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Erwin Heerich (29 November 1922 in Kassel – 6 November 2004 in
From 1945 to 1950 Heerich studied fine arts at the
Museumsplattform NRW: Erwin Heerichartnews.orgartslant.com
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Meerbusch
Meerbusch () is a town in Rhein-Kreis Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has been an incorporated town since 1970. Meerbusch is the municipality with the most income millionaires in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Geography
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, Germany) was a German artist.
Life and work
From 1945 to 1950 Heerich studied fine arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová ...
under Ewald Mataré. From 1950 to 1954, he belonged, together with Joseph Beuys
Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( , ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and anthroposophy. He was a founder of a provocative art mov ...
, to the master class of his professor. At that time, he chiefly produced sculptures representing animals and drawings of plants. In 1954, he left the Düsseldorf academy and worked as an artist and art teacher. Since 1959, he used cardboard as his artistic material. He presented 10 of these "Kartonplastiken" at the documenta IV (1968) in Kassel.
Heerich emphasized that for him, "cardboard, like polystyrene, had no specifically aesthetic or historical connotations, the materials are value-neutral to the largest possible extent." Furthermore, the artist was not primarily "concerned with the manifestation of an art object, but with making an idea material in terms of a specific problem: how space can be presented and formed."
From 1969 to 1988 he was a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1974 he became also a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
The Academy of Arts (german: Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany.
The Academy's predecessor organization was fo ...
.
From 1982 to 1994 he created eleven exhibition pavilions for the Museum Insel Hombroich
The Museum Insel Hombroich (Museum Island Hombroich), Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is both a park and a museum combining architecture, art and nature on over 62 acres of meadowland. The park includes the "Kirkeby-Feld" and the "Raketenst ...
, which were called "chapels in the landscape". His elemental sculptures became the design base for these gallery pavilions.
In 1978 Heerich received the Will Grohmann Prize in Berlin. In 1987 he received the Max Beckmann Prize in Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
and in 1995 the Anton Stankowski Prize in Stuttgart.Hollaus, p. 44.
References
Further reading
*Hans van der Grinten, ''Erwin Heerich: Plastische Modelle und Diagrammzeichnungen''. Berlin 1983. *Franz Joseph van der Grinten, "Erwin Heerich – Plastische Form und Denkmodell", ''Das Kunstwerk'', volume 37, 1984, no. 4, pp. 15–25. *Joachim Peter Kastner, ''Erwin Heerich''. Cologne 1991. *Heinz-Norbert Jocks, "Das Maßliche – zum 70. Geburtstag des Bildhauers Erwin Heerich". In ''Düsseldorfer Hefte'', No. 22, November 1, 1992, pp. 16 – 21. *Christoph Brockhaus, ''Erwin Heerich: Plastische Prozesse''. Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Europäisches Zentrum moderner Skulptur, 1992. *Christoph Brockhaus, ed., ''Trikona : Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum Duisburg 1994: Erwin Heerich, Katsuhito Nishikawa''. Duisburg 1994. *Wolfgang Schepers, ''Kunst + Design : Erwin Heerich: Plastische Modelle für Architektur und Skulptur''. Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf 1995. *Erwin Heerich, ''Die Entwicklung architektonischer Skulpturen''. Cologne 1999. *Margot Klütsch, ''Erwin Heerich: Werke in Meerbusch: Skulpturen, Modelle, Papierarbeiten'' (2005). *Kerstin Walter, ''Das Pittoreske: Die Theorie des englischen Landschaftsgartens als Baustein zum Verständnis von Kunst der Gegenwart''. Worms 2006.External links
*Museumsplattform NRW: Erwin Heerich
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