Heiner Palinkas - Artist Info

About Heiner Palinkas

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    Heiner Palinkas lost his father at an early age and did an apprenticeship in glass and decorative painting in order to support his mother and siblings financially. From 1933 he studied art and was a pupil of Willy Menz at the Kunstgewerbeschule Bremen, but had to break off his studies due to difficulties with the Gestapo.

    He had refused to join the National Socialist student union. In 1935 he was a student with Albert Schiestl-Arding in Worpswede. As a soldier in World War II, he was taken prisoner of war. It was not until 1946 that he continued his studies with Professors Karl Caspar (1946/47) and Arno Bromberger (1967/68) at the Munich Art Academy.

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