Daniel Heinz
Artist Name: danh1z · Leipzig, Germany · 2001
Daniel Heinz is a painter from Leipzig – known by his artist name danh1z. After training as a glass and porcelain painter in Kaufbeuren, he combines precise craftsmanship with gestural painting: layer by layer, works with unmistakable depth and luminosity are created. His motifs – especially animals – confront the viewer not as symbols, but as independent beings with their own presence. Over 880 originals are held in private and institutional collections worldwide.
RESUME
Current
- Profession: Glass & Porcelain Painter
- Over 880 works in private and public collections worldwide
- Artist name: danh1z
- Represented in Germany, Italy, France, Poland, Austria, Netherlands, Switzerland, USA (New York) and South Korea (Seoul & Geoje)
- Works in important institutions, including the Diocese of Augsburg
Artist Statement
My name is Daniel Heinz, a painter from Leipzig. My work stems from a childlike longing to connect with animals – an inner impulse to paint them so that they inhabit the space around us.
Inspired by my mother's porcelain painting and Aivazovsky's The Ninth Wave, I trained as a glass and porcelain painter. The precision of applying paint in layers became the foundation of my artistic language.
Today I combine this craft with spontaneous gestures using palette knives, brushes, and flowing paint. Structure and expression meet where control meets freedom, and intimacy meets distance.
My aim is not to depict animals as symbols, but to encounter them as independent beings – counterparts with their own life force. Through the dialogue of detail and movement, a "breathing stillness" emerges in each image – surfaces that unite wild dynamism with the measured slowness of traditional craftsmanship.
No symbols. No decoration. But presences that claim their space on the canvas, just as they do in life.
Solo exhibitions
2026 - Animal Encounters, Strauch - Die Auto GmbH, Schkeuditz, Germany
2019 – Realism, Kreis- und Stadtsparkasse, Kaufbeuren, Germany
Group exhibitions
2026 - Culture and Arts, Haegeumgang Theme Museum, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
2025 – Blooming Art, Haegeumgang Theme Museum, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
2025 – Blooming Art, Kim Boseong Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2025 – Unknown Vibes Art Fair, Dragon City Novotel, Seoul, South Korea
2024 – Language of Coexistence, Haegeumgang Theme Museum, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
2023 – Life is Art, Haegeumgang Theme Museum, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
2019 – Desire of Deception, Vocational School for Glass and Jewelry, Kaufbeuren, Germany
2018 – Homeland, Vocational School for Glass and Jewelry, Kaufbeuren, Germany
2010 – Aquarius, Stadttheater (City Theater), Kaufbeuren, Germany
Publications
2025 – 100 Emerging Artworks 2025
Published in the exhibition catalog 100 Emerging Artworks 2025
Ed.: Arts to Hearts Project
ISBN: 978-8198989109
2025 – Golden Traces
Published in the exhibition catalog Blooming Art
Ed.: Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Geoje, South Korea
ISBN: not available
2024 – Unity in the Wilderness
Published in the exhibition catalog Language of Coexistence
Ed.: Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Geoje, South Korea
ISBN: not available
2023 – The Penetrating Gaze of the Master
Published in the exhibition catalog Life is Art
Ed.: Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Geoje, South Korea
ISBN: not available
Achievements
- 2025 - Encouragement Award at the 11th International Art Festival of the ICAF (International Culture & Arts Federation), Goejo, South Korea
- 2025 – Certificate of Merit for Artistic Achievement - Luxembourg Art Prize, La Pinacothèque, Luxembourg
Appeals
- 2026 - Jury Member, 12th Geoje International Art Festival, Geoje, South
Korea
