Heiko Jäckstein

A North German Root

Artist / Cultural Researcher / Author / Editor / Curator / Lecturer

Heiko Jäckstein was born in 1968 in Reinbek, Schleswig-Holstein, and grew up in the Hamburg area. The unique light conditions of northern Germany had a profound influence on his artistic development. Likewise, the people of this region and the landscape "between the seas" were and continue to be formative influences on his style.

Jäckstein studied graphic design in Hamburg and painting in Trier. He taught painting and drawing at the EKA European Art Academy Trier, the Academy of Fine Arts Kolbermoor in Bavaria, and the Lübeck Art School.

Since 2013, Jäckstein has been researching the history of the Gothmund artists' colony, which he rediscovered, and has published—for the first time in art history—about the colony of Impressionists in the over 500-year-old Lübeck fishing village.

Together with Marlis Zahn, he curated the first museum exhibition on the artists' colony and subsequent generations of artists at the Behnhaus Drägerhaus Museum Lübeck, Gallery of 19th-Century and Classical Modern Art ("Gothmund: Fishing Village and Artists' Colony on the Trave River"), which ran very successfully from April 2023 to January 2024. The exhibition encompassed 175 years of art on the Trave River, featuring works by, among others, the Impressionist Ernst Eitner, the Expressionist Christian Rohlfs, and contemporary Gothmund-themed works by Heiko Jäckstein.

Standard work: Heiko Jäckstein and Marlis Zahn are the editors and authors of the art book "Come Along to Gothmund! - Artists in the Fishing Village and the Trave Landscape," published in 2023. It is a summary of their ten years of art historical and topographical research.


``` In 2025, the new publication by the author team Jäckstein & Zahn was released: "Toni. Eitner. Love. – On the Joy of Being a Lübeck Resident – ​​Memories of the Time from 1878 to 1938," illustrated with important paintings and previously unpublished sketches by her husband Ernst Eitner (1867–1955), the "Monet of the North."

Heiko Jäckstein lives, paints, and conducts research in Lübeck.

www.atelierjaeckstein.de