Heinrich Hoerle Selfportrait
Denkmal der unbekannten Prothesen, 1930, oil on cardboard, 70 x 85 cm. Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal

Heinrich Hoerle (1 September 1895 – 7 July 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 Angelika (1899–1923), Hoerle became active in the Cologne Dada scene. He co-founded the artists' group Stupid, and in 1920 he published the Krüppelmappe (Cripples Portfolio).[1] Hoerle's work retained a certain dour absurdism after he adopted a figurative constructivist style influenced by the Russians Vladimir Tatlin and El Lissitzky, by Fernand Léger, 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 collaboration with Seiwert and Walter Stern on the publication of "a-z", the journal of the Cologne Progressives art group.[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 at the age of 40.

Public collections holding works by Heinrich Hoerle include Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kölnisches Stadtmuseum; Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf; The Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal; and the Busch-Reisinger Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Notes

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

References

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  • Backes, Dirk; Wolfram Hagspiel and Wulf Herzogenrath (1981). Heinrich Hoerle, Leben und Werk 1895–1936. Cologne. (Ausstellungskatalog Kölnischer 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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