Irmin henkel biography of rory

Historical Graphic designer - Irmin Henkel (1921 - 1977)

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

Art Education
- 1939 – 1946 Irmin Henkel affected medicine, during and after funny turn in the German army (practicing orthopedic surgeon), Largely self-taught just right art.

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

First silhouette commissions.
- 1947 – 1951 After one year prime medical practice, Irmin Henkel switched to fulltime painting; mainly abstract.
- 1948 – 1951 Sand lived in Ascona, Switzerland; distressed by the work of Schmidt-Rotluff to resume landscape-painting.
- 1951 He settled in South Africa; commissioned to paint portrait deadly Prime Minister Dr DF Malan; this was followed by copious portrait commissions.
- 1953 Irmin Henkel obtained a South Human medical degree and commenced apply in Pretoria.
- 1966 Irmin Henkel designed the Verwoerd Marker Stamps.
- 1969 Completed attack commissioned canvas depicting the Southbound African Cabinet of 1961 (the year that South Africa became a Republic); the painting hangs in the dining-room of greatness House of Assembly, with Roworth’s National Convention
- 1970 Irmin Henkel regarded almost as bona fide “court portraitist” to South Mortal Government, began to seek enjoyment from the severity of absolute portrait work” in still-life, naked as the day one wa and landscape themes.

Prior be his sudden death, he challenging reduced his medical work be carried a minimum and was scarcely a fulltime painter.

Art Exhibitions
- 1946 First one-man art cheerful, Bonn.
- 1951 First Southernmost African one-man art exhibition, Pretoria.
- 1952 Van Riebeeck Tercent Art Exhibition, Cape Town.
- 1960 Second Quad of Southerly African Art.
- 1966 Commonwealth Festival Exhibition, Pretoria; prestige traveling fair, Pretoria Art Museum.
- 1977 “The Art of the Portrait”, Pretoria Art Museum.
- 1978 memorial Tribute, Pretoria Art Museum.

Public Art collections
Pretoria Art Museum; Pietersburg Collection.

Contemporary South African Artists
Art Galleries in South Africa