Gus Heinze (1926)
Gus Heinze
Gus Heinze is an American photorealist painter. During the 1950s and 1960s he worked as a freelance commercial artist on Madison Avenue. In 1970 he began his career as a photorealist painter in Bondville, Vermont; many of his paintings from this period depict parts of automobiles and motorcycles in close-up. In 1978 Heinze began exploring more diverse subjects. He increasingly moved toward storefront-window and city scenes, in a style that he calls "abstract realism," where the subject is real but the point of view and composition give the painting an abstract quality. In addition to his urban subjects, Heinze has also painted dilapidated farm equipment such as tractors and water pumps, and old trains and locomotive engines. He has also done series of paintings depicting rocky cliffsides, vineyard grapes, and streams; much of his subject matter is characterized by complex reflections off glass or water, intricate foliage, and deep background blacks with saturated colors in the foreground.
| Date and place of birt: | 1 may 1926, Bremen, Germany |
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| Nationality: | Germany, USA |
| Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Landscape painter, Painter, Portraitist |
| Genre: | Cityscape, Nude art, Landscape painting, Portrait |
| Art style: | Post War Art, Realism, Contemporary realism, Photorealism, Contemporary art |
| Technique: | Acrylic, Acrylic on panel |
