Bernd Heinrich
Visual Artist (Newport, NSW)

Bernd was born in Weimar, Germany and studied at the Art Academy Augsburg between 1963 and 1967, graduating with Honours and an Art Degree.

He arrived in Sydney in 1970, and returned to Europe for two years, travelling extensively and exhibiting in Munich and Augsburg, Germany. In 1975 he returned to Sydney; and studied etching at the Willoughby Art Centre. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1974.

Bernd painted Garry McDonald for the Archibald Prize in 1978 and Thomas Kenneally for the Archibald Prize in 1990. His portrait of Thomas Keneally now resides in the National Portrait Gallery Canberra, and his work is held in numerous private collections in Australia, America, England and Germany.

He has exhibited many times in the Wynne Prize since 1976, and in the Dobell Prize 2003 with a drawing of Peter Pinson. In Germany he exhibited in 1983 and 1984 in the Grosse Kunst Ausstellung in Munich. Bernd is aember of the AWI since 1984, and belongs to the Peninsula Art Society in Sydney.

Bernd's works are both highly physical, in the complex and rigorous nature of their construction, and highly esoteric. The result is a body of work which makes a well grounded and stimulating contribution to both "Australian Landscape" as an art historical genre, and to "Contemporary Landscape" as a vital element of current international artistic practice.

Bibliography: Nevill Drury, New Art Four, Craftsman House, 1990; Julian Fagan, Uncommon Australian, Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery.

Bernd lives and works on nothern beaches in Sydney.

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