Franz Heigemeir Night Blossoms II

Night Blossoms II

We have a twelve-foot high cactus like plant in our home, a night blooming cereus called Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum Oxypetalum). It produces two or more Flowers a few times during the summer. The 8" diameter creamy white blossoms start to open around 10 p.m., come to a full bloom by midnight, filling the house with an intensely haunting fragrance and then slowly shrivel and die.

After repeatedly witnessing this rare and profound happening, I was compelled to put my feelings about this phenomenon on canvas. The result is now an on going series of paintings, celebrating this fleeting and singular event. Some of these are shown here in my second series of paintings.

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Blossoms with Blue Fabric Oil on canvas 29" x 46" Copyright © 2006	Under the Night Sky Diptych oil on canvas 36" x 17" and 62" Copyright © 2006


Blossoms in a Wide Bowl Diptych oil on canvas 34" x 42" and 19" Copyright © 2006	Grand Bouquet Diptych oil on canvas 30" x 32" and 50" Copyright © 2006


Close Proximity Oil on canvas 28" x 36" Copyright © 2006	Composition with Clear and Colored Glass Oil on canvas 29" x 50" Copyright © 2006	Incoming Light Oil on canvas 30" x 44" Copyright © 2006


Full Bloom Diptych oil on canvas 36" x 34" and 44" Copyright © 2006	Partial Eclipse Oil on canvas 20" x 50" Copyright © 2006

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Refracted Light Oil on canvas 34" x 38" Copyright © 2006	Blossom with Peach Oil on canvas 44" x 48" Copyright © 2006

	A limited edition (35), high quality Giclee print on a standard size 20" x 28" archival paper, ready for framing. Each signed and numbered. Price: $200.00 plus $6.00 shipping and handling. NY State residents add 8% ($16.00) sales tax.
Underglow 13½" x 22" Giclee Print Copyright © 2006	Send check or money order to: Franz Heigemeir P.O. Box 88 Rifton, NY 12471

Click here to view my first series of paintings.
Night Blossoms I

Click here to view the International Artist Magazine "Florals and Still Life" competition results.
"Daybreak", 46" x 59" oil on canvas.

About the Artist

Graduate of the Kunstschule Augsburg, Germany 1953
Studied Calligraphy at the Art Students League with Arnold Bank 1954
Since 1976 active member of the Woodstock Artists Association.

Group Exhibits:

Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, ongoing since 1972
Arts Society of Kingston Biennial Sculpture Exhibition 2001
SUNY New Paltz regional exhibit: In This Time and Place 1996
Albany Museum of History and Art 1976
National Academy of Design 1973, 1974 and 1975

One-Man Shows:

Cunneen-Hackett, Poughkeepsie, NY 2006
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY 1989, 2005
Petrucci Gallery, Saugerties, NY 1989
Harvard Law Library, Cambridge, Mass. Interpretive Calligraphy 1988
Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY 1987

Awards:

International Artist Magazine Award 2006
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum
Sally Jacobs/Phoebe Towbin Award 2006
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum Sculpture Prize 2001
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum Sidney Laufman Award 2001
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum Yasuo Kuniyoshi Award 1988
First Prize in Oil, Artists of Ulster County Open Exhibition 1989

Other:

Since 1990 the design and calligraphy of the annual Four Freedoms Awards
for the Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, NY.
Listed in Who is Who in the East 1975-76.
In 1999 created an eighteen foot high Millennium stained glass window for our home in Rifton, NY.

To Contact the Artist

Franz Heigemeir
Post Office Box 88
Rifton, New York 12471
Telephone: (845) 658-9665

Links

Critique by: RAYMOND J. STEINER

Windham Fine Arts

Woodstock Artists Association and Museum

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