Christa collector

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Christa collector

Christa Collector (born December 23, 1932 in Breslau ) is a German sculptor .

Career

Christa Collector received drawing lessons from Alfred Herzog in Bautzen from 1948 to 1951 . In 1951 she graduated from high school. 1951 to 1956 he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts with Walter Arnold . From 1956 to 1958 she was a master class student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR with Gustav Seitz . Collector was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR from 1958 to 1990 . Since 1958 she has been working freelance in Berlin .

In addition to working as a sculptor, she campaigned for the rescue and preservation of historical buildings and sculptures (Potsdam: Dutch Quarter, Marstall. Berlin: New Museum, old building facades).

As a member of the board of the Gesellschaft Historisches Berlin e. V. (GHB) in 2001, with the endorsement of the President of the House of Representatives Walter Momper, she successfully campaigned for a meaningful location for the monument to Freiherr vom Stein in front of the Berlin House of Representatives.

She traveled to Czechoslovakia , the Soviet Union , Hungary , Poland , Bulgaria , Yugoslavia , Greece , Italy , France , Switzerland and Belgium . The artistic estate of Christa Collector is now in the Winckelmann Museum in Stendal .

Major works

Girl with apple
Girl with a Ball , 1965
  • Girl with apple. 1962, bronze, height 75 cm, Dresden - Albertinum , Skulpturensammlung, Güstrow to Barlach to memorials, Erfurt iGA, Gera Culture Park. In Nibelungen Park in Berlin district of Lichtenberg is a second cast of this sculpture.
  • Great lying woman . 1966, nurses' school in Frankfurt / Oder
  • Nine-part relief cycle music. 1969–1974, aluminum, 16 × 3 m, for the foyer of the music hall in the Chemnitz congress center
  • Schliemann monument . 1978–1981, Heinrich Schliemann High School in Berlin
  • Peace (after Aristophanes) . 1984, bronze, sandstone for the forecourt of the German Theater in Berlin
  • Schliemann to the monument. Bronze on sandstone stele, 1994, 2 panels 170 × 51 cm, for the Heinrich Schliemann Gymnasium in Berlin
  • Five-part cycle of reliefs from man to nature to laws. 1986–1991, bronze, for the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
  • Present past. Stele, 1991, bronze, 25.5 × 75 cm
  • Berlin Still Life No. IV. 1971, aluminum, 46 × 35 cm
  • Troy, skull in helmet. 1980, polyester, 54 x 50 cm

Fonts

  • On behalf of the Gesellschaft Historisches Berlin: The undesirable developments in the historic center of Berlin between 1990 and 1998.
  • The monument to the Baron von und zum Stein in Berlin from 1875 to 2001 and the determination of the future location.
  • Two brochures: The New Museum to the critical opinion of the Gesellschaft Historisches Berlin on the planned reconstruction and The Neues Museum in Berlin to the conception of the Gesellschaft Historisches Berlin on the reconstruction of the staircase hall.
  • On the decline of our cities, in the Bauwelt issue of January 5, 1990.
  • Catalog Christa Collectors. 1994
  • The street under the linden trees, past and present 1814–2014. 2014.
  • The monument ensemble of the Wars of Liberation 1813–1815 on Unter den Linden. 2015.

Awards

  • 1976: Will Lammert Prize from the GDR Academy of Arts
  • 1985: Art Prize of the GDR
  • 1988: Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Academy of Arts of the GDR

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

in: Berlin, Dresden, Rostock, Stendal, Görlitz, Greifswald, Ankershagen, Bautzen, Arneburg, Zollbrücke to Galerie Dammbohlenhaus

Participations (selection)

  • 1958–1986: Participation in the art exhibitions of the GDR in Dresden
  • 1977: Antwerp, plastic park to Middelheim
  • 1981: Budapest, International Small Sculpture Exhibition
  • 1982: Berlin, archaic and modern
  • 1986: Padua, 14th small sculpture up to the Biennale
  • 1987–1988: Bonn / Munich / Mannheim, sculpture from the GDR
  • 1989: Fellbach near Stuttgart, 4th Small Sculpture Triennial
  • 1996: Berlin, Gallery "M"
  • 2001: Rostock, "Ancient Traces"
  • 2001: FRG Troy to dream and reality
  • 2007: Galerie Neustrelitz "Measure and Emotion"

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personal data
SURNAME Collector, Christa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw