Heinrich Herzig

Heinrich Herzig ( born June 28, 1887 in Rheineck / Canton of St. Gallen, † August 16, 1964 ) was a Swiss artist, primarily a painter in Switzerland and in Germany.

Career

Heinrich Herzig, who grew up in Rheineck, was early in the desire to become a painter. First, however, he learned the fashion at that time profession of embroidery signatory. In the years 1908-1914 he trained for a painter in Munich. He later also lived temporarily with his brother, designed embroidery drawings and painted pictures. His preference was to painting with oil and water colors.

The community Rheineck provided the artists a studio under the old castle are available. In between, he also taught at the local high school. There was a wide range of work: watercolors, oil paintings, woodcuts, glass paintings, illustrations and murals with scenes of anecdotes from everyday life and nature motifs. The popular painter was allowed to receive the dignity of honorary citizen, and after his death devoted Rheineck his name a street.

Works (selection)

• Snow landscape, painted in 1917
• Gant in the Appenzell region, oil painting from 1948
• At the old Rhine, painted 1949
• Study after nature, drawing from 1951
• Mother and child in the Rhine Valley, 1957
• Winter at Wolf Halden painted in 1964