Renate Heintze: Fazit

Abstract

Complemented by draft sketches and models, the comprehensive pictorial section of the book displays, in large-scale illustrations, the selected works from all work groups of the artist. Many of these jewelry pieces are to be found in public and private collections. Larger collections are hosted by the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle, the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig. Since the opening of the Danner-Rotunda in 2004, Renate Heintze's works can be seen in the permanent exhibition of the Neue Sammlung in Munich as an acquisition of the Danner Foundation. The comprehensive pictorial section is complemented by five brief essays by renowned authors: for Katja Schneider, Renate Heintze is a trailblazer of studio jewelry and her work is exemplary for the self-conception of contemporary jewelry art common today; Christiane Keisch sees in Renate Heintze a "key figure in creating jewelry in the GDR" and describes her independent contribution to the formation of the "Halle style"; the artist Margit Jäschke reminisces about her mentor with gratitude; Wolfgang Lösche emphasizes that, after Dorothea Prühl, with Renate Heintze the second goldsmith from Halle is now already represented within the scope of the Internationale Handwerksmesse in Munich as a "classic of Modernity"; for Petra Hölscher, Renate Heintze is an integral part of the canon of international studio jewelry. In the appendix to the book the reader can find an annotated and illustrated biography, giving condensed information about the artist's life and work. Exhibition: Galerie MARZEE, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (26.03.-06.06.2017).