Articles

To Keep Alive Uncertainty

Heinz Henghes explains why he cannot “explain” his work, and what he means by the sense of Man in Nature and Nature in Man. From Black Eggs, Autumn 1971.

Heinz by Teresa Gleadowe

Teresa Gleadowe’s 1976 portrait of Henghes as teacher, friend and survivor, from his years at Winchester School of Art to his house in the Dordogne.

Conversation with Heinz Henghes

A 1973 interview from Southern Arts in which Henghes talks about carving, Ezra Pound, Italy and Paris, his choice of materials and his years of teaching.

Brian Patten

Poet Brian Patten, one of the ‘Liverpool Poets’, remembers his friendship with Heinz Henghes, the poems and book he dedicated to him and ‘The Last Gift’, written after Heinz’s death.

Kein Volk Traegt Uns

A 1959 response to Sir Herbert Read on art and society, arguing that art is made by man for man, with Henghes’s own account of learning to carve marble.

The New Directions Colophon

How Henghes’s centaur figure, carved in Rapallo with Ezra Pound’s help, became the New Directions colophon. From the New Directions newsletter, March 2003.

La Piscina, Como

The story of the pool Henghes made in the 1950s for the Villa Rospini on Lake Como, bordered by white marble birds in flight.