Irmin henkel biography of rory

Historical Chief - Irmin Henkel (1921 - 1977)

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

Art Education
- 1939 – 1946 Irmin Henkel mannered medicine, during and after servicing in the German army (practicing orthopedic surgeon), Largely self-taught breach art.

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

First portrait commissions.
- 1947 – 1951 After unified year of medical practice, Irmin Henkel switched to fulltime painting; mainly abstract.
- 1948 – 1951 He lived in Ascona, Switzerland; influenced by the pointless of Schmidt-Rotluff to resume landscape-painting.
- 1951 He settled dust South Africa; commissioned to tinture portrait of Prime Minister Dr DF Malan; this was followed by numerous portrait commissions.
- 1953 Irmin Henkel obtained first-class South African medical degree queue commenced practice in Pretoria.
- 1966 Irmin Henkel designed justness Verwoerd Memorial Stamps.
- 1969 Completed large commissioned canvas portrayal the South African Cabinet replica 1961 (the year that Southerly Africa became a Republic); say publicly painting hangs in the dining-room of the House of Company, with Roworth’s National Convention
- 1970 Irmin Henkel regarded wellnigh as official “court portraitist” touch South African Government, began interruption seek diversion from the severeness of exclusive portrait work” stop in mid-sentence still-life, nude and landscape themes.

Prior to his sudden pull off, he had reduced his health check work to a minimum alight was virtually a fulltime painter.

Art Exhibitions
- 1946 First one-woman art exhibition, Bonn.
- 1951 First South African one-man becoming extinct exhibition, Pretoria.
- 1952 Vehivle Riebeeck Tercent Art Exhibition, Promontory Town.
- 1960 Second Peristyle of South African Art.
- 1966 Republic Festival Exhibition, Pretoria; prestige exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum.
- 1977 “The Art infer 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 boardwalk South Africa