Prof. Heinz Emigholz

Artist, Berlin and HdK Berlin

The basis of Make up, 1974 - 1999, View of the Installation at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Biography: Born 1948 near Bremen. Education for drawing, studies at Hamburg. Since 1973 freelance film maker, artist, cameraman, actor, author, publisher and producer in Germany and the United States. Many exhibitions, retrospectives, lectures and publications. Since 1974 working on the encylopedic drawing series The basis of Make-up. 1978 founding of the production company Pym Films. Since 1993 professor for experimental film directing at the college of arts Berlin. Publikations (selection): Krieg der Augen, Kreuz der Sinne and Seit Freud gesagt hat, der Künstler heile seine Neurosen selbst, heilen Künstler ihre Neurosen selbst; Die Basis des Make Up (I) und (II), Der Begnadete Meier and Kleine Enzyklopädie der Photographie forthcoming (Oktober 2001) books are Normalsatz – Siebzehn Filme and Das schwarze Schamquadrat. Published films (selection): 1979-85 Die Basis des Make-Up (84 min.); 1974-87 Die Wiese der Sachen (88 min.); 1986-90 Der Zynische Körper (89 min.); 1993-2000 Sullivans Banken (38 min.); 1983–2000 The Basis of Make Up II (48 min.); 1995-2000 Maillarts Brücken (24 min.); 1988-2001 Miscellanea I (20 min.); 1988-2001 Miscellanea II (19 min.)   Events with Prof. Heinz Emigholz