FAS Guiding Faculty: Robert Heindel
Robert Heindel is one of the most illustrious graduates of Famous Artists School. In the last twenty years, he has become known as a modern-day Degas for his paintings evoking the many facets of the world of ballet.
He is fascinated by dancers because, combining body and brains, they “present the greatest vehicle for me to show what I want to show.” Heindel works in oils, pastels, and conte crayons; his style 
communicates the power, the strength, and the breathless grace of his subjects, who are nearly always shown in rehearsal rather than in performance.
Heindel has portrayed dancers from London’s Royal Ballet, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Scottish Ballet and Monte Carlo Ballet Company, and has also designed the set and costumes for the Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production of The Dancehouse.
He exhibits his work internationally, and has had frequent shows in Japan, where he painted performers from the Noh and Kabuki theatre programs. Heindel was invited by Andrew Lloyd Webber to do a series of paintings of his productions of Cats and The Phantom of the Opera.
To see more of Robert Heindel’s art, please visit www.obod.com.
