Working in a museum and occasionally collecting work for the national collection I realise just how difficult it is to collect a cohesive and such an important group of works and thanks from all of us need to go to Barrie Maskell for such an important collection. I know just how difficult it must have been to assemble this group of works: I have been chasing some of these artists myself for a number of years and haven't managed to get work half as good as some of these works you see here today.
- Nicholas Thornton Head of modern and contemporary art Amguedda Cymru-National Museum Wales Cardiff
Heinz Koppel (1919 - 1980)
Biography
Influenced by the German Expressionist movement, Koppel's growing reputation was such that he was given the opportunity to exhibit at Jack Bilbo's prestigious Modern Art Gallery of London, together with artists Jankel Adler, Oskar Kokoschka and Kurt Schwitters.
In 1956 he co-founded the 56 Group and two years later the gallery owner Helen Lessore hosted the first of Koppel's three one person shows at her Beaux Arts Gallery in London.
There followed a series of lectureships at Camberwell School of Art, Hornsey College of Art and Liverpool College of Art. He exhibited many times, including at the 56 Group-dominated show in Washington DC in 1965 and the 56 Group Wales show in Dublin in 1968.
In 1969 he and his artist wife Renate 'Pip' Koppel bought a farmhouse in Cwmerfyn, near Aberystwyth and by 1974 they and their family were to live there permanently. Heinz Koppel died on 1 December 1980.
The works of Heinz Koppel can be found in the following collections:-
Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales, Cardiff; Ben Uri Gallery, London; Bodelwyddan Castle Trust, Denbighshire; Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Merthyr Tydfil; Koppel Family Collection; Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport; Tate, London; other public and private collections.
Influenced by the German Expressionist movement, Koppel's growing reputation was such that he was given the opportunity to exhibit at Jack Bilbo's prestigious Modern Art Gallery of London, together with artists Jankel Adler, Oskar Kokoschka and Kurt Schwitters.
In 1956 he co-founded the 56 Group and two years later the gallery owner Helen Lessore hosted the first of Koppel's three one person shows at her Beaux Arts Gallery in London.
There followed a series of lectureships at Camberwell School of Art, Hornsey College of Art and Liverpool College of Art. He exhibited many times, including at the 56 Group-dominated show in Washington DC in 1965 and the 56 Group Wales show in Dublin in 1968.
In 1969 he and his artist wife Renate 'Pip' Koppel bought a farmhouse in Cwmerfyn, near Aberystwyth and by 1974 they and their family were to live there permanently. Heinz Koppel died on 1 December 1980.
The works of Heinz Koppel can be found in the following collections:-
Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales, Cardiff; Ben Uri Gallery, London; Bodelwyddan Castle Trust, Denbighshire; Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Merthyr Tydfil; Koppel Family Collection; Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport; Tate, London; other public and private collections.
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