Christa Koslitz

Christa Koslitz (born December 8, 1944 in Berlin ) is a German ceramist and painter .

Life

After her birth, Koslitz's parents moved to Hennigsdorf , where she attended school. In 1959 she began a three-year pottery apprenticeship in the Grothe ceramics workshop in Velten, which she successfully completed in 1962. In 1970 she passed the master's examination. While a large number of ceramists in and around Berlin studied at the Weißensee University, they received their artistic stamp from 1976 to 1977 while studying at the Halle University of Industrial Design, today Halle's Burg Giebichenstein University of Art .

Over the entire period, she continued to work in the Velten company, which produced a wide range of mainly vases, jugs and bowls in clear, simple and timeless shapes made of unglazed and polished terracotta or terra sigillata. For years she turned vessels in performance wages and thus acquired a technical routine that still forms the technical basis of her oeuvre today.

However, she was unable to gain experience with glazes, the second important part of ceramics, in this company, but acquired this knowledge alone and self-taught .

She was supported by Hedwig Bollhagen .

When Gerd Lucke and Frank Liebscher, who worked there on behalf of “Burg” Giebichenstein, also visited the Grothe workshop in search of a pottery for the ceramic students, she came into contact with both of them and, through Gerd Lucke, was able to do the same with craftsmen with creative ambitions Successfully complete the coveted evening course of the former rector Walter Funkat at the castle in the late 1970s.

In 1976 she founded her own workshop in Hennigsdorf.

A year later she joined the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , to which she was a member until 1990. In 1981 she took part in the 3rd  International Ceramic Symposium in Römhild.

She has lived and worked in her own workshop in Hohen Neuendorf since 1983 . In the period from 1991 to 1996 there was joint work with the painter Wolf-Dieter Pfennig. From 1991 to 2001 she was a member of Kunst und Form e. V. Berlin.

Since 2004 she has been a member of the Professional Association of Applied Arts Berlin Brandenburg e. V.

Exhibitions

• 1982–1990 Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions in Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Dresden, Cottbus, Frankfurt / Oder, Düsseldorf, Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, France
• 1991 Gallery at Frankfurter Tor, Berlin
• 1993 Gallery at Fischmarkt, Erfurt Art Landscapes
• 1994 Galerie Passage, Berlin with Konrad Knebel
• 1995 Unikat Gallery, Oranienburg with Wolf-Dieter Pfennig
• 1995 Burggalerie, Magdeburg
• 1996 Sperl Gallery, Potsdam | Galerie am Wasserturm, Berlin Participation in an exhibition
• 1997 Arkus Gallery, Berlin with Monika Bieniek
• 1998 Gallery B, Frankfurt / Oder
• 1999 gallery in the Heimatmuseum Falkensee
• 2000 Inselgalerie, Berlin
• 2001 New Greifengalerie, Greifswald with Wolf-Dieter Pfennig | District Office Oranienburg with Andreas Fritsche
• 2002 Kunstgut Schmiedenfelde | Gallery in the gatehouse, Neubrandenburg
• 2003 Kukate works yard, Wendland | Gatehouse, Hamburg
• 2004 Realization of the hat sculpture for the city center of Luckenwalde | Reinbek Castle | Velten Oven and Ceramics Museum
• 2004 and 2005 Zeughausmesse, Berlin
• 2005 Manufakturgalerie, Berlin with Roswitha Grüttner
• 2006 Gallery Möller, Warnemünde | Smallest gallery by Feliks Büttner , Rostock | Stubengalerie, Kleinmachnow
• 2007 Gallery Orangerie, Berlin | Schoenewald-Glien Creative Center | Loans at the Ceramic Museum Berlin | Griffin gallery in Greifswald
• 2008 Gallery 100, Berlin
• 2010 Kunstgut Schmiedenfelde
• 2011 New Griffin Gallery, Greifswald
• 2012 Zeit-Kunstgalerie, Halle / Saale
• 2012 Manufakturgalerie, Berlin
• 2014 Galerie Teterow with Günther Rechn
• 2016 HB Museum Velten, group exhibition Hedwig Bollhagen and her students
• 2019 New Griffin Gallery, Greifswald with Holger Koch

literature

Christa Koslitz: ceramics ; State art trade of the GDR, 1979; Ed .: Rainer Behrends, Leipzig; Photos: B. Kuhnert; Printing: Lange Buchdruckerei, Leipzig; Print no. III-18-391 B734 / 79.

Web links

• Website by Christa Koslitz