Claus Leichsenring

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Claus Leichsenring (born January 31, 1943 ) is a German woodcarver and local researcher .

Live and act

The former vocational school teacher Leichsenring from Leukersdorf (subjects mathematics and physics) is considered to be one of the best connoisseurs of the Erzgebirge folk art . He is the author of numerous specialist articles and books on local and folklore topics. As chairman of the district working group carving / wood design at the council of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district as well as the district working group carving at the Kulturbund of the GDR , he was awarded the prize for artistic folk creation 1st class in 1986. For his research on the Erzgebirge Christmas pyramids , published in 2009 , he was awarded the Saxon State Prize for Local Research in autumn 2011 . In March 2012 he was awarded the Golden Carving Knife of the Ore Mountains Association in recognition of his life's work as part of the Ore Mountains Carving Days in Annaberg-Buchholz .

Leichsenring is chairman of the Leukersdorfer Schnitzverein, one of the co-founders of the Association of Ore Mountain Wood Carvers as well as a member of the editorial board of the Ore Mountain Home Papers .

Works

  • Erzgebirge place pyramids: observation, analysis, documentation. Schneeberg: Center for the maintenance of the Erzgebirge and Vogtland folklore at the district cabinet for cultural work Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1980 (= Glückauf, 1).
  • Carved from wood: methodological tips for creative design. Leipzig: Zentralhaus-Publ., 1984.
  • Mass figures from the Ore Mountains. Dresden: Saxon Printing and Publishing House, 1997. ISBN 3-929048-27-2
  • Harry Schmidt : carve my world; Contribution to the history of the Erzgebirge carving. Schneeberg: Saxon State Office for Folk Culture, 2004.
  • Christmas Mountains & Heimatberge: a contribution to the history of folk culture in the Saxon Ore Mountains. Chemnitz: Gumnior, 2004. ISBN 3-937386-08-4
  • Christmas pyramids of the Ore Mountains: development, design, manufacture. Husum: Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 2009, 2nd, changed edition. 2016. ISBN 978-3-86530-124-6
  • Chandelier miner - miner's chandelier: carved, turned, molded from mass. Husum: Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 2019. ISBN 978-3-86530-249-6

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland, April 7, 1986, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Heimatforscher: First prize goes to the Erzgebirge. , in: Freie Presse , Stollberg local edition of October 29, 2011, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Saxon State Prize for Local Research 2011 , accessed on June 30, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Heimatkenner receives award. , in: Freie Presse, Schwarzenberg local edition of March 6, 2012, p. 13.
  5. ↑ Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter - magazine for Heimatfreunde, published by Kulturbund Landesverband Sachsen e. V., Marienberg, issue 2/2018, p. 33
personal data
SURNAME Leichsenring, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wood carver and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1943