Christa year

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Christa Jahr (born August 8, 1941 in Quedlinburg ) is a German illustrator and graphic artist .

Christa Jahr at work on a woodcut
Christa Jahr at the exhibition opening in Bernburg Castle on the occasion of the 100th birthday of her drawing teacher and art educator Karl Görner (2011)

Life

After graduating from high school in Bernburg (Saale) (today High School Carolinum Bernburg ) in 1959 , Christa Jahr studied at the technical school for librarians ( Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig ) and passed the state examination in 1962. From 1962 to 1968 she worked as a librarian in Bernburg and Leipzig.

From 1968 to 1973 she studied at the traditional University of Graphics and Book Art (HGB) Leipzig with Werner Tübke , Hans Mayer-Foreyt , Wolfgang Mattheuer , Rolf Kuhrt and Karl-Georg Hirsch . Her diploma thesis from 1973 was incorporated into the book publication Ei der Tausend on stories from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and was awarded in 1974 as part of the most beautiful books of the GDR . Six more awards followed in this context.

Since 1973 she has been working as a freelance artist in Leipzig. From 1974 to 1990 she was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and from 1990 to 1998 of the Association of Visual Artists Leipzig (BBKL). In the period 1986–2007, sculptural and ceramic works were also created. From 1987 to 1990 Christa Jahr taught at the HGB Leipzig in the evening academy . She lives and works in Leipzig.

Works (selection)

Woodcuts (selection)

  • 1978 gardens and fences
  • 1980 same
  • 1991 Together
  • 2004 Closed are the circles of my time (color woodcut and material printing)
  • 2007 witch (woodcut and linocut)

Wood engravings (selection)

  • 1974 graphic portfolio: 10 sheets for June Olescha Neid , graphic portfolio
  • 1974 Sheets on Robert Schumann 's Scenes from Children
  • 1985 illusion
  • 1976/2000 in 7 Leipzig picture sheets
  • 2001 The wonderful art of a cat (3 acrylic stitches), Leipzig graphic exchange

Book illustrations (selection)

  • 1978 ETA Hoffmann Klein-Zaches (Insel Verlag Leipzig, Insel-Bücherei ), wood engravings
  • 1983 Johann Wolfgang Goethe Hundred Poems ( Verlag Neues Leben Berlin), wood engravings
  • 1984 Kafka stories ( Der Morgen Berlin publishing house ), Piacrylic engravings
  • 1984 Sherlock Holmes from Prague. Czech humoresques (Verlag der Nation, Berlin)
  • 1985 Mining legends from the Saxon Ore Mountains (German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig), wood engravings
  • 1987 Gogol Die Kalesche and other stories ( Eulenspiegel-Verlag ), mezzotints
  • 1984 A Prague Sherlock Holmes ( Verlag der Nation Berlin), mezzotints
  • 1978 Isolde Gardos Like the bird - like the song (Domowina-Verlag Bautzen)
  • 1980 A strange woman and the husband under the bed. Russian satirical stories. (Eulenspiegel-Verlag)
  • 1984 Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis and Other Animal Stories ( Der Morgen publisher, Berlin), wood engravings

Scraper leaves (selection)

  • 1989 10 sheets on Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Nonpolitical Songs
  • 1990/91 back in the case
  • 1992 chameleon
  • 1995 trees

Drawings (selection)

  • 1997 Big stomp
  • 1998 house
  • 1999/2000 saw shark
  • 2006 hands
  • 2008 stay in the country

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1973 Bernburg Museum in the castle
  • 1975 Dresden Art of Time
  • 1978 Leipzig Georg Maurer Library
  • 1980 Merseburg Museum Art Cabinet
  • 1981 Bautzen State Art Trade of the GDR
  • 1985 Leipzig Gallery North
  • 1996 Leipzig-Grünau Library
  • 2000 Leipzig art department store
  • 2001 Gallery South Leipzig
  • 2002 Berlin Insel-Galerie

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1974 Graphic in the GDR, Berlin
  • 1979 Book illustration in the GDR, Berlin
  • 1979 100 Selected Graphics of the GDR, Not Blind, Still Lame Woodcut (18.5 × 13.8 cm)
  • 1974, 1979, 1985 district art exhibition in Leipzig
  • 1977, 1982, 1987 art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1986 100 Selected Graphics of the GDR, same woodcut (35.3 × 48 cm)
  • 1992 Exhibition of the BBKL, Kunstkreis Holzminden
  • 1993 Book graphics and illustration, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
  • 1993 Ars Lipiensis , exhibition of the BBKL, Kunsthalle Bonn
  • 1993 Opus , Wort & Werk Leipzig,
  • 1994 separated-united , exhibition of the GEDOK , old town hall Leipzig
  • 1995 Baum , Leipzig City Library
  • 1998 100 Saxon graphics: House 1998 (joint work with Christine Ebersbach, Marita Schulz and Tatjana Petkova), drypoint / reservation / etching, 2-colored with 10 plates (26.7 × 23.8 cm)
  • 2004 100 Saxon graphics: wood prints, (joint work with Christine Ebersbach and Marita Schulz), wing flag woodcut (wing cover 30 × 970 cm)
  • 2005 GEDOK- Hamburg gallery : six hands (joint work with Christine Ebersbach and Marita Schulz)
  • 2007 XYLON - Museum + Werkstätten Schwetzingen: Witch woodcut (49 × 42 cm)

Awards

1974 Egg of a thousand to stories from " Des Knaben Wunderhorn " (diploma thesis 1973, HGB Leipzig)
1978 Honorary recognition for The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Verlag Neues Leben Berlin)
1978 Like the bird - so the song by Isolde Gardos (Domowina-Verlag Bautzen)
1980 A strange woman and the husband under Margit Bräuer's bed (Eulenspiegel-Verlag Berlin)
1984 Honorable recognition for The Metamorphosis and other animal stories by Franz Kafka (Der Morgen publisher)
1984 A Prague Sherlock Holmes by Ludwig Richter (Verlag der Nation Berlin)
1986 Mining legends from the Ore Mountains by Dietmar Werner, Eberhard Neubert and Christa Jahr (VEB Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindindustrie Leipzig 1985)
Silver medal for Die Kalesche and other stories by Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol (Eulenspiegel-Verlag Berlin)
  • 2000 100 Saxon graphics
Recognition for rust (joint work with Christine Ebersbach, Marita Schulz and Tatjana Petkova) color etching (645 × 875 cm)

literature

  • Lothar Lang: FISAE International Ex-libris-Congress Portugal 1982.
  • Herbert Kästner : The graphic artist and illustrator Christa Jahr. In Illustration 63, 1984, 1
  • Ute Willer: The Leipzig wood engraving illustrators. In Illustration 63 , 1993, 1
  • Lothar Lang: From Hegenbarth to Altenburg. Book illustration and artist book in the GDR. Hauswedell, Stuttgart 2000
  • Rainer Behrends: Leipziger Bilderbogen 1–50 and none more. Catalog Karl Marx University Leipzig, Leipzig 1990
  • Dietmar Eisold : Lexicon artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin 2010, p. 397 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Krenzlin : On the Saale bright beach - the 1050-year anniversary of the city of Bernburg and the 100th birthday of the chronicler Karl Görner: old towns, bridges, churches, castle, inns, residential and commercial buildings. With a contribution by Volker Ebersbach . Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum Schloss Bernburg January 23 to March 27, 2011. Bernburger Freizeit GmbH; Museum Schloss Bernburg, Bernburg 2011, ISBN 3-9807097-8-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Year, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg