Berann, Heinrich Caesar Berann (sold)
Heinrich Caesar Berann (March 31, 1915 - December 4, 1999) was an Austrian cartographer and topographical painter. Berann was born in Tyrol, Austria, to a family of artists. He studied painting at the Federal School of Art and Design at Innsbruck from 1930 - 1933. In addition to pursuing his own art, Berann worked as a commercial artist and graphic designer. Its first successful painting was a 1934 promotional panoramic map of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, a newly opened mountain road in Austria. This led to additional commissions, most of which were for topographical paintings, views, and other cartographic-adjacent projects. His work was often painstaking; for example, for his 1966 panorama of the Himalayas for National Geographic, he made preliminary sketches by flying around Mount Everest in a chartered plane. His work gained a following and, over a long career, he produced more than 100 topographic paintings, including the seminal 1977 bathymetric map of Marie Tharp and Bruce C. Heezen, and panoramas for the U.S. National Park Service: North Cascades National Park (1987), Yosemite National Park (1989), Yellowstone National Park (1991), and finally Denali National Park and Preserve (1994).
A triumph for geology and women in science.
The visually striking and scientifically significant 1977 Marie Tharp and Bruce C. Heezen physiographic map of the world detailing the oceans' floors. The map offers a striking axonometric view of the terrain throughout, with the focus being the seabed. A revolutionary work, it combines genuine scientific work of interpreting and compiling thousands of sonar images, with the exceptional artistry of Heinrich C. Berann. It is the largest map to emerge from the Tharp-Heezen collaboration. (more details)