About The Artist

Mob: 00 64 21 02716811 gabriel-heimler@gmx.de www.gabriel-heimler.de Gabriel Heimler is an artist of international renown, was born in Paris. He completed his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1988. He started exhibiting at the Grand Palais while studying there. He was selected by Magritte’s wife, Mirabelle d’Or, for the Salon de Figuration Critique. From this, the doors to the Drouot Auction House were opened to him and Heimler sold his first paintings. Heimler has spent the last twenty years living and painting in Berlin. His fame started in 1989 with his ‘Wall Jumper‘ mural painted on the Berlin Wall. The mural is part of the East Side Gallery, the second most visited historical monument in Berlin with 700.000 visitors per year. Heimler sold through Sotheby's in New York and at galleries in Berlin, Paris, Frankfurt and Brussels amongst many others. He also showed his creativity while working as an art curator throughout Europe. Heimler’s work is inspired by a cocktail of German expressionism, cubist perspectives, pop-art and cartoon strips and shows a love for detail. His paintings are flamboyant, colorful, packed with interesting concrete narrative and conceptual issues based on literary, biblical, historical and art history topics. Heimler looks to underline a deep human individuality and to show emotions and feelings. According to Manfred Giesler, a German art critic, “everything Heimler paints is real and unreal – even surreal – at the same time and shown with much love for the people and objects he depicts. Heimler is one of the very few painters who definitely have their own and unique style, known as ‘the Heimler‘s world’. This world appears to be a real one”. Heimler’s artworks can be seen in private and public collections in France, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, New Zealand, Australia and the USA. In his 20 years career Heimler sold about 2000 paintings. Since 2010 Heimler has transported his world to New Zealand. He works with his partner Anna Proc. They painted murals ’The Mover’ and ’The Copy of Rousseau’ at the Museum Hotel opposite Te Papa National Museum as well as ’The Open Sea Path’ at Upper Cuba Street and ’The Arc de Triomphe‘ in Wellington. They are represented in galleries of Wellington, Nelson, Napier, Berlin and Copenhagen. Education 1984-88 Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris 1985 Private studies under the tutelage of Rudolph Lang who was Gustav Klimt’s student 1984 Art Baccalaureate Memberships 2005-2007 Chair of the Association of Berlin Artists 2000-2002 Elected Member of the Culture Council for Visual Art in Berlin 1998 -2011 Member of the Association of Berlin Artists (VBK) 1992-2010 Founder /Member/Curator of Meshulash, the artists and intellectuals group in Berlin