Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf

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Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf (born July 20, 1928 in Dresden ; † November 11, 2006 there ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist .

Life

Free Yourself (1987)
Grave of Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf in the Trinitatisfriedhof in Dresden

After graduating from high school in 1947, Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf studied from 1948 to 1952 at the plastic department of the Dresden University of Fine Arts . In addition to Theodor Artur Winde (1886–1965), from 1949 Fritz Koelle and Walter Arnold were her teachers . The meeting with Eugen Hoffmann , a former member of the Dresden Secession Group in 1919, was also formative . After her studies, Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf was involved in the restoration of the Berlin State Opera .

In 1953 she married Günther Landgraf , later rector of the Technical University of Dresden , and gave birth to their fourth child in 1965. In the 1950s she first turned to drawing and did portraits and nudes. From 1952, Sommer-Landgraf worked as a freelance sculptor. By the end of the 1970s, she increasingly broke away from the three-dimensional language of forms that had been shown in her sculpture Standing Boy from 1976, for which her son Bernd was the model.

In sculpture symposia from 1977 to 1979, during which she met other Dresden artists such as Peter Makolies and Hartmut Bonk , numerous larger than life sandstone sculptures were created, which were set up in Dresden, among other places. The sandstone sculpture Contemplation , which was the result of a sculpture symposium in the Prohlis Wood in Dresden, is now on the grounds of the TU Dresden. From 1982 onwards, Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf increasingly used marble and limestone for abstract sculptures. In addition, numerous bronze medals and busts were created, for example a stele in memory of Robert Schumann , which was set up in 1986 at the Semperoper in Dresden.

In 1987, Sommer-Landgraf's most important work was created, the monumental sculpture Liberating yourself from Carrara marble, which was set up in 1990 in the Palaisgarten in Dresden and symbolizes liberation from socialism . In 1981 Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf accepted a teaching position at the architecture section of the TU Dresden for “figurative drawing”, which lasted until 1988.

At the suggestion of her husband, Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf began to work in computer graphics in 1988 . The first black and white graphics were created on an Atari home computer , later color graphics followed, which were printed on A4 using a 4-color dot matrix printer . Günther Landgraf himself subsequently developed computer programs in printer code that enabled printing with up to 340 colors based on the tones yellow, red, blue and black . Later programs in Visual Basic developed by Günther Landgraf enabled complex graphics with a size of 70 × 100 centimeters. Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf did not start her computer graphics from a template that she changed, but created her works exclusively on the computer, on which she converted mathematical processes into graphic structures. Later works were printed on special paper using inkjet technology . Collages based on computer graphics were also created. For her graphics she was awarded the first prize for computer graphics at the international " Cynetart " 2001 in Dresden.

From 1988 onwards, small-format marble sculptures were also created as designs for public spaces. In 1992 a series of portraits of five important musicians was put up in the Semperoper . From 1996 onwards, Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf made numerous marble sculptures of her own in porcelain from the Saxon Porcelain Manufactory Dresden in Freital .

Her grave is in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden. The joint grave with her husband Günther Landgraf is adorned with two sculptures by Sommer-Landgraf: a figurative seated sculpture and a bust of Günther Landgraf.

Works (selection)

Sheep Well (1983)
Robert Schumann Stele (1986) at the Semperoper Dresden
  • Standing boy (bronze, 1976)
  • Reflection (sandstone, 1981)
  • Sheep well (stone sculpture, 1983)
  • three-part group of sculptures made of Vraza limestone on Hochschulstraße Dresden (another sculpture added in 1993)
  • Robert Schumann Stele (bronze, 1986)
  • Free oneself (marble, 1987)
  • Bust of Günther Landgraf (bronze, 1993)
  • Triangles in red, black and gray (serigraph in colors, 1994)
  • Sculptures in the Backhaus-Barnett landscape garden in Rodisleben
  • Plastic rearing in the Sonneneck Dresden-Gorbitz (Sandstein, 1986)

Portraits in bronze, such as those of Heinrich Schütz , Otto Dix or Robert Schumann , can now be found in and next to the Semperoper in Dresden. Sandstone and marble sculptures in public spaces were set up in Dresden, Dortmund and Karlsruhe, among others. The Nationalgalerie Berlin , the Kupferstichkabinett Dresden and the Lindenau Museum in Altenburg have, among other museums, computer graphics by Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf. Porcelain versions of their marble sculptures can be found in the German Porcelain Museum in Hohenberg . The TU Dresden also owns numerous computer graphics and small sculptures as well as various sculptures that are located on the university grounds.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

  • 2001: Award for computer graphics in the International Festival for Computer Aided Art CYNETart
  • 2007: Artist film “Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf. Stone and pixel "

literature

  • New Sächsischer Kunstverein (ed.): Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf: Sculptures, sculptures, computer collages. New Sächsischer Kunstverein Dresden, Dresden 1993.
  • Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf: Working on the computer, inkjet prints, dot matrix prints: 1994–1997. Druckhaus Dresden, Dresden 1997.
  • Wilhelm Siemen (Ed.): Porcelain becomes plastic again. German Porcelain Museum , Hohenberg an der Eger 1999, ISBN 3-927793-58-2 .
  • Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf: Working on the computer. Original inkjet prints 1998–1999. Druckhaus Dresden, Dresden 1999.
  • Gunter Ziller: plastic, sculpture and computer graphics. In: Dresden University Journal . 16, 2003, p. 12 ( online as PDF; 1 MB).
  • Reinhild Tetzlaff (Ed.): Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf - Computerkunst. Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 2007.
  • Jürgen Schieferdecker : Art in the middle of the life of the TU Dresden. In: Dresden University Journal. 14, 2008, p. 12 ( online as PDF; 1.5 MB).

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personal data
SURNAME Summer Landgrave, Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sommer, Charlotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2006
Place of death Dresden