Werner Heldt

Werner Heldt is a German painter born in Berlin on November 17th, 1904 and died in Sant' Angelo with Ischia.

Work

Werner Heldt draws and paints as of the beginning of the year thirty of the windows open on the urban landscape of Berlin. After the war, it takes again this reason and does not cease delivering new alternatives of them. He introduces into the field of view of the objects which, placed directly on the edge of the window constitute sometimes an additional barrier between the interior and outside, but those can also be connected the ones to the others in a kind of plane construction of the image which leads the various elements to be melted. Heldt admires Picasso, Braque and especially Juan Gris, the cubism will lead it during the last period to a great independence of the form compared to reality observed. The Berliner houses and streets will be used to him constantly as topic. In the years 1945 to 1954 it gives up any local color however systematically. The sight of its city which is not any more that ruins, debris, open openings and calcined walls determines the organization of its tables to the way of Still life It transposes the urban landscape in compositions whose construction is at the same time dense and clear. The angles of the frontages of buildings reduced to simplest Bi-dimensionnalité, assembly of geometrical with-dishes of figures and the roundness of indefinable objects agree to a simplifying color where tons hot and tons cold, discrete, imbricate themselves. Its work tends in last works of years 1954 towards the pure abstraction.

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