Dorothea Prühl

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Dorothea Prühl (born February 22, 1937 in Breslau ) is a German jewelry artist and university professor . She lives and works in Halle (Saale) and in Augustenberg in Mecklenburg.

life and work

After fleeing and the chaos of war, Dorothea Prühl experienced her late childhood and youth in a small village in Brandenburg. She completed a one-year internship in the workshops of the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle and studied there from 1957 to 1962. Important teachers were Karl Müller , who accepted her in the metal class, and Lothar Zitzmann in the basic course. After completing her studies, Dorothea Prühl worked until 1965 as a designer for series jewelry at VEB Gablona jewelry in Neuheim, a district of Jüterbog . In 1966 she accepted the offer for a teaching position at Burg Giebichenstein and went back to Halle. Together with Renate Heintze, she worked on a new training concept that - contrary to the prescribed orientation towards design and without the ballast of artistic values ​​- is aimed at unique items. The jewelry class consolidated itself at the art college in Halle in 1974 as an independent subject. Dorothea Prühl headed the class from 1994 as a professor until she retired in 2002.

“Dorothea Prühl is one of the leading jewelry artists today. Abstract impressions from nature, concentration on the essentials, high sensitivity and plastic power characterize her artistic attitude. It creates fundamental statements in gold and silver - but also in wood, aluminum, titanium or stainless steel - impressions that manifest themselves in generous and clear bodies. It starts from what is already there, traces its innermost, the core, and gives this essentiality a new aesthetic language - that can be a flower, the wind, a house, birds in flight… ”.

The artist is represented by the Marzee Gallery.

Working in public collections

  • CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, NL
  • Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, USA
  • Die Neue Sammlung - The International Design Museum Munich, permanent loan from the Danner Foundation, Munich, D
  • GRASSI Museum for Applied Arts, Leipzig, D
  • Saxony-Anhalt Cultural Foundation - Moritzburg Art Museum Halle (Saale), D
  • Marzee Collection, Nijmegen, NL
  • Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, F
  • Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, D
  • Röhsska Museet / The Röhsska Museum of Design, Fashion and Decorative Arts, Göteborg, S
  • Rotasa Trust Collection, California, USA
  • Collection Burg Giebichenstein Art College Halle, D
  • Jewelry Museum Pforzheim, D
  • Berlin State Museums, Museum of Applied Arts, D
  • The Helen Williams Drutt Collection / The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
  • The Hiko Mizuno Collection of Jewelry, Tokyo, J.
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art / The Donna Schneier Collection, New York, USA
  • The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, USA
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB

Honors

Monographs on Dorothea Prühl

  • Part of the whole. Jewelry by Dorothea Prühl. Renate Luckner-Bien [ed.], Halle an der Saale 1996
  • 13 necklaces - jewelry by Dorothea Prühl. With a text by Christiane Keisch. Renate Luckner-Bien [ed.], Halle an der Saale 2000, 2nd revised edition: Marie-José van den Hout [ed.], Halle an der Saale and Nijmegen 2004 ( ISBN 90-73124-115 )
  • Catalog raisonné - jewelry by Dorothea Prühl. With a text by Ellen Maurer Zilioli, Katja Schneider [ed.], Moritzburg Foundation - Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Halle an der Saale 2004 ( ISBN 3-86105-142-7 )
  • Dorothea Prühl - Necklaces. With texts by Florian Hufnagl and Renate Luckner-Bien. Florian Hufnagl [ed.], ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-89790-301-2 )

Literature on the jewelry class at the Kunsthochschule Halle under the direction of Dorothea Prühl (selection)

  • Schmuck Burg Giebichenstein 1970 - 1992. Ed .: Grassimuseum Leipzig - Museum of Arts and Crafts, Leipzig / Stuttgart 1992
  • Giebichenstein Castle - jewelry from the Halle school. Gallery for applied arts Munich from July 22nd to September 10th 1994. Issue 11 of the series of publications of the Bavarian Arts and Crafts Association
  • Jewelry Burg Giebichenstein 1970–1992. Grassimuseum Leipzig - Museum of Arts and Crafts [ed.], Leipzig / Stuttgart 1992
  • Field trial. Work by teachers and students from 1996 to 1998. Jewelry department, Burg Giebichenstein - University of Art and Design Halle. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Marzee Gallery, Nijmegen, from March 22nd to May 31st, 1998 ..: Burg Giebichenstein - University of Art and Design Halle [Hg.], Halle 1998
  • Jewelry from the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. Exhibition in the Saarländisches Künstlerhaus from June 21 to August 5, 2001. Saarbrücken 2001
  • Collection field test - class Dorothea Prühl. The Marzee Collection / Edition No. 1. Marie-José van den Hout [ed.], Nijmegen 2004
  • Pensieri preziosi 4. Gioielli natura. Dorothea Prühl e la scuola di Halle (Catalogo della mostra 18 December 2008-1 March 2009), edited by Mirella Cisotto Nalon, Oratorio di San Rocco, Padova 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Marzee Gallery
  3. ↑ Gallery of Prize Winners - Bavarian State Prize 2005–2010. In: hwk-muenchen.de. Chamber of Crafts for Munich and Upper Bavaria, accessed on December 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Art Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt 2019 goes to Dorothea Prühl. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Prühl, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jewelry artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw