Bettina Heinen-Ayech

Bettina Heinen-Ayech (3 September 1937 – 7 June 2020) was a German painter. She became known for her colorful landscape views of Algeria.

Between 1955 and 2017 she had many exhibitions worldwide and won several prizes.

Heinen-Ayech died on 7 June 2020.

Bettina Heinen was the daughter of Johann Jakob Josef "Hanns" Heinen (1895–1961), a journalist born in Bauchem, Germany. For many years he was editor-in-chief of the Solinger Tageblatt and the industry newspaper Eberswalder Offertenblatt. He was also active as a lyricist and playwright. Her mother Erna Steinhoff-Heinen (1898–1969), was born in Düsseldorf and came from a Westphalian family from the Soest area. Bettina Heinen had three siblings, two brothers and a sister; the children grew up in a Solingen, Germany home characterized by art and openness.

The family lived in an old half-timbered house in the district of Höhscheid, former pit for a lead mine there, which Heinen continued to live in during stays in her hometown until her old age.