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Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
About Heinz Henghes
- Heinz Henghes (August 20, 1906 – December 20, 1975) was a British sculptor. Born Gustav Heinrich Clusmann in Hamburg (Germany).
- At the age of 17, Henghes ran away from home to go to the United States.
- In New York City he met a number of artists and writers, and was influenced by Isamu Noguchi.
- In 1932, after 8 years in America, Henghes traveled to France and lived for a short time in Paris where he met Constantin Brâncu?i.
- In 1933 he went on to Rapallo in Italy where he enjoyed the patronage of Ezra Pound, who helped him by providing materials and space to work.
- For the next four years Henghes was based in Italy, holding a number of exhibitions and building his reputation as a sculptor. In 1937, following a further interlude in Paris, Henghes moved to England and set up his studio in London.
- By the time of the outbreak of war he had exhibited in various venues including the Guggenheim Jeune Gallery in Cork Street.
- Still a German national, Henghes was sent on the notorious ship the HMT Dunera to Australia where he was briefly interned in 1940 at Camp Hay.
- In 1941 he returned to England and for much of the war did freelance writing on current affairs for the BBC.
- His talks were broadcast on Radio Newsreel, on the Latin American Service, on the Italian Programme and other services in a variety of languages. One man and group shows increased after the war and, whilst a lecturer in sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London, Henghes participated in the 1951 Festival of Britain.
- During this period he also broadcast on art and became a naturalised British citizen. In 1953 Henghes moved to the Dordogne region of France where he was drawn by the discovery of Lascaux.
- In 1964 when he returned to England to take up the post of Head of Fine Art at Winchester School of Art.
- He retired again to France in 1973.
- He died in Bordeaux in 1975. Henghes is particularly noted for his finely polished white marble torsos, but he moved with the times, always living for the present, and worked in a range of materials and styles.
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