Heinz Koppel

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The Berlin-born artist Heinz Koppel was one of a number of German-Jewish artists who, having fled Germany for Great Britain in the 1930s, brought with them the “continental” Expressionist and Surrealist-oriented tendencies of the 1920s and thereby exerted a significant influence on the British art scene.

New: Every Sunday, from 15th November until 13th December 2009, the Centrum Judaicum is offering a guided tour - "Who is Heinz Koppel?" - with Anna Canby Monk, head of the Heinz Koppel exhibitions office. The tour is in German. English-language tours can be booked in advance. For more information or to make a booking please contact: Koppel-exh@centrumjudaicum.de

Now for the first time an exhibition dedicated to the work of this near-forgotten artist is being held in Berlin. From the mid-1940s onwards Heinz Koppel worked for the most part as an art teacher for adults and children in Dowlais, just outside the largely run-down recession-hit industrial town of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. The expressive works produced in those years form the heart of the exhibition.

A comprehensive catalogue traces the biography of the painter and presents a chronology of the artist’s works as well as contemporary art historical responses by the German and British art historians Ingeborg Ruthe and David Fraser Jenkins respectively.

Heinz Koppel. Ein Künstler zwischen Berlin und Wales
Chana Schütz & Hermann Simon
Publisher: verlag für berlin-brandenburg
ISBN 978-3-86650-583-4
€16.90