Heinrich Steiner (October 16, 1911 – January 29, 2009) was a German

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

and

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...

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Life and work

Heinrich Steiner was born 1911 in

Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfur ...

as a son of a theatre director. In 1926, he visited the college of arts and crafts in

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and from 1927 to 1929 he learned scene painting in the Hamburg national theatre and the Berlin national theatre. Subsequently, he was active as a scene painter in the theatre "Am Gärtnerplatz" in Munich. From the year 1932 to 1934 he studied in the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich with

Karl Caspar Karl Caspar (13 March 1879 – 21 September 1956) was a German painter who lived and worked mainly in Munich. Life and work Karl Caspar studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 1904 Ca ...

. He lived from 1934 and 1938 as a freelance painter in Düsseldorf and did study trips to Paris,

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, Amsterdam and Zurich. Heinrich Steiner left Germany in 1938 and went to Florence, where he joined the circle of German artists in Italy. A student of Henri Matisse -

Rudolf Levy Rudolf Levy (15 July 1875, in Stettin – January 1944, in Italy or Auschwitz) was a German expressionist painter of Jewish ancestry. Life He came from an Orthodox family. While he was still a boy, they moved to Danzig, where he grew up. Aft ...

had particular influence on Steiner's art. In Florence, he studied at the Florentine Academy of

Felice Carena Felice Carena (13 August 1879 – 10 June 1966) was an Italian painter. Biography Born at Cumiana, he studied in the Turin's Accademia Albertina, where he attended symbolist poets such as Arturo Graf and Giovanni Cena. In 1906 he moved to ...

and lived in the Guesthouse Bandini on the Piazza Santo Spirito in Florence, together with German artists such as

and Eduard Bargheer. In 1939, he exhibited his paintings in Florence for the first time. Further exhibitions in

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and Milan followed. In 1946, he is awarded the foreigner Prize "Premio Colomba" at the

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. On the same

Carlo Carrà Carlo Carrà (; February 11, 1881 – April 13, 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number ...

and

Massimo Campigli Massimo Campigli (; born Max Ihlenfeld, 4 July 189531 May 1971) was an Italian painter and journalist. Biography He was born in Berlin, but spent most of his childhood in Florence. His family moved to Milan in 1909, and here he worked on the '' ...

were awarded. The major Venetian art dealer

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took him under contract. In 1948, he moved to

. In 1949, the Cardazzo contract was not renewed and he returned to Florence. In 1950, he married Giuliana Toti in Florence and returned to Germany, where he worked as a

and

art teacher Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of what ...

. Steiner was a member of the secession art movement Palatinate, like

Hans Purrmann Hans Marsilius Purrmann (April 10, 1880 – April 17, 1966) was a German artist. He was born in Speyer where he also grew up. He completed an apprenticeship as a scene painter and interior decorator, and subsequently studied in Karlsruhe and ...

, Edvard Frank and Will Sohl. In 1953 he is awarded the Palatinate Prize for Painting by the city of

and an exhibition was held there. Further exhibitions were held at the Kunstverein

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, Westend Gallery Frankfurt, national art school in Mainz and the Gallery "l'attico esse arte" in Rome. In 1974, Steiner moved back to Italy and lived and worked in Rome and

Lerici Lerici ( lij, Lerxi, locally ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of La Spezia in Liguria (northern Italy), part of the Italian Riviera. It is situated on the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia, southeast of La Spezia. It is known as the place ...

. He died in Rome, Italy in 2009.

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