Christel Lechner

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Christel Lechner, La Palma 2019

Christel Lechner (born November 10, 1947 in Iserlohn ) is a German master potter , sculptor and installation artist . She lives and works in Witten an der Ruhr, Durchholz district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

life and work

Christel Lechner trained as a ceramist in Landshut from 1969 to 1971 and 1978 to 1981, and in 1982 took the master's examination at the Werkkunstschule Münster . She founded the Lechnerhof in Witten-Durchholz in 1971 with her husband at the time, the artist and ceramic fitter Peter Lechner, and they have two daughters.

Since 1986 she has been working with art ceramics ; Initially, huge white chickens made of styrofoam and concrete became known nationwide. Since 1988 it has almost exclusively shown larger-than-life everyday people, also polystyrene / concrete constructions, which have been regularly exhibited in public since 1996 and also lent for this purpose.

Christel Lechner has been the sole operator of the Lechnerhof workshop since 2001. Today she is best known for her large concrete sculptures , people and groups of people (quasi caricatures or typical 1950s / 60s quotes to be looked at) that appear on exhibitions and stagings not only in many German cities, but also in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece and Italy are or were to be seen.

Exhibitions in public space

Dancing couple with dog, Iserlohn
Everyday people, Gevelsberg 2011

Figure groups by Christel Lechner have been in Langenhagen , Kaiserslautern , Berlin ( Märkisches Viertel ) and above all in her hometown Witten since 2000 . There are angel figures in Schmallenberg . In Bad Westernkotten (Soest district), figures from the Everyday People series have been purchased since 2007 and placed in various places around the town. With 60 figures, the exhibition Everyday People was in Heerlen in spring 2008 . In 2009 a group of over 50 figures was on view in the old town area of Telgte and Aalen . For the fourth time in Wiedenbrück in 2009 around 70 figures of everyday people were set up for six months.

For the 2006 World Cup , the figure group “Football without Borders” was created in Kaiserslautern at Philipp-Mees-Platz , each showing a figure from the teams that played in the Fritz-Walter Stadium .

In 2010 Lechner exhibited in downtown Bochum . Also new since 2010 are some large figures in the building of the Berlin Treuhandanstalt at the main station. The figures have been enriching the cityscape in Emsdetten since 2011, and in Gevelsberg since 2011 . In 2015, on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the Strasbourg Cathedral, a total of 50 figures were distributed over the old town of Strasbourg . In August 2016, Christel Lechner's “everyday people” stood in Rees. The artist showed her everyday people for the first time on the Lower Rhine.

At the Bundesgartenschau 2019 in Heilbronn, the everyday group of people “showering” was set up as part of art at the BUGA . After the garden show, the figures remained permanently at their location at the listed bridge lock on Wilhelmskanal . From March to November 2019, Lechner exhibited new productions of everyday people in the Lichtenwalde Castle Park near Chemnitz and in the public space in Frankenberg (Saxon State Horticultural Show Frankenberg) on ​​Dammplatz and on the Chemnitz Rosenhof as part of the application for European Capital of Culture 2025 . In total there were over 70 figures. In summer 2019 there were some sculptures in Wenningstedt-Braderup on Sylt. In spring 2020 some sculptures came back to Wenningstedt-Braderup. In the table scene , in which 10 figures are actually sitting at a 6-meter-long table, the artist takes up the subject of the COVID-19 pandemic by placing everyday people at three smaller tables with a safe distance . In Wiedenbrück , on the initiative of a foundation, 90 everyday people have been set up every year from spring to autumn since 2019.

reception

Numerous older works can be seen in your hometown of Witten. In 2018 the press questioned why no development can be seen.

"Your figures reflect people and situations in everyday life and many a viewer may discover a certain similarity to real life in them"

literature

  • Everyday people in Aalen , Aalen: Edition Ostalb, 2009
  • Everyday life , Bönen: Kettler, 2003

Web links

Commons : Christel Lechner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see "Stille Stadtbewohner" report in "Stadtlust" 2/2013, pp. 96-101
  2. ↑ The small fan guide for the 2nd Bundesliga. Retrieved February 7, 2017 .
  3. ^ Exhibition of everyday people in Schmallenberg. Retrieved November 29, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Summer campaign everyday people in Aalen ( Memento from March 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ The "everyday people" are back in town ( Memento from June 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ The Sporting Statues Project: Football Without Borders: Philipp-Mees-Platz, Bahnhofstrasse, Kaiserslautern. In: offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk. June 12, 2006, accessed March 7, 2018 .
  7. ^ Exhibition of everyday people in Emsdetten. Retrieved November 29, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Concrete visitors populate the city center. Retrieved September 5, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Christmas letter from the Lord Mayor (December 2019) looking back on the events of the year (p. 8). Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Augustusburg / Scharfenstein / Lichtenwalde Schlossbetriebe: Lichtenwalder Schlosspark kicks off the 2019 open-air season with the special exhibition “Everyday People” . Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Everyday people in Wenningstedt-Braderup.Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  12. ↑ Burckhard Kramer Foundation: Everyday People . Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
  13. ↑ see WAZ of September 14, 2018: "Artist Christel Lechner still has a lot to do"
  14. ↑ Quote from "Garten-Träume", autumn 2018, pp. 60–63
personal data
SURNAME Lechner, Christel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn