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Bernhard Heisig (31 March 1925 – 10 June 2011) was a German painter and graphic artist. Long-time director of the Leipzig Academy (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst; 1961–64, 1976–87) and a leading figure in East Germany's Leipzig School, which included Wolfgang Mattheuer and Werner Tübke, he painted in the tradition of Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and Oskar Kokoschka. His experiences from World War II on both the western and eastern fronts were a recurring subject in his art beginning in the late 1960s, and it is for these works that he is best known in the West. Highly regarded on both sides of the Berlin Wall in the 1980s, he was at the center of controversy after German unification when his painting Time and Life was selected to hang in the German parliament.[1] The painting is a panorama of German history and hangs in the cafeteria on the first floor of the Reichstag building.[2] The controversy was part of the larger German-German Bilderstreit (image battle) over what role East German art and artists should be allowed to play in the new Germany.

References

Further reading

• April Eisman, Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany (Camden House, 2018). ISBN 1-64014-031-X.
• April Eisman, "Denying Difference in the Post-Socialist Other: Bernhard Heisig and the Changing Reception of an East German Artist." Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, no. 2 (2012): 45-73 (PDF).
• Renate Hartleb, Bernhard Heisig (Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1975).
• Karl Max Kober, Bernhard Heisig (Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1981).
• Jörn Merkert & Peter Pachnicke, Bernhard Heisig: Retrospektive (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1989).
• Dietulf Sander, Bernhard Heisig als Buchillustrator (Leipzig: Faber & Faber, 2007).

External links

• Media related to Bernhard Heisig at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Bernhard Heisig

Bernhard Heisig (* 31. März 1925 in Breslau, Niederschlesien; † 10. Juni 2011 in Strodehne, Brandenburg) war ein deutscher Maler. Er wird (mit Hans Mayer-Foreyt, Werner Tübke und Wolfgang Mattheuer) zur Leipziger Schule gezählt und gilt als einer der wichtigsten Repräsentanten der Kunst in der DDR. Seine Malerei geht in ihrer Abstraktion über einen Sozialistischen Realismus hinaus, auch wenn einzelne Werke bzw. Schaffensphasen, in denen beispielsweise Historienbilder (Pariser Kommune), ein Dimitrow- und ein Lenin-Porträt entstanden, einschränkend dagegen sprechen.

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- [en] Bernhard Heisig

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[it] Bernhard Heisig

Bernhard Heisig (Breslavia, 31 marzo 1925 – Havelaue, 10 giugno 2011) è stato un pittore e illustratore tedesco.

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[ru] Хайзиг, Бернхард

Бернхард Хайзиг (нем. Bernhard Heisig; 31 марта 1925, Бреслау — 10 июня 2011, Хафелауэ) — немецкий художник. Наряду с Вернером Тюбке и Вольфгангом Маттхойером, принадлежит к послевоенной лейпцигской школе живописи и является одним из крупнейших мастеров живописи ГДР. Писал преимущественно в стиле социалистического реализма. Известен также своими книжными иллюстрациями.

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