Vita

1911
Born on 16 October in Kaiserslautern as the son of Max Steiner-Kaiser, then director of the Kaiserlslautern municipal theatre. His father is Jewish, his mother Christian.

1915 - 1920
Zurich, where his father sets up a Viennese operetta ensemble

1922 - 1926
Attends secondary school in Hamburg

1926
Enrols at the Altona School of Arts and Crafts. Exhibits his first painting at the Altona Secession.

1927 - 1929
Apprenticeship as a stage painter at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, and at the Städtische Oper Berlin

1929 - 1932
Stage painter at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich

1932/33
Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Karl Caspar and took part in the Abendakt, which was directed by Georg Schrimpf

1934 - 1938
lives as a freelance painter in Düsseldorf. Study trips to Paris, Colmar, Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Zurich

1938
Endangered as a half-Jew in Germany, Steiner moves to Florence. Studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence under Felice Carena and Mario Bacchelli. Bacchelli organises an exhibition for Steiner at the Circolo dei corsi per stranieri at the beginning of 1940.

seit 1939
Steiner lives in the Pensione Bandini, Florence, where he comes into friendly contact with Curt Craemer, Karli Sohn-Rethel, Rudolf Levy, Eduard Bargheer and Heinz Battke. Rudolf Levy, a pupil of Matisse, who came to Florence at the end of 1940, had a great influence on Steiner.

1946
Honoured with the international art prize "La Colomba", Venice. The Venetian art dealer Carlo Cardazzi takes Steiner under contract.

1948
Move to Venice.

1949
In November 1949, solo exhibition at Cardazzi's Galerie del Cavallino. He meets Max Peiffer-Watenpuhl. The contract with Cardazzi is not renewed. Steiner returns to Florence.

1950
Marries Giuliana Toti in Florence. Returns to Germany. He lives and works as an art teacher at the Hermann-Lietz-Schule Schloss Buchenau (near Bad Hersfeld)

1959 - 1974
Moves to Frankfurt a. M. and teaches at the Anna-Schmidt-Schule, a public school, until his retirement in 1974

1966
Construction of the summer house in Lerici on the Gulf of La Spezia, where he spends the summer months.

1974
Returns to Italy. Lives and works in Rome and Lerici since then

2005
Stopped painting due to an eye condition

2009
Heinrich Steiner dies in Rome in February.

Awards

1946
"Premio internazionale d'arte La Colomba, Ausländerpreis", Venedig,

1953
"Pfalzpreis Malerei", Bezirksverband Pfalz,

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1939
Erste Ausstellung in Florenz, Florenz, Italy

1941
Galerie Il Ponte in Florenz, Florenz, Italy

1946
Galerie Il Cenacolo, Florenz, Italy

1949
"Henri Steiner", Galleria del Cavallino, Venedig, Italy

1954
"Heinrich Steiner: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Graphik", Pfälzische Landesgewerbeanstalt (heute Pfalzgalerie), Kaiserslautern, Germany

1956
Landeskunstschule Mainz, Mainz, Germany

1958
Galerie Prestel, Frankfurt a.M.,

1961
"Heinrich Steiner", Galerie Prestel, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

1964
Galerie Proposte, Florenz, Italy

1965
Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Becker vom Rath, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
1965
Società di Belle Arti, Genua, Italy

1967
Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

1968
Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Köln, Germany

1974
Galerie Seifert-Binder, München, Germany

1976
Galerie Schneider, Rom, Italy

1978
Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

1979
Goethe Institut, Triest, Italy

1981
Goethe Institut, Padua, Italy

1983
Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
1983
Galerie "l'attico-esse arte", Rom, Italy

1986
Galerie Oro del Tempo, Rom, Italy

1987
Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1988
Galleria Arte Cortina, Rom, Italy

1991
Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany

1992
Galerie Brigitte Wagner, Bonn, Germany

2000
Galerie del Monte, Forio / Ischia, Italy

2001
Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany

2006
Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany

2011
"Heinrich Steiner", Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany

2012
Kunstverein Wasserschloss Bad Rappenau, Bad Rappenau, Germany

2015
"Der Maler Heinrich Steiner", Stadtmuseum Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Group exhibitions (selection)

1952
"Pfälzische Sezession", Historisches Museum, Speyer,

1959
Frankfurter Sezession, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1995
"Refugio Precario: Zuflucht auf Widerruf. Deutsche Künstler und Wissenschaftler in Italien 1933-45", Palazzo della Ragione, Mailand; Akademie der Künste, Berlin,