Bärbel Thoelke

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Bärbel Thoelke (born February 3, 1938 in Stralsund ) is a German porcelain designer.

Life

Bärbel Thoelke studied ceramics and vessel design with Wolfgang Henze, ER Vogenauer and Rudolf Kaiser at the University of Fine and Applied Arts Berlin-Weißensee from 1958 to 1963. After graduating, she worked from 1963 to 1968 as a factory designer in the Freiberg / Saxony porcelain factory. From 1970 to 1975 she took on a teaching position at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art. Since 1970 she has been working as a freelance porcelain designer and ceramist in her own workshop in Berlin.

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The focus of her work is on porcelain vessels and objects that are oriented towards classical modernism. Her best-known works for industry are the mocha service “Madeleine” (1964) and the fireproof household tableware “Cordoflam 77” (1977) for the Freiberg / Sa porcelain factory. as well as collections of unique porcelain vessels for the Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen (2006/2008), the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin (2010/2011), the Schwarzburger Porcelain Art Workshops (2012/2013) and the Augarten Porcelain Manufactory Vienna (2015).

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1961, 1984 Faenza, International Ceramic Exhibition
  • 1977, 82, 87 Dresden, art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1991 Frechen, Keramion: German ceramic art of the present
  • 1998 Leipzig, Grassi Museum: Bärbel Thoelke. Porcelain - art form and design
  • 1999 Eupen, laureate of the EUREGIO ceramic competition 1998
  • 2000 Frechen, Keramion: THE VESSEL • CONGENIAL
  • 2000 Leipzig, GRASSI Museum for Applied Arts: BRINGING TO THE POINT - PORCELAIN FOR MEISSEN
  • 2008 Leipzig, GRASSI Museum for Applied Arts: GEVÄSS | SCULPTURE - German and international ceramics since 1946
  • 2015 Vienna, Augarten Porcelain Museum : WIENER WANDLUNGEN - BÄRBEL THOELKE and GUDRUN GAUBE interpret Augarten porcelain
  • 2017 Selb, Porzellanikon: Diversity of reproduction - porcelain designers provide insights into their working methods

Working in collections

  • Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin / National Museums in Berlin
  • German Historical Museum Berlin
  • Märkisches Museum Berlin
  • Ceramic Museum Berlin
  • Museum of Arts and Crafts Dresden - Pillnitz
  • Museum of Applied Arts Gera
  • Keramion - Museum for Contemporary Ceramic Art Cologne-Frechen
  • GRASSI Museum for Applied Arts Leipzig
  • Monastery of Our Dear Women Magdeburg
  • Pottery Museum Raeren / Belgium
  • State Museum Schwerin

literature

  • Hans-Peter Jakobson (Ed.): Bärbel Thoelke - Porcelain. Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2018, 112 pp., 142 ills., ISBN 978-3-89790-550-4
  • Hans-Peter Jakobson: Bärbel Thoelke - Precision and Poetry. The porcelain vessels from Bärbel Thoelke. In: Diversity of duplication - porcelain designers give insights into their working methods (Ed. Wilhelm Siemen). Writings and catalogs of the Porzellanikons Selb, 2017, Vol. 121, pp. 10–51, 41 figs., ISBN 978-3-940027-29-0 .
  • Jeanette Lauterbach: Schwarzburger workshops for porcelain art. Catalog raisonné. Ed .: Lutz Unbehaun, Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg, Rudolstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-910013-80-3
  • Hans-Peter Jakobson: About the poetry of rigor - Bärbel Thoelke and the KPM. In: Keramos issue 211/212 (January / April 2011), pp. 147–156, ISSN  0453-7580 .
  • Hans-Peter Jakobson: Bärbel Thoelke and KPM - encounters not just in white . In: NEUE KERAMIK 5/2011, pp. 12–15.
  • Vessel / sculpture - German and international ceramics since 1946. Grassi Museum for Applied Art Leipzig, Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 2008, pp. 193, 336, 337, ISBN 978-3-89790-288-6 .
  • Renate Luckner-Bien: Poetry and Objectivity - New Works by Bärbel Thoelke. In: KeramikMagazinEuropa, 1/2007, pp. 20-23, ISSN  0172-6102 .
  • Jürgen Schärer: In a nutshell / Porcelain for Meissen - in honor of Max Adolph Pfeiffer. Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen 2000, pp. 200–201, ISBN 3-910063-28-4 .
  • Dieter Gielke: Bärbel Thoelke - art form and design / porcelain from three decades. Grassi Museum for Arts and Crafts in Leipzig, Leipzig 1998
  • Contemporary German Ceramic Art - 20 Years of Keramion 1971–1991. KERAMION - Museum for Contemporary Ceramic Art, Frechen 1991, pp. 212–213
  • Christiane Keisch: Bärbel Thoelke. In: Contemporary arts and crafts - contemporary works from the GDR in the collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 1989, pp. 84–85.
  • R. Weinhold, W. Gebauer, R. Behrends: Ceramics in the GDR - tradition and modernity. 1st edition, Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1988, pp. 216-217, p. 269, ISBN 3-361-00066-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Gielke: Bärbel Thoelke - art form and design / porcelain from three decades . Museum für Kunsthandwerk zu Leipzig, issue 8/1998, p. 820
  2. ↑ Gielke: Bärbel Thoelke - art form and design / porcelain from three decades . Grassi-Museum für Kunsthandwerk zu Leipzig, issue 8/1998, pp. 784–785
  3. ↑ TEMPO 1977 . Retrieved September 16, 2015.
  4. ^ Luckner-Bien: Poetry and Objectivity - New Works by Bärbel Thoelke. In: KeramikMagazinEuropa, 1/2007, pp. 20–23
  5. ↑ Jakobson: About the poetry of rigor - Bärbel Thoelke and the KPM. In: Keramos issue 211/212 (January / April 2011), pp. 147–156
  6. ↑ BÄRBEL THOELKE born in Stralsund in 1938 . Retrieved September 16, 2015.
  7. ↑ WIENER WANDLUNGEN Gudrun Gaube - Bärbel Thoelke . Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  8. ↑ Issue 5/11 ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neue-keramik.de
  9. ^ Exhibition Bärbel Thoelke - Art Form and Design, Porcelain from Three Decades (1998: Leipzig)
  10. ↑ Contemporary arts and crafts: contemporary works from the GDR in the collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts / Decorative Arts Museum, Staatl. Museums in Berlin. Christiane Keisch.
personal data
SURNAME Thoelke, Bärbel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German porcelain designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund