Dorothea Zech

Dorothea Zech (born March 9, 1929 in Aachen ; † October 27, 2017 ) was a German textile designer .

Life

Dorothea Zech passed the Abitur in Sankt Ingbert in 1949 and studied at the State School for Arts and Crafts in Saarbrücken , today's Saar College of Fine Arts . She learned picture embroidery and painting with the textile artist Ella Broesch and Boris Kleint . After her final exam in 1953, she took her master craftsman examination as a textile craftsman in Aachen with a special permit in 1954.

In 1955, Zech opened her own workshop in Sankt Ingbert, which she later moved to Saarbrücken and in 1966 to the house built by Hanns Schönecker in Heusweiler . She designed 60 antependia , 52 church vestments and a total of around 400 wall hangings for public and sacred spaces.

Works in sacred space (selection)

• Early 1960s: Saarbrücken-Rastpfuhl, Catholic parish church St. Antonius
• 1960: Idar-Oberstein , church
• 1962: Riegelsberg, Evangelical Church
• 1966: St. Wendel , Hospital Church
• 1966: Saarbrücken, Friedenskirche
• 1968: Riegelsberg, Catholic parish church St. Matthias
• 1968: Waldfischbach-Burgalben, pilgrimage church Maria Rosenberg
• 1974: Saarbrücken-Eschberg, Ev. Maria Magdalenen Church
• 1974: Saarbrücken-St. Johann, Old Evangelical Church
• 1974: Adelschlag, church
• 1978: Odelzhausen, church
• 1979: Homburg Beeden, Evangelical Church
• 1979: Munich- Allach, church
• 1979: Munich-Berg a. Laim, Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent-of-Paul
• 1989: Saarbrücken-Rodenhof, Evangelical Church
• 1992: Altenkessel, Evangelical Church
• 2000: Losheim , Evangelical Church
• 2001: Schaffhausen , Evangelical Church

Awards

• 1964: Promotion Prize Rhineland-Palatinate Saar
• 1966: Bavarian State Prize for Young Designers
• 2009: Golden Master's Certificate from the Saarland Chamber of Crafts

Solo exhibitions

• 1991: Textile wall designs, coffee house gallery, Ommersheim
• 1996: Transparency and Color, Old Castle, Dillingen / Saar
• 1997: Small gallery on the hill, Mandelbachtal
• 1999: Creativa Dortmund
• 2000: textile art. My development over the past five years, Orangery, Blieskastel
• 2006: Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken (with Sofie Dawo )
• 2008/09: Retrospective, Chamber of Crafts Saarbrücken

literature

• Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland, archive, holdings Dorothea Zech (Dossier 1029)
• Jo Enzweiler: Saar artists lexicon. Artist sheet design Dorothea Zech . Saarbrücken 2011
• Sofie Dawo / Dorothea Zech: Two textile artists from Saarland . Catalog for the exhibition Sofie Dawo, Dorothea Zech - Two ways of textile design, July 20 - August 27, 2006 , Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken, 2006, ISBN 3-937046-80-1
• Soléau, Antje: Picturesque in condensed textiles: the textile artist Dorothea Zech. In: Textilkunst international: Information for creative design, Verlag M. & H. Schaper; Hanover, 2008, ISSN 0934-3342

Web links

• Institute for Current Art - Zech, Dorothea. In: institut-aktuelle-kunst.de. 
• Gabriele Scherer, Margarethe Kees, Annette Keinhorst, Petra Messinger: … groundbreaking (Fsg_wegweisend-Mehr-Frauenstrassennamen-Saarbruecken1.pdf). (PDF; 1.0 MB) In: Frauengenderbibliothek-saar.de. Women’s Views, 2011 . 
• Obituary notice (memorial page of Dorothea Zech | Saarbruecker-Zeitung.Trauer.de). In: saarbruecker-zeitung.trauer.de. November 11, 2017.