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 (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 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

^ ^a ^b 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 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 0472115952
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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Date of birth	September 1, 1895
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Date of death	July 7, 1936
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