Carle Hessay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carle Hessay

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1911

Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: artist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Carle Hessay (1911–1978) was a German-born Canadian painter.
Starting at age fourteen, he studied at art academies in Dresden and Paris.
He came to Canada, and served as a Canadian soldier in World War II.
After the establishment of peace, Hessay moved to British Columbia, eventually settling in the town of Langley, where he took up art again in the 1950s.
Some of his early paintings were done in the manner of Romantic realism.
The influence of Expressionism soon became significant, with Hessay drawing on both the European and American movements, together with aspects of Emily Carr and the Group of Seven.
He painted landscapes throughout his artistic life, as well as cityscapes, the Spanish Civil War, Biblical prophecy, and conceptions of the far future.
A sizable fraction of his output consisted of abstract pieces.
Over time, Hessay's depictions grew more symbolic, one commentator describing his late work as "brazenly metaphysical and apocalyptic".
He often made his own pigments, and his style is distinguished by his use of colour, especially black.
In 2014, a group of Canadian writers published poems based on his small abstracts.
Hessay was the subject of a 2017 documentary film and art exhibition at the University of Victoria.