On the occasion of the artist’s 100th birthday, Museum Schloss Moyland is presenting the exhibition Erwin Heerich. Sculptures, Drawings, Graphic Series.
Erwin Heerich (1922–2004) stands for an art that combines precision and mathematically sober clarity with openness and playful freedom. He became known in the mid-1960s with small and medium-format sculptures made of cardboard. With these, he established his outstanding and at the same time unique position within the fields of concrete and minimalist art after 1945. Sculptures and reliefs by Heerich can be seen in numerous public spaces, especially in NRW. His architecture at Insel Hombroich, south of Neuss, attracts many visitors.
Works by Erwin Heerich evoke the notion of playfully acting, creative individuals who, thinking and organising, are conscious of themselves and their external circumstances. This notion has lost none of its appeal. Heerich’s search for artistic procedures with which forms of nature and technology can be approached and visually examined through abstraction and geometric analysis has also led to results that still seem contemporary to this day.
The exhibition includes sculptures made of cardboard, wood, plaster, and brass, as well as graphic series and large-format drawings, many of which are being shown for the first time. Also on view are textile collaborative works by Erwin Heerich and his wife Hildegard Heerich.
The exhibition was developed in cooperation with the Insel Hombroich Foundation, the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation – Centre for International Sculpture, and the Museum Kurhaus Kleve – Ewald Mataré Collection.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue (in German and English) published in the publishing house Wienand with numerous illustrations and texts on Erwin Heerich's work by Dr. Felix Billeter, Frank Boehm, Dr. Julia Cwojdzinski and Dr. Alexander Grönert.
Gallery
Erwin Heerich, unbetitelt, (um 1965) Kartonplastik 50 x 50 x 50 cm © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/Maurice Dorren
Erwin Heerich, unbetitelt, (2. Hälfte 1960er Jahre) Kartonplastik 16,5 x 23 x 34 cm © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/Maurice Dorren
Erwin Heerich, unbetitelt, 1972 Collage: Karton in Hell- und Dunkelrot und Tusche auf schwarzem Karton 70,5 x 50,2 cm © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/Maurice Dorren
Erwin Heerich, unbetitelt, undatiert Filz- und Bleistift auf kariertem Papier 21 x 29,5 cm © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/Maurice Dorren
Erwin Heerich, unbetitelt, 1972 Collage: Karton in Hell- und Dunkelrot und Tusche auf schwarzem Karton 70,5 x 50,2 cm © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/Maurice Dorren
Erwin Heerich, unbetitelt, undatiert aus der Mappe: Zeichnungen II, 1967 Klischeedruck auf Bristolkarton nach Tuschfederzeichnung von 1960 63 x 45 cm © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/Maurice Dorren
Erwin Heerich, unbetitelt, undatiert aus der Mappe: Zeichnungen II, 1967 Klischeedruck auf Bristolkarton nach Tuschfederzeichnung von 1960 63 x 45 cm © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/Maurice Dorren
Erwin Heerich, unbetitelt, undatiert Tusche und Bleistift auf kariertem Papier 42 x 29,5 cm Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Archiv Erwin Heerich, HA_P_2412 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Foto: Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Erwin Heerich, unbetitelt, undatiert Kartonschnitt: weißer Karton, aufgelegt auf schwarzem Karton, Tusche 65 x 100 cm Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Archiv Erwin Heerich, HA_P_5062 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Foto: Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Erwin Heerich, unbetitelt, undatiert Bleistift auf kariertem Papier 41,7 x 29,8 cm Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Archiv Erwin Heerich, HA_P_8292 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Foto: Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Erwin Heerich, unbetitelt, (um 1965) Kartonplastik 18 x 48 x 48 cm © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Foto: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland/Maurice Dorren