Heinrich Hoerle: Order expressive art
Born in Cologne in 1895, the artist convinces with expressive paintings that not everyone has in his room. His autodidactic art route led the painter through the School of Applied Arts to various artists' associations. Like Max Ernst, he belonged to the group "Dada". Later, he was one of the Cologne progressives who wanted to depict the people in his social context. Hoerle was always committed to the avant-garde, also as a member of the "Gereonclub". In "Kölner Zeitgenossen" he places five people in front of a geometrically dissected landscape. Does the carnival hat of the left-hand man refer to the whole social event? His art, shaped by Leger and Constructivism, uses a visual language that is based on surfaces, forms and lines.
Old Master in a new guise
Although Heinrich Hoerle was born in the 19th century, his paintings still look very modern today. In "Masks" we meet a colorfully diced carnival troupe, which radiates something sinister through the disguise. This image raises questions: Are the arms raised upwards a sign of cheerfulness or are you signaling a follower? The strictly geometrical shapes give the figures something mathematical, especially since mouth, eyes and nose are represented as dark circles or simple lines. Skillfully, the painter relies on light and shadow as well as a perspective image structure.
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In a fascinating way, the Rhineland artist has dealt with the change of life through industry. Red, cube-like buildings and a mighty, red chimney mean at Hoerle equally "landscape" and "industrial landscape". Nature itself, it seems, has retreated to the flat roofs as a color green. With horizontal, dark and transparent, red lines and ribbons, the painter creates a background that makes one think equally at dawn and dusk. A green pear on the middle cube roof stands as a symbol. But for what? This copy poses questions and invites to intellectual argument.
Framed subjects for each room
The German painter can not be determined. Cubist, even surrealistic, we encounter his works. "Still Life with Plant and Butterfly" presents two lush lilies whose sweeping dark green leaves look like living arms swinging through the air. In contrast, the wooden casket in the foreground of the picture and the impaled butterfly in fluorescent green have a direct static effect. It is impressive how the artist is able to create suspense in a still life through light and dark contrasts, through light and shadow, movement and statics.
Gorgeous color games in the best quality
Like his famous colleague Oskar Schlemmer, Heinrich Hoerle dissected figures into geometric planes. His oil painting "Woman" shows an almost mathematical distribution of colors. The focus is on bright and dark colors, but also on the dissolution of figure and background. It is obvious that the figure seems to be an area of ​​differently accentuated areas with the background. Especially in its quiet static, this work as a canvas image also looks at the distance. Similarly, the artist treats the image process in "Seiwert and I". Details are missing. But posture, light and dark colors as well as the yellow circle set priorities and create an almost intimate, facing atmosphere!
