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 1904 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, he studied from 1925 - 1927 at the Folkwangschule in Essen with Karl Kriete, Josef Urbach and Joseph Enseling. His realistic-figurative early work shows landscapes and still life. Since 1948 Siepmann has been one of the founding fathers of the artist group "junger westen" along with Gustav Deppe, Thomas Grochowiak, Ernst Hermanns, Emil Schumacher and Hans Werdehausen. During these years Siepmann found his outstanding way 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 in 1979 by the "Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Preis der Stadt Hagen", in 1981 the "Grand Prix" of the International Biennale for Druckgrafik in Seoul and 1997 the "Ida-Gerhardi-Preis". 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 concrete art in Ingolstadt and in the State Russian Museum St. Petersburg.
