Dorothea Chabert

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Ironing jug, stoneware

Dorothea Chabert (* 1931 in Berlin as Dorothea Tabert ) is a ceramic artist who lived and worked in Wolfsburg (Lower Saxony) until 2015 . In 1972 she came to the city and lived for over 20 years in the west wing of Wolfsburg Castle , where she founded her fourth ceramic workshop. From 1991 to 2015 her workshop was located in the Remise at Wolfsburg Castle.

She was a member of the artist group Schloßstraße 8, which was given premises at Wolfsburg Castle in the early 1960s. This group of artists no longer exists today.

Dorothea Chabert completed her training at the Berlin Art Academy with a state examination and master's degree. She masters the entire process of ceramic production from the mining of suitable clays to the extraction of glazes and shaping and glazing to firing. For over eight years she taught at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig . At Wolfsburg Castle, she created a timeless ceramic work through glaze experiments. So far she has carried out over 80 exhibitions at home and abroad and has an intensive exchange with artists from Japan . Her son Simon follows in her footsteps and is a recognized ceramic artist who combines Far Eastern and European traditions. According to her, the bowls, mugs, cups, vases and other everyday objects should above all be functional and not just exude aesthetics.

Numerous exhibitions outside Wolfsburg as well as their annual workshop exhibitions round off their work. In 2007/2008 a touring exhibition with her work entitled Objects born not made was shown in Braunschweig, Fürstenberg and Wolfsburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heino R. Möller: Dorothea Chabert: Gefäßkeramik. Works after 1970 *. (PDF; 138 kB) (No longer available online.) In: hbk-bs.de. University of Fine Arts Braunschweig, March 12, 2007, archived from the original on October 25, 2016 ; accessed on October 25, 2016 (* should originally appear in issue 4/2006 of the magazine KERAMOS of the Gesellschaft der Keramikfreunde e.V. ).
  2. ↑ Dorothea Chabert: Objects born not made . 50 years of ceramic work - a retrospective. D. Chabert (self-published), Alt-Wolfsburg 2007, DNB  990011208 , p. 135 (exhibition catalog with vita; exhibition locations: Braunschweig Formsammlung, May 10 – August 5, 2007; Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory in Fürstenberg, October 19, 2007– February 28, 2008; Städtische Galerie Schloss Wolfsburg, Alt-Wolfsburg, 2008).
  3. ↑ Hans Karweik: The stove has gone out. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten . November 30, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Dorothea Chabert / ceramic workshop. In: schulen.wolfsburg.de. Retrieved June 4, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Kulturportal - Simon Chabert | Handicrafts | Wolfsburg. In: kulturportal.de. Retrieved September 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Chabert, Dorothea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tabert, Dorothea (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ceramic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin