Jochen Hein
Jochen Hein
Nothing less than the sublimity of nature is the theme addressed by Jochen Hein, who was born in Husum in 1960. “Man’s wish to converse with something nobler than himself initiates my paintings and is the driving force of my work,” says Hein, describing his paintings of local landscapes. These studies of nature are not anachronistic but timeless. Their precision and brilliance bring to mind the German romantics, their atmospheric density evokes the essence of a moment. Some of his paintings are scarcely larger than an exercise book, others cover a whole wall in the museum. Whatever their size, Hein’s paintings reveal the power, vastness and mysteriousness of nature, which men can touch and shape, but which copes perfectly without them. Jochen Hein’s paintings reveal a depth and variety in detail and structure in a quality superior to any technical reproduction. Hein’s motifs are collective archetypes – like trees, grass or the sea - which he paints, using an elaborate technique, applying delicate layers of paint to solid, well-nigh sculptured canvases. “The tension between the spatial effect of the paintings from a distance and their plain material texture from up close reflects the tension between expectation and reality.”
Hein’s paintings are sparkling art works with a huge picturesque appeal as well as windows onto an apparently familiar yet barely fathomable nature.
- Dr. Christoph Heinrich
„You can gaze out there for hours – but the sea never looks back!“
Jochen Hein
Jochen Hein is born in Husum, Germany in 1960. He lives and works in Hamburg.
1987 diploma at the Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft, Hamburg
EXHIBITIONS
2025Bright Days Ahead, Galerie Commeter, Hamburg
Silence, Die Drostei, Pinneberg
Beyond the visible, MKdW, Alkersum/ Föhr
2024Caspar David Friedrich - Art for a new time, Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Zeegezichten - Museum Singer Laren, Laren, Netherlands
Zwischen Sturm und Stille, das MKdW zu Gast im internationalen Maritimen Museum, Hamburg
Jochen Hein - Günter Zachariasen - Getrennte Nähe, Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll
Wasserstoff # alles im Fluss, Kunst- und Kulturzentrum MEMU, Essing
Geflutet, Galerie der Stiftung BC - pro arte, Biberach
2023Bright Days Ahead, Galerie Commeter, Hamburg
Highlights International Art Fair, Galerie Commeter, Munich
Who is afraid of BLUE, Kunstverein Schwimmhalle Schloss Plön
Eisige Visionen, a tribute to Caspar David Friedrich, Barlach Halle K, Hamburg
Caspar David Friedrich - Art for a new time, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2022Art Cologne, Galerie Commeter, Cologne
90 ° Süd, Solo-Show, Galerie Commeter, Hamburg
"Neue Schätze - von Max Liebermann bis Jochen Hein", Museum Kunst der Westküste (MKDW), Föhr
2021„Bright days ahead“, Galerie Commeter
Cologne Fine Art & Design, Galerie Commeter
HIGHLIGHTS International Art Fair Munich, Galerie Commeter
„Neue Schätze - von Max Liebermann bis Jochen Hein“, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr
Munich Highlights International Art Fair, Galerie Commeter, München
2020„Bright days ahead“, Galerie Commeter;
Cologne Fine Art & Design, Galerie Commeter;
„Antarctica“, Galerie Commeter;
book presentation "Reflexion" (Hatje Cantz), Galerie Commeter
2019„Bright days ahead“, Galerie Commeter;
Cologne Fine Art, Galerie Commeter
2018„Reflections“, Galerie Commeter;
Cologne Fine Art, Galerie Commeter;
“Die Zeit ist hin…”, Nordfriesland Museum. Nissenhaus Husum;
“Europa und das Meer”, group show, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin;
solo exhibition, Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld;
“Im Bann der Nordsee”, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen
2017Cologne Fine Art, Galerie Commeter;
“Über die Tiefe”, Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen;
2016“Jenseits der Zeit – Jochen Hein und die Sammlung MKdW”, Föhr;
“Über die Tiefe”, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr;
Volta New York;
Cologne Fine Art, Galerie Commeter
2015Gruppenausstellung “Open Spaces – Landschaften”, Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen;
Kunstmessen: Untited Miami, Positions Berlin, art karlsruhe, Galerie Thomas Fuchs;
Cologne Fine Art, Galerie Commeter und Galerie Werkhallen, Köln;
“blau”, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart
2014Cologne Fine Art, Galerie Commeter und Galerie Werkhallen;
“Die Zeit anhalten”, Galerie Commeter, Hamburg;
“Jochen Hein – Malerei”, Werkhallen, Oberwinter/Remagen;
“Die Natur des Menschen”, Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg
2013“Landschaft · Portrait”, Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, Österreich;
“Die Natur des Menschen”, Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz
2012“Schaubeck Sessions”, Felix Jud, Kunsthandel, Hamburg;
“Wasser”, White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg
2010“Park im Zwielicht”, Felix Jud, Kunsthandel, Hamburg
2009“Von Schöpfung und Vergänglichkeit”, Kulturkirche St. Johannis, Hamburg
2008“Weltempfänger – 10 Jahre Galerie der Gegenwart”, Hamburger Kunsthalle
2007“Junge Freunde”, mit Sotheby’s Auktion, Hamburger Kunsthalle
2003“Die zweite Natur”, mit Sotheby's Auktion, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Blue / Green
“Reflection” 2016, acrylic on cotton, 39 3/8 × 55 1/8 inch, JH/M 0373
“Reflection” 2023, acrylic on cotton, 15 3/4 × 19 3/4 inch, JH/M 0369
“Brandung” 2023, acrylic on cotton, 23 2/3 x 31 1/2 in, JH/M 358
“expecting rain” 2024, acrylic on cotton, 11 3/4 × 15 3/4 inch, JH/M 363
Sold
“Himmel” 2023, acrylic on cotton, 27 1/2 x 39 1/3 in, JH/M 357
Sold
“Avenue” 2024, acrylic on cotton, 55 1/8 × 39 3/8 inch, JH/M 364
“Park” 2024, acrylic on cotton, JH/M 365, JH/M 365
Jochen Hein “Reflexion”, signed book
