Dagmar Ranft ham

Dagmar Ranft-Schinke (born April 10, 1944 in Chemnitz ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

After graduating from high school, she began an apprenticeship as a skilled worker as a graphic artist in 1961, which she completed in 1963. This was followed by studies at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig , with Werner Tübke , Hans Mayer-Foreyt , Harry Blume ; She completed her diploma as a graphic designer with Wolfgang Mattheuer . From 1968 Ranft-Schinke worked as a freelancer in what was then Karl-Marx-Stadt, now Chemnitz, and became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . In 1977 she founded the artist group and producer gallery Clara Mosch together with Carlfriedrich Claus , Michael Morgner , Thomas Ranft and Gregor-Thorsten Schade , to which she belonged until it was dissolved in 1982. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1992, she collaborated with the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing in Darmstadt to create her "Walk-in Pictures", an interactive computer-aided art. These are exhibited at CeBit in 1996. In 1994 she went on a study trip to South America on the trail of the Incas (Colombia, Peru, Bolivia). From 1997 onwards, many pictures, graphics and texts on the topic of "the biotechnical age" were created. a. around the imaginary "Prof. Smith ". The first metal objects were created in 2001, mainly with her favorite motif, the Pegasus. In 2007 she took part in the German Werkbund exhibition "Shaping Change". a. with thoughts on the city of the future (“Urban Agriculture”). In 2012 a study trip to Tibet takes place. The Chemnitz Art Collections are honoring her in 2017 with a large exhibition of her watercolors. At the beginning of 2018, she will close the cycle around “Prof. Smith ”.

Honors

• 1984 FDGB art award for 100 selected graphics
• 1997 Brandenburg Culture Prize "Sun Sail Ring"

Works (selection)

• 1969 Pegasus vision and man-nature
• 1977 Inca reflections, later Pre-Columbian reflections until 1992
• 1980 Pictures on the subject of genetic engineering ( dream of the geneticist among others Drosophila or the temptation )
• 1985 Fanal
• 1992 work on accessible images with the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing Darmstadt (cyberspace, interactive art)
• 1995 The March , Reaction to the First Chechen War
• 2008 The shaman's old memory
• 2016 Just a moment

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1977, 1982, 1987 art exhibition of the GDR
• 1974, 1979, 1985 district art exhibition in Karl-Marx-Stadt
• 2017 Chemnitz art collections
• also participation in national and international exhibitions, among others in Bulgaria, France, Finland, Great Britain, Italy, Peru, Poland, Portugal, USA, Hungary.

literature

• Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 740 ff .
• Lothar Lang: Painting and graphics in East Germany . Verlag Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-932545-97-4 .
• Georg Brühl, Lothar Lang: Graphics in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . In: Fine arts . No. 3 . Henschel-Verlag, 1977, ISSN  0006-2391 , p. 122 ff .

Web links

• Homepage: http://www.dagmar-ranft-schinke.de/
• Literature by and about Dagmar Ranft-Schinke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Search for Dagmar Ranft-Schinke in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Biography at Gallery Five Senses ( Memento from January 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )