Guenter Heim

Guenter Heim ASA, SCA (born April 8, 1935). Is a Canadian artist notable for his impressionistic landscapes of western Canada. Born in Nuremberg, Germany, Heim studied under Ludwig Schultheiss. He came to Canada in 1954, and continued his studies at the H.B. Beal Technical School in London, Ontario under Hugh McKenzie and Herb Arris. He worked as a television artist in Wingham, Ontario (1967) and later, he taught at Fanshawe College in London, and Georgian College in Owen Sound, Ontario. He moved to Alberta in 1977. Working in oil, acrylic and watercolour, his subjects include ranch, genre and prairie scenes near Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta and in the Okanagan, British Columbia. His work is in the collections of the LAG and TTAG. [The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction Volume 2: G-L (2000) Westbridge Publishing ISBN 0968590713]

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