Wolf Heinecke

Wolf Heinecke (born May 13, 1929 in Friedrichroda , Thuringia ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

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After Heinecke came into contact with modern art for the first time in 1946 in the form of works by the Bauhaus artists in Weimar , he began studying art in 1947 at the State University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar (now the Bauhaus University ). His instructors included Professors Hoffmann-Lederer, Kirchberger , Otto Herbig and Schäfer-Ast.

After a two-year stay in Berlin, he moved to Mannheim in 1952 and became a member of the BBK Mannheim- Heidelberg . Here he came into contact with the painter and filmmaker Franz Schömbs and worked on his abstract film "The Birth of Light" in 1957/58. In 1958 he made architectural models and created the first wall designs on public and private buildings. From 1964 he was a member of the Friends of Young Art Munich (later also a member of the Friends of Young Art Baden-Baden ) and a member of the Rhein-Neckar Artists' Association . In 1974 he joined the New Darmstadt Secession as a member . Heinecke has lived and worked in Bad Dürkheim - Leistadt since 1990 .

Prizes and awards

• 1969 8th International Miró Prize for Drawings, Barcelona
• 1973 Willibald Kramm Prize, Heidelberg
• 1984 Varnholt Prize, Mannheim

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1966 Lauter Gallery , Mannheim
• 1969 Art Association, Augsburg
• 1977, 1985 Kunsthalle , Mannheim
• 1979 Art Association, Speyer
• 1989, 1999 Kunstverein, Mannheim
• 1990 Feuerbachhaus , Speyer
• 1996 Scharpf Gallery of the Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen
• 1999 Otto-Dix-Haus, Gera / Thuringia
• 2000 Regional Gallery South Hesse, Darmstadt
• 2006 Profile Gallery, Weimar

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolf Heinecke in the catalog of the German National Library