warsaw
  • 1929: Kassel , Kunstverein
  • 1930: Berlin, Reckendorfhaus (art paper exhibition arranged by P. Westheim)
  • 1931: Essen , artist association
  • 1932: Munich, Städtische Galerie (collective exhibition)
  • 1934: Venice , Biennale (special support from Eberhard Hanfstaengl)
  • 1936: Los Angeles (The Print Maker's Society in California International)
  • 1937: Paris , world exhibition
  • During the National Socialist era, he also took part in the exhibitions in the Glaspalast and later in the Haus der Kunst (Munich).
  • 1972: Frankfurt am Main, Städel : Wilhelm Heise Memorial Exhibition 1892–1965

Paintings by Wilhelm Heise are owned by the Städtische Galerie, the Stadtmuseum and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung in Munich, the Berlin Nationalgalerie, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the municipal art collections in the Albrechtsburg Castle in Meißen and private collectors.

Heise had been a member of the Munich Secession since the late twenties .

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Heise (Hrsg.): Wilhelm Heise - a painter photographs in East Prussia. Zurich 1982, 160 p. M. numerous Fig .; ISBN 3-280-01324-0
  • Wilhelm Heise u. Andreas Heise (Ed.): East Prussia as it was - in rediscovered photographs by a painter. Stuttgart 1983

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life fighter showed greatness , inSüdthüringen.de May 1, 2012, accessed July 3, 2014
  2. ^ Announcements from the Hessian Association for Regional History , accessed on July 3, 2014.
  3. ^ Nocturnal Flower Pieces, University of Richmond Museum exhibit 2010 ( Memento of March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Heise, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1965
Place of death Munich