1. Bettina Heinen-Ayech became known for her colorful landscape views of Algeria.
15 Facts About Bettina Heinen-Ayech
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Bettina Heinen-Ayech's mother Erna Steinhoff-Heinen, was born in Dusseldorf and came from a Westphalian family from the Soest area.
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Bettina Heinen-Ayech Heinen had three siblings, two brothers and a sister; the children grew up in a Solingen, Germany home characterized by art and openness.
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From 1948 to 1954, Bettina Heinen-Ayech went to Solingen's August Dicke Girls' High School, where a teacher recognized and encouraged her talent.
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Bettina Heinen-Ayech received her first artistic training from Bowien, who remained her mentor until his death.
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Paintings by the then 18-year-old Bettina Heinen-Ayech Heinen were included by the Frankfurt gallery owner Hanna Bekker vom Rath in the group exhibition Deutsche Kunst der Gegenwart, in which they were shown alongside artworks by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Kathe Kollwitz on a tour to South America, Africa, and Asia.
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From 1958 Bettina Heinen-Ayech studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen and made the first of several trips to Norway, where she bought a hut at the foot of the Seven Sisters.
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In 1959 and 1962 Bettina Heinen-Ayech Heinen received grants from the Ministry of Culture of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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In 1962 Bettina Heinen-Ayech Heinen made her first trip to North Africa, when she was invited to Cairo by the German Cultural Institute.
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Bettina Heinen-Ayech was invited to the German Cultural Institute in Cairo.
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In Paris, Bettina Heinen-Ayech met her future husband, the Algerian Abdelhamid Ayech, at the Jardin du Luxembourg in 1960, when she was there painting with Bowien.
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In 2004, a second large retrospective of her works was shown in Algiers, the exhibition was under the patronage of the then Algerian Minister of Culture, Khalida Toumi; in 2006, Bettina Heinen-Ayech was again honored by the Algerian government.
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Until 2018, Bettina Heinen-Ayech's paintings had been shown in over 100 solo and numerous group exhibitions in Europe, America, and in Africa.
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Bettinia Bettina Heinen-Ayech died in Munich on June 7,2020, at the age of 82.
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Bettina Heinen-Ayech learned all techniques of painting, but puts her emphasis on watercolor painting.