Carl Heidenreich Foundation

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On view: Landscape and Abstraction in Watercolor
Aug 21, 2023
On view: Landscape and Abstraction in Watercolor
Aug 21, 2023

Carl Heidenreich’s painting Untitled (Mexico Series) , 1962, is currently on view in an exhibition at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University.

Aug 21, 2023
Press Release: Carl/Karl
Jul 6, 2023
Press Release: Carl/Karl
Jul 6, 2023

Click here for the press release and press pack associated with Carl/Karl: Three Takes on Heidenreich.

Jul 6, 2023
Carl/Karl: Three Takes on Heidenreich
Jun 10, 2023
Carl/Karl: Three Takes on Heidenreich
Jun 10, 2023

The Carl Heidenreich Foundation is thrilled to announce the publication of Carl/Karl: Three Takes on Heidenreich, available now in hardcover.

Jun 10, 2023
New works in the catalogue raisonné
Jun 6, 2023
New works in the catalogue raisonné
Jun 6, 2023

We invite you to experience newly catalogued paintings and works on paper by Carl Heidenreich.

Jun 6, 2023
Upcoming Exhibition: Landscape and Abstraction in Watercolor
May 9, 2023
Upcoming Exhibition: Landscape and Abstraction in Watercolor
May 9, 2023

The Heidenreich Foundation is pleased to announce the inclusion of Carl Heidenreich’s painting Untitled (Mexico Series) in an upcoming exhibition at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University.

May 9, 2023
Fifty-seven years after Heidenreich
Dec 31, 2022
Fifty-seven years after Heidenreich
Dec 31, 2022

Reflecting on the past year, 2022 has provided a momentous period for the Carl Heidenreich Foundation, ushering in new acquisitions and fresh scholarly perspectives while also bringing sad news of the passing of two important advocates for Heidenreich’s work, Emanuel Wolf and Monica Smith.

Dec 31, 2022
Book and lecture: Voluntarios por la Revolución by Andy Durgan
Dec 5, 2022
Book and lecture: Voluntarios por la Revolución by Andy Durgan
Dec 5, 2022

Carl Heidenreich’s participation in the POUM during the Spanish Civil War is highlighted in Andy Durgan’s recently-published book Voluntarios por la Revolución: La Milicia Internacional del POUM en la Guerra Civil Española (Barcelona: Laertes S.L. de Ediciones, 2022).

Dec 5, 2022
Monica Smith in memoriam
Oct 20, 2022
Monica Smith in memoriam
Oct 20, 2022

We are saddened to share news of the death of Carl Heidenreich’s daughter Monica Smith on August 13, 2022.

Oct 20, 2022
Announcement: Forthcoming Publication from the Carl Heidenreich Foundation
Sep 26, 2022
Announcement: Forthcoming Publication from the Carl Heidenreich Foundation
Sep 26, 2022

The Carl Heidenreich Foundation is thrilled to announce the upcoming publication of a new resource for scholars and the public titled Karl/Carl: Three Takes on Heidenreich. The publication advances the existing scholarship on Heidenreich’s work by examining his late works of the 1950s–60s through the lens of his years in exile and his immigration to the United States.

Sep 26, 2022
Emanuel Wolf in memoriam
Jun 1, 2022
Emanuel Wolf in memoriam
Jun 1, 2022

It is with sadness that the Carl Heidenreich Foundation announces Emanuel L. Wolf's death in February of this year.

Jun 1, 2022
Sneak Peek: New scholarship focuses on reinterpreting Carl Heidenreich's work
Feb 14, 2022
Sneak Peek: New scholarship focuses on reinterpreting Carl Heidenreich's work
Feb 14, 2022

Over the past year, the Carl Heidenreich Foundation has been in touch with writers and emerging voices in the field of art history and visual culture studies, commissioning some while also reflecting on our own experiences of discovering Heidenreich. Here, we offer a sneak peak of the work-in-progress to come.

Feb 14, 2022
Carl Heidenreich works acquired by the Eskenazi Museum of Art
Feb 8, 2022
Carl Heidenreich works acquired by the Eskenazi Museum of Art
Feb 8, 2022

The Carl Heidenreich Foundation is proud to announce that one painting and two works on paper by Carl Heidenreich will be included in the collection of the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University.

Feb 8, 2022
New works enter the catalogue
Jan 10, 2022
New works enter the catalogue
Jan 10, 2022

The Carl Heidenreich Foundation is thrilled to announce a selection of paintings and works-on-paper newly included in the catalogue raisonné, which were shared with the Foundation over the past year.

Jan 10, 2022
Work in focus: Untitled gouache painting on paper is now included in the Carl Heidenreich catalogue raisonné
Oct 5, 2021
Work in focus: Untitled gouache painting on paper is now included in the Carl Heidenreich catalogue raisonné
Oct 5, 2021

The Carl Heidenreich Foundation is pleased to share the recent inclusion of Untitled (cityscape) from the collection of Mark Callister in the Carl Heidenreich catalogue raisonné.

Oct 5, 2021
We enter, fleeing: on Rosalind Krauss and horizontality
Aug 15, 2021
We enter, fleeing: on Rosalind Krauss and horizontality
Aug 15, 2021

In arguing against the “dictatorial perpendicular” and the commercialization of writing, Benjamin enacts a future argument made by the art critic Rosalind Krauss on the vertical and horizontal. In Heidenreich’s later work and particularly with his Alaska series, his paintings convey this horizontality: they are no longer the vertical, bounded plane of small apartment windows, vision scratched out or covered over but instead spread organically, open up fissures, offer limitless territories, and propel the viewer into the infinity of horizontal space.

Aug 15, 2021
We enter, fleeing: on the dictatorial perpendicular
May 3, 2021
We enter, fleeing: on the dictatorial perpendicular
May 3, 2021

We enter, fleeing is a series of essays by Carl Heidenreich Foundation director Christopher Squier considering postwar painting and abstraction in the context of diaspora, exile, and migration. Part two of the series looks at the use of text in Heidenreich's paintings in the context of Benjamin's notion of the "dictatorial perpendicular." Although it occurs sparingly throughout his body of work, text is often used to signal political urgency, a rupture in everyday life, or violent and disorienting experiences.

May 3, 2021
We enter, fleeing: Walter Benjamin on the conflict of exile
Mar 23, 2021
We enter, fleeing: Walter Benjamin on the conflict of exile
Mar 23, 2021

We enter, fleeing is a series of essays and blog entries by Carl Heidenreich Foundation director Christopher Squier drawing inspiration from the work of the literary critic Walter Benjamin alongside discourses in visual culture and contemporary art. The series considers postwar painting and abstraction in the context of diaspora, exile, and migration.

Mar 23, 2021
Announcing recent additions to the Carl Heidenreich catalogue raisonnè
Feb 15, 2021
Announcing recent additions to the Carl Heidenreich catalogue raisonnè
Feb 15, 2021

The Carl Heidenreich Foundation is thrilled to update our catalogue raisonné with previously unrecorded paintings by the German American exile artist from two additional collections.

Feb 15, 2021
Christopher Squier named Executive Director of the Carl Heidenreich Foundation
Sep 24, 2020
Christopher Squier named Executive Director of the Carl Heidenreich Foundation
Sep 24, 2020

The Carl Heidenreich Foundation is pleased to name Christopher Squier as Executive Director.

Sep 24, 2020
Recent acquisition: Girl in Rumanian Blouse
Feb 17, 2020
Recent acquisition: Girl in Rumanian Blouse
Feb 17, 2020

The Carl Heidenreich Foundation is pleased to share the recent acquisition of Heidenreich’s Girl in Rumanian Blouse, purchased from the painter’s grandson Howard Lortz.

Feb 17, 2020
Carl Heidenreich Foundation launches catalogue raisonné
Sep 30, 2019
Carl Heidenreich Foundation launches catalogue raisonné
Sep 30, 2019

Over the past year, the Carl Heidenreich Foundation has developed a catalogue raisonné of the artist’s known works in all media.

Sep 30, 2019
Abstraction and Distance: New Paintings in the Carl Heidenreich Foundation Collection
Feb 5, 2019
Abstraction and Distance: New Paintings in the Carl Heidenreich Foundation Collection
Feb 5, 2019

A reflection on six works, which demonstrate the artist’s shifting focus from representation to the language of abstraction after immigrating to New York after WWII.

Feb 5, 2019
Heidenreich in Hollywood: Tracing the path of the artist's estate
Nov 1, 2017
Heidenreich in Hollywood: Tracing the path of the artist's estate
Nov 1, 2017

This conversation is part of a series of interviews with families and individuals who collected and preserved the legacy of painter Carl Heidenreich. On October 5, 2017 KunstWorks' Alla Efimova interviewed Richard Buxbaum about how he reconnected with Emanuel Wolf, the largest collector of Heidenreich's art, making it possible to appreciate the full extent of the artist's legacy.

Nov 1, 2017
Carl Heidenreich's Response to the Death of John F. Kennedy: An Interview with Emanuel Wolf
Oct 27, 2017
Carl Heidenreich's Response to the Death of John F. Kennedy: An Interview with Emanuel Wolf
Oct 27, 2017

On August 31, Alla Efimova interviewed Emanuel Wolf about his memories of the German exile artist Carl Heidenreich.

Oct 27, 2017
Carl Heidenreich Foundation acquires three pre-war German paintings
Oct 6, 2017
Carl Heidenreich Foundation acquires three pre-war German paintings
Oct 6, 2017

The Carl Heidenreich Foundation recently acquired three Carl Heidenreich oil paintings from Lothar Brandt of Berlin. The oil paintings, Portrait of Lia (c. 1930), Street Encounter (1932), and Self-Portrait (1926) are rare examples of Heidenreich's pre-war painting, of which very few remain.

Oct 6, 2017
Carl Heidenreich and the Circle of Hannah Arendt: an Interview with Gerhard and Regina Casper
Sep 22, 2017
Carl Heidenreich and the Circle of Hannah Arendt: an Interview with Gerhard and Regina Casper
Sep 22, 2017

This conversation is part of a series of interviews with families and individuals who collected and preserved the legacy of Carl Heidenreich for the past half-century. On July 12, Alla Efimova interviewed Gerhard and Regina about their dedication to the painter.

Sep 22, 2017
Carl Heidenreich Foundation Launch Celebration at BAMPFA
Dec 20, 2016
Carl Heidenreich Foundation Launch Celebration at BAMPFA
Dec 20, 2016

On November 20, the launch of the Carl Heidenreich Foundation was celebrated at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive’s Cafe Babette.

Dec 20, 2016
Three Generations Champion Rebel Painter Carl Heidenreich
Oct 20, 2016
Three Generations Champion Rebel Painter Carl Heidenreich
Oct 20, 2016

For half a century, the Buxbaum family cared for the artistic legacy of the German-American artist Carl Heidenreich.

Oct 20, 2016
Launch Event at the Berkeley Art Museum
Oct 7, 2016
Launch Event at the Berkeley Art Museum
Oct 7, 2016

The Carl Heidenreich Foundation is pleased to announce the first launch event on November 20 at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive. BAMPFA holds a number of significant works by Heidenreich in its collection, thanks to the generous gifts of Richard M. Buxbaum. In 2004, the museum presented the exhibition Carl Heidenreich and Hans Hofmann in Postwar New York.

Oct 7, 2016
Dr. Alla Efimova named Executive Director of CHF
Jul 7, 2016
Dr. Alla Efimova named Executive Director of CHF
Jul 7, 2016

The Foundation is pleased to name Dr. Alla Efimova, Principal of Berkeley-based KunstWorks, as Executive Director.

Jul 7, 2016

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