Christl Prange

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Christl Prange (born May 27, 1937 as Christl Lucas in Erfurt ) is a German artist and tapestry weaver.

Life

Christl Prange grew up in Erfurt and after graduating from high school completed a three-year apprenticeship as a hand weaver with the Bauhaus student Margaretha Reichardt in Erfurt- Bischleben . She then studied from 1958 to 1964 at Giebichenstein Castle in Halle (Saale) . In 1962 she voluntarily interrupted her studies for a year to expand her knowledge of the textile industry. After graduating, Christl Prange worked from 1964 to 1966 as chairwoman of a hand weaving cooperative in Rostock . She married the veterinarian and later Professor Hartwig Prange and has two daughters with him. Several moves were associated with her husband's work. The family lived from 1966 to 1967 in Groß Mohrdorf near Stralsund , from 1967 to 1979 in Eberswalde , from 1979 to 1996 in Jena and since 1996 in Halle (Saale).

Act

Christl Prange has been living as a freelance visual artist, author and jury member since 1966. She does the rare work of picture knitting and in this context also deals with the design of parament . In 1966 she designed and woven a green antependium for the church in Groß-Mohrdorf and took part in the competition for the castle church in Wittenberg (purple antependium). In Jena, too, the artist designed tapestries for public institutions and various churches and woven some of them herself. Some of the carpets for the churches were made with the Jena textile artist Barbara Schröder, others were woven by the parament workshop in Eisenach .

Christl Prange is a member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists, the Marienberg Association for Protestant Paramentics (since 1998) and the Thuringian textile artist group TAT. In 1989 she received a scholarship in Riga, Latvia.

In Jena, Christl Prange ran the small gallery of the Kulturbund der GDR together with her husband from 1981 to 1988 (34 exhibitions) and directed the advanced training for female circle leaders in Rudolstadt. In Erfurt and Halle she was active in the professional association of visual artists and was committed to the association's cultural work and to art in public spaces. In Halle in particular, the jury (activities in Erfurt, Halle, Berlin, Heidelberg, Dessau, among others), the authorship, the lecture work and the training work for the Paramentists were added.

In Halle, Christl Prange mainly designed antependums, some of which were created in collaboration with the parament workshop in Eisenach, such as B. the year-round grant 2002 (four liturgical colors in one piece) for the Wartburg in Eisenach. As an artist, she also worked on free drafts and sketches.

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions

Personal exhibitions in 1985 in Dornburg (Saale) in the Small Gallery in the Rococo Castle and in 1997 in the Open Workshop in Bürgel / Thuringia.

Participations (selection)

  • 1976 Bad Frankenhausen
  • 1977 VIII. German Art Exhibition Dresden
  • 1984 Szombathely / Hungary
  • 1985 Leipzig
  • 1989 Riga / Latvia
  • 1992 Gotha
  • 1993 Wiesbaden
  • 2006 Magdeburg
  • 2012 Yerevan / Armenia
  • 2013 Freyburg an der Unstrut

Working in museums and collections

  • 1989/90 Museum of Applied Arts, Gera "Transparency in the grid"
  • 1984 Savaria - Museum, Szombathely / Hungary, miniature embroidery
  • 1989 Latvian Cultural Fund, Riga / Latvia, tapestry "Northern Lights"
  • 2002 Wartburg Foundation , Eisenach, year-round grant

Works in public space

  • 1974/75 tapestry, Westendkino / Vocational School Center, Eberswalde
  • 1977 tapestry, Strausberg registry office
  • 1978 Vocational school of the meat combine Eberswalde
  • 1979/80 tapestry, town hall Frankfurt (Oder)
  • 1979 Tapestry for an FDGB holiday home in Altenhof / Werbellinsee.

Antependia and carpets for churches etc.

  • 1991 Protestant church Nonnenweier
  • 1992 for the Diakonisches Werk in Berlin
  • 1992/95 City Church St. Michael and other churches in Jena
  • 2002 Eisenach / Wartburg - chapel
  • 2007/08 Regulator - Erfurt Church
  • 2010/12 Oude Kerk Soest / NL.

Exhibition openings / own texts (selection)

  • 1995 Margaretha Reichardt "Textile Art", Erfurt
  • 2002 ADA gallery in Meiningen, artist from Thuringia - Hildegard Treß
  • 2005 Symposium “Light and Light”, catalog text and exhibition opening, Villa

Kobe, hall

  • 2009 “Student of Margareta Reichardt”, Apolda Bell Museum , opening
  • 2004 and 2009 Textilforum Hannover (Josefine Cyranka, Margaretha Reichardt)
  • Admission lectures in Eisenach, Halle, Stendal.

Catalogs and newspaper articles

  • 1978 VIII. German Art Exhibition Dresden
  • 1985 Experiments, Museum of Arts and Crafts in Ferber's House, Gera
  • 1992 TAT group in Suhl
  • 1993 shape and function - arts and crafts in Thuringia;
  • 1993 Nm 10/5 , group TAT International Symposium Gernewitz / Jena
  • 2012 Call and art - tapestries from Halle, Yerevan / Armenia
  • 1988 (leaflet) handicrafts in the castle cellar - iga Erfurt
  • 1990 (leaflet) Jenaer Kunsthandwerk & Formgestaltung, Jena-Lobeda
  • 1998 (leaflet) TAT group in the Berlin-Spandau citadel
  • 1989 (poster) III. International Symposium, Dzintary / Riga
  • 2003 Faith and Home / Newspaper - "With a long tradition - Burning thorn bush"
  • 2013 Thür. State newspaper, diaries and pictures by Erika John, Jena
  • 2013 Jenapolis / Jena, book presentation and reading by Erika John

literature

  • Author collective: Handicrafts of the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR, Gallery Lobeda-West. Municipal museums, Jena 1985.
  • New art in old walls. 20 years of the Romanesque Road. Exhibition catalog. Professional Association of Visual Artists Saxony-Anhalt e. V., 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Closing of the Reformation year at www.westthueringen-online.de, October 21, 2017, accessed on April 11, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Prange, Christl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucas, Christl (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt