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Robert Heindel has been acclaimed as the greatest painter of dance since Degas, but former dancer Jeffery Taylor goes further, recalling that Degas himself admitted dancers had just been a pretext for painting beautiful fabrics. Heindel, on the other hand, manages to recreate the exact physical sensation of dance, the angle of the limbs, the precise feeling of supporting and guiding a partner.
Robert Heindel (October 1, 1938 - July 3, 2005) was an American painter, illustrator, and stage designer best known for his paintings of dance and performing arts. Heindel created over 1300 paintings and drawings of dance and performing arts during a twenty-five year period in the late twentieth century. He was described as the best painter of dance of his time.
Well-known patrons of dance and the performing arts collected Heindel's works and sponsored his exhibitions, including Princess Diana, Princess Margaret, Princess Caroline, Prince and Princess Takamado, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. His works are found in the permanent collections of museums including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Norman Rockwell Museum,[10] and the Glasgow Museums.
Robert Heindel has been acclaimed as the greatest painter of dance since Degas, but former dancer Jeffery Taylor goes further, recalling that Degas himself admitted dancers had just been a pretext for painting beautiful fabrics. Heindel, on the other hand, manages to recreate the exact physical sensation of dance, the angle of the limbs, the precise feeling of supporting and guiding a partner.
Robert Heindel (October 1, 1938 - July 3, 2005) was an American painter, illustrator, and stage designer best known for his paintings of dance and performing arts. Heindel created over 1300 paintings and drawings of dance and performing arts during a twenty-five year period in the late twentieth century. He was described as the best painter of dance of his time.
Well-known patrons of dance and the performing arts collected Heindel's works and sponsored his exhibitions, including Princess Diana, Princess Margaret, Princess Caroline, Prince and Princess Takamado, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. His works are found in the permanent collections of museums including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Norman Rockwell Museum,[10] and the Glasgow Museums.
