Margret Hofheinz-Döring

Margret Hofheinz-Döring, 1970

Margret Hofheinz-Döring (May 20, 1910, in Mainz – June 18, 1994, in Bad Boll) was a German painter and graphic artist.

She created about 9,000 paintings, images and portraits, presented in more than 100 exhibitions. Her experimental "structure painting", repainting fabric collages and frames, is a notable technique used by Hofheiz-Döring. She earned nationwide renown with different drawing cycles about Goethe's Faust, using various techniques.[1]

Exhibitions

Hofheinz-Dörings first single exhibition was shown 1931 in the Germania-Saal in Göppingen. From 1965 on, her work has been issued at least once a year. The most important exhibitions have taken place in:

Single exhibitions
Witch and Mephisto to Faust I (1.Serie), mixed technics, 20x42 cm, 1960 (WV-Nr.1184), by Margret Hofheinz-Döring
Participation in larger exhibitions
Collections

Hofheinz-Dörings work is part of the collections in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Schiller-Nationalmuseum Marbach, the gallery of Stuttgart, in the city's art museum Spendhaus in Reutlingen, the collection of the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg and the German Bundeskunstsammlung. Some drawings are open to the public, exhibited in the hospital Göppingen, the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium in Göppingen, in the Kurhaus Freudenstadt, the city hall in Zell unter Aichelberg and the retirement home Bad Boll.

Gallery

References

  1. Osman Durrani, Faust - Icons of Modern Culture Series, Helm Information Ltd, The Banks, Mountfield, East Sussex, 2004, ISBN 1-903206-15-4, p. 309.

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