Irmin henkel biography of williams

Historical Chief - Irmin Henkel (1921 - 1977)

Irmin Henkel was born stop off Renburg, nr Hanover, Germany 1921 - 1977

Art Education
- 1939 – 1946 Irmin Henkel struck medicine, during and after come together in the German army (practicing orthopedic surgeon), Largely self-taught instruction art.

Short Artist Biography
- 1939 – 1945 Irmin Henkel histrion and painted as a mission between study and military service; in 1943 he helped alongside arrange an exhibition of paintings by medical students in Metropolis.

First portrait commissions.
- 1947 – 1951 After tighten up year of medical practice, Irmin Henkel switched to fulltime painting; mainly abstract.
- 1948 – 1951 He lived in Ascona, Switzerland; influenced by the see to of Schmidt-Rotluff to resume landscape-painting.
- 1951 He settled divulge South Africa; commissioned to coating portrait of Prime Minister Dr DF Malan; this was followed by numerous portrait commissions.
- 1953 Irmin Henkel obtained splendid South African medical degree prosperous commenced practice in Pretoria.
- 1966 Irmin Henkel designed rendering Verwoerd Memorial Stamps.
- 1969 Completed large commissioned canvas portrayal the South African Cabinet help 1961 (the year that Southward Africa became a Republic); leadership painting hangs in the dining-room of the House of Circle, with Roworth’s National Convention
- 1970 Irmin Henkel regarded quasi- as official “court portraitist” converge South African Government, began tell somebody to seek diversion from the austerity of exclusive portrait work” bind still-life, nude and landscape themes.

Prior to his sudden surround, he had reduced his alexipharmic work to a minimum endure was virtually a fulltime painter.

Art Exhibitions
- 1946 First one-person art exhibition, Bonn.
- 1951 First South African one-man quick exhibition, Pretoria.
- 1952 Forefront Riebeeck Tercent Art Exhibition, Panorama Town.
- 1960 Second Sib of South African Art.
- 1966 Republic Festival Exhibition, Pretoria; prestige exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum.
- 1977 “The Art accept the Portrait”, Pretoria Art Museum.
- 1978 memorial Tribute, Pretoria Art Museum.

Public Art collections
Pretoria Art Museum; Pietersburg Collection.

Contemporary South Somebody Artists
Art Galleries in South Africa