Emerita Pansowová

Emerita Pansowová, 2012

Emerita Pansowová , née Molnárová (* 1946 in Vrakúň , Czechoslovakia) is a German-Slovakian sculptor who has lived in Berlin since 1967 and has created numerous sculptures for public spaces.

Life

Until she was 21, she grew up in Czechoslovakia with her parents in Bratislava . 1962–1966 she studied wood carving at the School of Applied Arts in Bratislava . Her teachers were L. Korkoš and A. Drexler. In 1964 she met the graphic artist Jürgen Pansow , married him in 1966 and the couple moved to East Berlin . Here she continued her artistic training at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art with Karl-Heinz Schamal and Arnd Wittig . Then Pansowová became a master student of Ludwig Engelhardt at the Academy of Arts of the GDR . After obtaining her diploma, she was able to produce numerous commissioned works for districts in East Berlin. She has been a freelance artist since 1990, working in stone, with bronze and experimenting with other materials. She is friends with the sculptor Wieland Schmiedel and the painter Heidrun Hegewald . In 1980 Emerita Pansowová met Gabriele and Susanne Mucchi and their friends.

Awards, grants, competitions

• 1975: Gustav Weidanz Prize for sculpture from Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle
• 1977: Study visit to the Azerbaijan SSR , together with Malwine Hörisch, Lutz Friedel and Lusici
• 1985: Will Lammert Prize of the Academy of the Arts
• 1989: Art Prize of the Trade Unions; 1st prize in the competition for foyer design at the Kleist Memorial Frankfurt / Oder
• 1991: Scholarship from the Senate Department for Culture, Berlin
• 1992: Working grant from the Kulturfonds Foundation
• 1994: Sculpture symposium in Remschutz-Saalfeld
• 2003: together with Winfried Ebner realization competition for the fountain for the Stralsund old market and the Steintorplatz in Bernau near Berlin
• 2009: Brandenburg Art Prize for Sculpture from the Märkische Oderzeitung

Works (selection)

• 1978: Squatting girl , sandstone, Humannplatz location in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
• 1980: Walkers : bronze , 180 cm tall, location Allee der Kosmonauten in Marzahn in the Heinz-Graffunder-Park
• 1982: still life. A laid table , a bronze drip fountain, 160 cm tall, location at Allee der Kosmonauten 58
• 1982: Strider , a plaster sculpture, 180 cm tall
• 1989: Heirs of the Spartakus fighters : sandstone , two individual figures and a relief on Möllendorffstraße in Berlin-Lichtenberg ,
• 1994: Father and son : bronze, 160 cm tall, location Trusetaler Strasse / Schleusinger Strasse in Marzahn
• 1995: Crouching , a bronze sculpture, 135 cm tall
• 1997: On the beach , a bronze sculpture, 23 cm tall
• 2003: Standing girl , a plaster sculpture, 75 cm tall
• 2006: Siblings , a sandstone relief, 120 × 70 × 40 cm in size
• 2011: Mother with child , sandstone figure, in front of the entrance to the church in Biesenthal; the 250 kg heavy sculpture is part of a new sculpture trail.
• 2011: In becoming (childhood) .
  As part of the International Sculpture Symposium Stones Without Borders , organized by the city of Bernau near Berlin in 2011, she created a roughly structured human figure from shell limestone based on her own template from gneiss .
• 1995/2012: Gret Palucca : bronze, 45 cm tall, location Nationalgalerie Berlin .
  For the Mitte district, Pansowová made a life-size sculpture of the famous artist based on the figure mentioned here. On the initiative of the Poll Art Foundation and with financial help from the DGB , this was set up in January 2012 on the Garrison Church Square.
  This sculpture was then loaned to the newly established Palucca Foundation and erected on the university campus in Dresden .

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  "Woman lying down with child"
  1984

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  "Heirs of the Spartacus Fighters"
  1989

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  Plastic "father and son"
  1994

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  "The great Palucca"
  2010

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1975: State Gallery Moritzburg, Halle
• 1982: Archaic and Modern , Altes Museum, Berlin
• 1985: Gallery Poll, Berlin
• 1987: Galerie am Prater, Berlin
• 1988: Mensch Figur Raum , Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
• 1991: Gallery Dr. Christiane Müller, Berlin
• 1995: Bernau Gallery
• 1997: Ribnitz Damgarten Gallery
• 1998: Galerie Mitte, Berlin
• 2000: The Torso , Galerie am Wasserturm, Berlin
• 2001: Greifen-Galerie, Greifswald
• 2002: TU Berlin , Mathematical Library
• 2003: On our own behalf - painters, graphic artists, sculptors: Galerie im Kunsthof Hintersdorf, Berlin
• 2004: Gallery under the water tower, Neuenhagen; Gallery Slovak Institute in Berlin
• 2005: Prenden , village church
• 2006: EBE Gallery Parchim; Red Tower, Jenauer Kunstverein
• 2010: In the middle of the room - sculptures by Emerita Pansowova , Kunstparkhaus EWE, Strausberg
• 2011: Open Atelier, Barnim; Art-city-landscape , gallery in the town hall Biesenthal

From 1982 Emerita Pansowová participated successfully in group exhibitions several times.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Complete directory of art in public space , item 103 at Kulturamt Pankow
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Art in the large housing estate. Works of art in public spaces in Marzahn and Hellersdorf . A documentation; Edited by BA Marzahn-Hellersdorf; Page 75 and page 182; ISBN 978-3-00-026730-7
3. ↑ Image (detail) of the sculpture on flickr
4. ^ Sylvia Brösicke-Istok, Gabriela Ivan, Romy Köcher, Hans Schlegel: sculptures, monuments, fountains in Berlin; Lichtenberg ; Catalog 1993, Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein eV, ISBN 3-89542-012-3 ; Möllendorffstrasse: p. 26
5. ↑ Sculpture Path opens , article in the Märkische Oderzeitung on March 30, 2011 , accessed on January 17, 2012
6. ↑ Sculpture Symposium Stones Without Borders with details on Im Werden , accessed on January 17, 2012
7. ↑ Ingeborg Ruthe: Learning to fly. The garrison church square in Mitte now has a palucca bronze by the sculptor Emerita Pansowová . In: Berliner Zeitung of January 17, 2012; P. 21; Press release of the Poll Art Foundation including various newspaper reports ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Benefactress helps Palucca University to create a foundation  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , on Freie Presse , May 25, 2012; Retrieved July 2, 2012
9. ↑ Brief portrait of Pansowova with selected exhibitions

Web links

Commons : Emerita Pansowová  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Works by Emerita Pansowová (at the Poll gallery)