Erwin Heerich
Born in 1922 in Kassel Minimal Art German, 20th century
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Curriculum Vitae
1945 – 1950	Attendance at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, sculpture class
1954	Leaves the academy and works as an artist and freelance
1957	Assistent of Ewald Mataré at the summeracademy of Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg
1964	First Solo Exhibition: Gallery van der Grinten, Kranenburg
1966	Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf
1968	documenta 4, Kassel
1969	Appointment to the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, works there as a professor until his resignation in 1988
1972	Kunstverein für die Rheinlande u. Westfalen, Dusseldorf
1973	XII. Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
1974	Landesmuseum Bonn
1974	Member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin
1977	documenta 6, Kassel
1978	Will Grohmann Prize, Berlin
1979	Akademie der Künste, Berlin
since 1980	Planning of the constructions at the Museumsinsel Hombroich near Neuss; numerous plastically works at public spaces
1982	Museum Hasus Esters, Krefeld
1983	Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn
1987	Max-Beckmann-Prize der Stadt Frankfurt/Main
1991	Queens Museum of Art, New York
1992	Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
1995	Anton Stankowski Prize
1996	Museum Wiesbaden: Erwin Heerich, Wiesbaden
1998	Museum im Kulturspeicher: Dialog Skulptur, Tisch und Stuhl, Würzburg
1999 – 2000	Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl: Standpunkt Plastik: Skulptur im Dialog, Marl
2003	Edition Staeck: Erwin Heerich zum Achtzigsten, Heidelberg
2003 – 2004	Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum: SUPPORT 1 - Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung, Graz
2004	The artist dies in Meerbusch-Osterath near Dusseldorf
Exhibitions
2004	Galerie Andreas Brüning: My Father´s Eyes, Dusseldorf Daimler Chrysler Contemporary: Minimalism and After III, Berlin Museum Insel Hombroich: Hombroich Raumortlabor, Neuss
2005 – 2006	Austria Center Vienna: MOTIVA, Vienna
2006	Lentos Kunstmuseum: Ein gemeinsamer Ort, Linz Museum Morsbroich: VIP III. Arena der Abstraktion, Leverkusen
2006 – 2007	Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum: Was ist Plastik?, Duisburg