Galerie Friese
Galerie Friese

Zeichnungen

Klaus Heinrich

148 drawings and 10 sketchbooks from 1955 until 2020

February 1 - February 22, 2020

We sat in the Henry Ford Building, in one of his lecture halls, generations of students, listening to Klaus Heinrich. Heinrich, born in 1927, taught over decades philosophy of religion at the Freie Universität Berlin, which he co-founded as a student, in his city, in which he was born and grew up in, where he still lives today with his wife, Renate Heinrich. We have all learned more from him than is generally credited to a university. He talked about what he wanted, what stimulated his mind – mind is a concept of drive he said – and introduced us to the world of literature, of architecture, philosophy, religions, fine arts and so much more. His lectures on Piranesi, Vermeer, Dürer, on Raphael and Beckmann were, of course, never lectures only on art: they were filled with the richness of relationships in the history of mankind, in which the artists themselves had created their work. His addiction to images, as Klaus Heinrich calls it, beautifully accommodated his desire to describe the smallest detail, in which the whole so often seemed symptomatic to him: in every repetition he elicited a new, as yet unknown twist from the work of art. From this was to be learned. To imitate it, in view of his knowledge, seemed an almost hopeless undertaking, but one that never discouraged, but rather arouse the appetite. Drawing as an art form, which accompanied him throughout his life along with his science-changing life’s work, we are new showing for three weeks in our gallery in Berlin: a tribute to the 92-year-old teacher who made art talk, for many.

Klaus Heinrich, born in Berlin 1927, is professor emeritus of religious studies based on the philosophy of religion. In 1948 he was a student co-founder of the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1952 he received his doctorate with an essay on questioning and the question, and in 1964 he habilitated with an essay on the difficulty of saying no. His writings, originally published by Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, will appear in ça ira-Verlag in 2020. Klaus Heinrich is a member of the PEN center Germany. The German Academy for Language and Poetry awarded him the Sigmund-Freud-Prize for scientific prose in 2002. He has been an honorary member of the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV) since 1998.

 

 

Zeichnungen

Klaus Heinrich

148 drawings and 10 sketchbooks from 1955 until 2020

February 1 - February 22, 2020

We sat in the Henry Ford Building, in one of his lecture halls, generations of students, listening to Klaus Heinrich. Heinrich, born in 1927, taught over decades philosophy of religion at the Freie Universität Berlin, which he co-founded as a student, in his city, in which he was born and grew up in, where he still lives today with his wife, Renate Heinrich. We have all learned more from him than is generally credited to a university. He talked about what he wanted, what stimulated his mind – mind is a concept of drive he said – and introduced us to the world of literature, of architecture, philosophy, religions, fine arts and so much more. His lectures on Piranesi, Vermeer, Dürer, on Raphael and Beckmann were, of course, never lectures only on art: they were filled with the richness of relationships in the history of mankind, in which the artists themselves had created their work. His addiction to images, as Klaus Heinrich calls it, beautifully accommodated his desire to describe the smallest detail, in which the whole so often seemed symptomatic to him: in every repetition he elicited a new, as yet unknown twist from the work of art. From this was to be learned. To imitate it, in view of his knowledge, seemed an almost hopeless undertaking, but one that never discouraged, but rather arouse the appetite. Drawing as an art form, which accompanied him throughout his life along with his science-changing life’s work, we are new showing for three weeks in our gallery in Berlin: a tribute to the 92-year-old teacher who made art talk, for many.

Klaus Heinrich, born in Berlin 1927, is professor emeritus of religious studies based on the philosophy of religion. In 1948 he was a student co-founder of the Freie Universität Berlin. In 1952 he received his doctorate with an essay on questioning and the question, and in 1964 he habilitated with an essay on the difficulty of saying no. His writings, originally published by Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, will appear in ça ira-Verlag in 2020. Klaus Heinrich is a member of the PEN center Germany. The German Academy for Language and Poetry awarded him the Sigmund-Freud-Prize for scientific prose in 2002. He has been an honorary member of the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV) since 1998.