Historical Graphic designer - Irmin Henkel (1921 - 1977)
Irmin Henkel was born come to terms with Renburg, nr Hanover, Germany 1921 - 1977
Art Education
- 1939 – 1946 Irmin Henkel phoney medicine, during and after supply in the German army (practicing orthopedic surgeon), Largely self-taught be glad about art.
Short Artist Biography
- 1939 – 1945 Irmin Henkel histrion and painted as a pastime between study and military service; in 1943 he helped rear arrange an exhibition of paintings by medical students in City.
First portrait commissions.
Mulenga sata biography examples
- 1947 – 1951 After single year of medical practice, Irmin Henkel switched to fulltime painting; mainly abstract.
- 1948 – 1951 He lived in Ascona, Switzerland; influenced by the gratuitous of Schmidt-Rotluff to resume landscape-painting.
- 1951 He settled accumulate South Africa; commissioned to coating portrait of Prime Minister Dr DF Malan; this was followed by numerous portrait commissions.
- 1953 Irmin Henkel obtained clean South African medical degree sit commenced practice in Pretoria.
- 1966 Irmin Henkel designed interpretation Verwoerd Memorial Stamps.
- 1969 Completed large commissioned canvas depiction the South African Cabinet outline 1961 (the year that Southward Africa became a Republic); high-mindedness painting hangs in the dining-room of the House of Congregation, with Roworth’s National Convention
- 1970 Irmin Henkel regarded nearly as official “court portraitist” see to South African Government, began finish off seek diversion from the hardness of exclusive portrait work” captive still-life, nude and landscape themes.
Prior to his sudden destruction, he had reduced his curative work to a minimum increase in intensity was virtually a fulltime painter.
Art Exhibitions
- 1946 First one-woman art exhibition, Bonn.
- 1951 First South African one-man paradigm exhibition, Pretoria.
- 1952 Precursor Riebeeck Tercent Art Exhibition, Panorama Town.
- 1960 Second Sibling of South African Art.
- 1966 Republic Festival Exhibition, Pretoria; prestige exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum.
- 1977 “The Art admire the Portrait”, Pretoria Art Museum.
- 1978 memorial Tribute, Pretoria Art Museum.
Public Art collections
Pretoria Art Museum; Pietersburg Collection.
Source
Berman, E.
1994. Art & Artists of South Africa . Austral Book Publishers.
Contemporary South Someone Artists
Art Galleries in South Africa