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Heinz Steinmann was born in Switzerland, 1943.
Art is very much a family affair for Heinz as his Swiss father Max Steinmann (1918 - 1994 ) was an outstanding artist of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux - Arts, France. Heinz's Australian born sister Evelyn Steinmann and his Japanese born wife Miwako are also dedicated artists.
In 1958, when Heinz was 15 the Steinmann family left Switzerland to settle in Australia.
He completed his education at Bathurst High School in 1961 with first class honours.
Instead of going on to university he headed north for the Gulf Country with a rifle and sketch book. He spent two years crocodile hunting as a living with sleeping bag and mosquito net as outdoor 'home' for months at a time.
After the croc hunting years he held numerous short term jobs to back his drawing material, including railway fettler and survey chainman in the remote bush north of Mt. Isa.
At 26 he turned to his art as a full time career which started on the opal fields of Lightning Ridge in 1969 before moving permanently to Far North Queensland.
He celebrates 50 years as full-time artist in his beloved far North Queensland. His paintings are best known as poetic interpretations of the tropical rainforest; Babinda, Port Douglas and the landscapes and characters of the Gulf Country and the Cape York wilderness, including Jowalbinna.
Over the past five decades Steinmann has long become one of Australia's widely recognised artists with many successful solo exhibitions in the leading galleries of most states.These included The Australian Galleries, Melbourne; Holdsworth and Wagner, Sydney; Lister, Perth; Solander Canberra; Schubert, Gold Coast ; Adrian Slinger and Philip Bacon in Brisbane.
Heinz Steinmann also achieved considerable acclaim in Europe with important exhibitions in Zurich, Inverness and Munich together with the ZDF television documentary of his life and work.