Selected works from the estate of the artist, you will find from 07. March to 27. March in our offices. The exhibition opening is on 07. March at 15:00 watch! Parallel are further works in the listed villa of house and reason in the direct neighborhood to see.
Heinrich Siepmann, a retrospective
The abstract painter and graphic artist Heinrich Siepmann , who died in 2002, is one of the most important representatives of the German post-war avant-garde. Born in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1904, he studied from 1925 to 1927 at the Folkwangschule in Essen under Karl Kriete, Josef Urbach and Joseph Enseling. His realistic figurative early work shows landscapes and still lifes. From 1948 Siepmann was one of the founding fathers of the artist group "junger westen" alongside Gustav Deppe, Thomas Grochowiak, Ernst Hermanns, Emil Schumacher and Hans Werdehausen. It was during these years that Siepmann found his outstanding path into geometric abstraction. His late work is characterized by a clear, pure form and constructivist design.
In 1962 Siepmann received the "Ruhrpreis for Kunst and Wissenschaft der Stadt Mülheim a.d. Ruhr", followed by the "Ernst der Stadt Hagen" in 1979, the "Grand Prix" of the International Biennale for Printmaking in Seoul in 1981and the "Ida-Gerhardi-Preis" in 1997. His works are presented in many museums and public collections, for example in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, in the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, in the Folkwang Museum, Essen, in the Museum for konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt and in the State Russian Museum St. Petersburg.
