Anna Maria Heinreich

About Anna Maria Heinreich , alias AMH

STATEMENT
My work as costume designer is related to human beings and their transformation. During my theatre career, I have always attached great importance to expressing and enhancing the personality of the characters through the costumes/clothes
When drawing costume sketches for the atelier, I pay a particular attention to the characters’ attitude showing their emotions.
With my ceramics, I enjoy expressing myself with an ancient and living material as clay in which I put my passion for art and beauty. My ceramic figures and cases express simplicity and immediacy and they do not fear the failures of the handmade process, still they enhance the spontaneous and capture a poetic mood.
My motto is: let’s play with imagination and imperfection.

BIOGRAPHY
I was born in Austria, Vienna.
Ever since my childhood I have been passionate about creating dresses for puppets and I engaged myself to make my costumes for the school theatre. Following that passion, I studied fashion and costume design.
After my education in Vienna I moved to Paris, the “town of fashion”, where I improved my French studying literature and art and attending opera and theatre performances even more often until I clearly and de...

EDUCATION
Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Vienna, Austria
Degree of French Language and Literature from Sorbonne in Paris

EXHIBITIONS
My work is part of numerous private collections, and is included in numerous articles about theatrical costume.
Some of my costumes are included in Costume exhibitions like:
“Travestimenti”40 anni Sartoria Farani, Complesso Monumentale Santo Spirito, Rom, 2004
“Costumer le pouvoir à l’opéra et au cinéma” Centre national du costume de scène, Moulins, France, 2013


“Vestire la lirica” costume sketches for theatre, Galleria Russo, Amelia 2021

-May 2022 participates in the collective exhibition "Animal Fabula" curated by the Lunar Society, Fogli Archive in Bassano in Teverina with a sculpture and later in November 2022, at the Vallicelliana Library, in Rome with 3 animal sculptures.

-June 2023 was selected to participate in the "Cèramica" Market Exhibition of Montelupo Fiorentino.

-February 2023 participates with some drawings in the collective exhibition "Nightmares - Nachtmahre" curated by the Lunar Society in Bassano in Teverina.