Heinz Tetzner
Heinz Tetzner ( born March 8, 1920 in Gersdorf; † August 20, 2007 ) was a German painter and graphic artist of Expressionism.
Biography
Heinz Tetzner was born in the village of Gersdorf in Saxony and lived until his death there. After his apprenticeship as a pattern designer, he entered military service in 1939 at, but she attended in 1941 as a guest student at the Academy of Art Alfred particles in Königsberg. The rest he taught himself an autodidact. Especially the French painter Paul Cézanne had it done to him.
From 1944 Heinz Tetzner was a prisoner of war in southern France. Due to the beautiful scenery there he worked intensively with the art; There were drawings and watercolors first. After his release from captivity in 1946, he studied until 1950 at the Academy of Construction and Fine Arts in Weimar.
During this time, he met the painter Max Pechstein, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt- Rottluff know whose works influenced him greatly. "That was food for me, because they did something that interested me and confirmed in my conception of art - because all painted and lined in expressionistic realism ," Heinz recalled Tetzner back. Pablo Picasso also has it influenced her kind, and to look behind the facade. " In a portrait, I also always try to look behind the facade to explain the background and to consider the psychological. " That's why Heinz Tetzner also painted expressionistic. Even landscapes were for him, to a certain extent portraits.
His first solo exhibition was in 1949 in Weimar Tetzner occasion of the Goethe- year. From 1950 he was a master student of Professor Otto Herbig. The following year he married Charlotte Decker and was first assistant and later professor of color design and life drawing at the School of Construction and the visual arts in Weimar. Since 1954 he works as a freelance painter and graphic artist in his hometown Gersdorf.
Just a year later he was awarded the Max Pechstein Prize of the city of Zwickau. In addition, he was inducted into the Association of Artists of Germany. The art prize of the district Karl- Marx-Stadt got Tetzner in 1956 / 57th 1960 Gersdorfer was appointed as a lecturer at the College of Applied Arts to Schneeberg.
In 1976 there was the first comprehensive solo exhibition at the Municipal Museum in Karl- Marx-Stadt. For the second time in 1987 he received the Max Pechstein Prize of the city of Zwickau. A first develop a partial list of his works from the years 1940 to 1987 was carried out from 1988 to 1990 by the district art center Karl- Marx-Stadt. In the Chemnitz Art Collections took place in 1990 on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Heinz Tetzner a retrospective instead.
Again and again pulled the pensioners to southern France, especially in Provence, whose landscapes he produced watercolors, oil paintings and drawings. 1995 made him his home community Gersdorf an honorary citizen, a year later he was awarded the Prize of the New Saxon Graphics Gallery Chemnitz. Twice he makes between 1996 and 1998 in the Gallery " Montserrat " in New York. In 1999, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit Tetzner first class.
On his 80th birthday in 2000 a grand ceremony was held in Gersdorf. Tetzner received the honorary prize Southwest Saxony and the graphics Price " 100 selected graphics 2000 ". The following year, opened in Gersdorf in Hessenmühle the Tetzner Museum Gersdorf, since the shows changing exhibitions of works by the artist. On the occasion of his 85th birthday, a portrait bust by Konrad Heinz Tetzners hunger was erected in front of the Tetznermuseum.
Heinz Tetzner was - as his wife, Charlotte, who was during her imprisonment at Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1941 " Bible Student " become - a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses. In the Kingdom Hall in Gersdorf, the local meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses, he created a wall painting depicting Jesus Christ.
Even in old age Heinz Tetzner was still working in his studio, but unlike earlier. "All proceeds balanced. I am considering longer what I want to paint or draw, but also need more breaks. An engine you can not even from morning to evening burden, "said Tetzner, the oil painting painted only in the summer when it was warm in his studio. "The little stove there does not warm enough in winter. If I can paint up to 90, then I am very satisfied. "That was Heinz Tetzners goal, but also paint better and better images. A recurrent theme was the Harlequins. "They're sad, even when they laugh, always have two or more different faces. I find that very fascinating. "
Honors and Awards
Works in collections
- Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie
- Bern Ried, Buchheim Museum of Imagination
- Chemnitz, Municipal Art Collections
- Chemnitz, New Saxon Gallery
- Dresden, New Masters Gallery
- Dresden, Prints and Drawings
- Gersdorf, Tetzner Museum
- Glauchau, Museum Schloss Hinterglauchau
- Langenfeld, Museum of Mrs. Stone
- Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
- Moscow, Pushkin Museum
- Weimar Art Collection
- Zwickau, Municipal Museum
Quotes
- "I have always understood the art as art, not as an illustration of ideology as a means of education or similar. They wanted art as a reflection, I look at it as a symbol. "
- "Art is not a clever copying of the things, but a personal interpretation of the beheld and experienced. "