Heinrich Brocksieper was a German photographer, experimental filmmaker and painter who was educated at the Bauhaus design school.
11 Facts About Heinrich Brocksieper
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Heinrich Brocksieper's grandfather was a metalsmith who ran a smithery, his father was a self-employed master-painter.
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In 1919 he was inspired by the "Hagener Impuls" of Karl Ernst Osthaus, who showed the first big exhibition of Lyonel Feininger in Hagen's Museum Folkwang, and supported by his teacher Max Austermann, Heinrich Brocksieper took up studies at the newly founded Bauhaus in Weimar, starting the winter semester of 1919.
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Heinrich Brocksieper participated in exhibitions for the first time in 1920; the development of the illness he caught in the war forced him to interrupt his studies and leave for recuperation in Merano.
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Heinrich Brocksieper spent the years 1923 and 1924 traveling with a friend, Hugo Isenberg, in southern Germany, Austria and Italy.
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In 1924 Heinrich Brocksieper left for another recuperation stay in Merano.
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Heinrich Brocksieper established a photo and film studio and created "perpelleristische Filme" and cartoons on 35mm film, which he processes himself.
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In 1938 he married Annemarie Heinrich Brocksieper, their first son Utz was born in 1939, followed by their son Klaus born in 1940.
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Heinrich Brocksieper discovered the "perspective of close objects" utilizing "tactile viewing", and henceforth based all his paintings on those concepts.
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Heinrich Brocksieper resumed contact to his friends from the Bauhaus, wrote to Maria Rasch and to Gustavo Keller-Ruiz in Chile.
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In 1954 Heinrich Brocksieper made his first post-war trip to Weimar where he met old friends from the Bauhaus, including Harry Scheibe and Martin Pohle.