Heinrich Hoerle

Heinrich Hoerle
Heinrich Hoerle (September 1, 1895 July 7, 1936) was a German constructivist artist of the New Objectivity movement. Hoerle was born in Cologne. He studied at the Cologne School of Arts and Crafts but was mostly self-taught as an artist. After military service in World War I he met Franz Wilhelm Seiwert in 1919 and worked with him on the journal Ventilator.[1] Together with his wife Anjelika (18991923), Hoerle became active in the Cologne Dada scene. He co-founded the artists' group Stupid, and in 1920 he published the Krppelmappe (Cripples Portfolio). Hoerle's work retained a certain Denkmal der unbekannten Prothesen, 1930, oil on cardboard, 70 x 85 cm. Von der dour absurdism after he adopted a figurative Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal constructivist style influenced by the Russians Vladimir Tatlin and El Lissitzky and by the Dutch movement De Stijl.[2] His paintings feature generic-looking figures, presented in strict profile or in stiff, frontal poses. In 1929 he began publication of "a-z", a journal of progressive artists.[3] He was among the many German artists whose works were condemned as degenerate art when the Nazis took power in 1933.[4] He died in Cologne in 1936.

Notes
[1] [2] [3] [4] Schmied 1978, p. 127. Michalski 1994, p. 116; Poore 2007, p. 34. Michalski 1994, p. 116. Michalski 1994, p. 212.

References
Backes, Dirk; Wolfram Hagspiel and Wulf Herzogenrath (1981). Heinrich Hoerle, Leben und Werk 18951936. Cologne. (Ausstellungskatalog Klnischer Kunstverein) Michalski, Sergiusz (1994). New Objectivity. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen. ISBN 3-8228-9650-0 Poore, Carol (2007). Disability in twentieth-century German culture. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-11595-2 Schmied, Wieland (1978). Neue Sachlichkeit and German Realism of the Twenties. London: Arts Council of Great Britain. ISBN 0-7287-0184-7

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