Heinz Hemrich

Born in Schwäbisch Hall, Hemrich performed military service (including a period in captivity) from 1942 to 1945.

From 1973 he worked at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, first as a lecturer and later as a professor.

Hemrich executed numerous commissions for public buildings such as universities, churches and schools.

In 1963/64 he created new concrete buttresses with symbolic representations of civic history for St. Christoph, Mainz, where Johannes Gutenberg was baptised and which was damaged in World War II.

For the Protestant Auferstehungskirche (Resurrection Church) in Mainz, he took the late medieval motif of a pictured Bible and redesigned it as a concrete frieze.