Personal Data (Curriculum
Vitae)
"HeMi" has been born in
1938.
He has together with
his wife two daughters. Since 1953 he lives - with
interruptions in Frankfurt am Main. 1956 he started acquiring
his knowledge concerning artistic theory and practice,
above aIl
a the Städel
Abendschule
and at the Volkshochschule in Frankfurt am Main, at the universities
of Berlin as well
as
of MOnchen and during workshops as well as study trips in Frankfurt am
Main, Trier, Séguret (F) and Lédenon (F).
In
1980 HeMi has decided in favour of the conscious artistic
interconnection to expand and to intensify his artistic activities
entering the global network of mail art.
From 1970 on HeMi's world-wide artistic participation,
ie. verbal communication and non-verbal interaction, manifested
itself beyond the numerous correspondences and mail ari meetings with
his in particular mail ari partners stili: in 45 personal exhibitions
in B, D, F, I, J, ROK and in the USA, in 10 own international mail ari
projects, in some carried out by
himself workshops, in several texts being translated
into a number of languages, namely into Dutch, English, Hungarian,
Italian, Portuguese and into Romanian, in own editions of artist's
postcards, artist's postage stamps ("artistamps") and own artist's
bobks, in some hundred coopèrative projects, above ali in numerous
exhibitions and many editions, like collective prints, collections of
prints, cooperative books and cooperative periodicals, in the public
and private collecting of his works, in mentions within print media
and other ones, inclusive the Internet, in several distinctions and in
his HeMiSpheres-Archives as reflection of his artistic work and
networking. It shows own, others' and cooperative works, documents as
well as documentations and has gone to the Museum of Communication in
Frankfurt in 2004.