Gero Trauth

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Gero Trauth (born June 25, 1942 in Neurode , Glatz district , Lower Silesia ) is a German painter , graphic artist , porcelain illustrator and designer .

life and work

Gero Trauth was the only child of the physician Fritz Trauth and his wife Irene, nee. Jung (sister of Fritz Jung ), born. After the expulsion in 1946, the family came to West Germany and settled in Siegen .
Trauth is married and has two grown daughters.

education

Trauth's training began in 1959 with a traineeship in the Buchkunst-Eggebrecht-Presse in Mainz under Hans Schmidt . From 1960 to 1965 Trauth studied art , graphics and design at the Staatliche Werkkunstschule in Mainz (today Mainz University of Applied Sciences ) a. a. with Gedo Dotter Weich (1983–1986 President of the Deutscher Werkbund ) and Alfred Tilp, sculpture with Heinz Müller-Olm, writing and book history at Johannes Gutenberg University with Aloys Ruppel and history of book illustration with Helmut Presser, director of the Gutenberg Museum . The course was supplemented by seminars with Heinz Mack ( ZERO ), Herbert W. Kapitzki and Anton Stankowski . In 1965, Trauth graduated with distinction (honoring a delegation from the ministry through a special exhibition at the Staatliche Werkkunstschule).

Mentors and friends

In 1962, the designer Elsa Fischer-Treyden introduced Trauth to Bjørn Wiinblad . During his studies there were frequent stays in Copenhagen and Wiinblad became Trauth's artistic mentor and later friend.
Another friendship with frequent, extensive, mutual visits and working together in the same copper rotogravure printing workshop connected Trauth with the Swedish painter and graphic artist Gunnar Norrman, who died in 2005, and his wife Ulla.

Artistic work

Painting and design

From 1966, Trauth worked as a freelance painter and designer with a studio in Siegen. In 1972 his artistically designed house was designed and built. From 1967 to 1983 he created drawings, graphics and sculptures for international art houses such as Artes - Art of our World 1982–1989, ars mundi - the world of art 2018/2020 (including distribution of his sculpture Du ; in bronze and marble cast), as well as posters, Oil paintings and the illustrated books Lost Gardens and My Heart is a Star - images like dreams and fairy tales . His work as a designer included faience (Staatliche Majolika Manufaktur, Karlsruhe), fabric collections (Stuttgarter Curtinenfabrik, Taunus Textildruck), lights ( Bundesgartenschau Dortmund, Ambiente-Messen Frankfurt a. M.), cutlery ( GUM department store ), planters ( Eternit AG ), Stainless steel and ceramic decorations on public buildings and designs for the furniture industry. In 2000 an exhibition building (Gero-Trauth-Haus) was opened in Siegen.

Porcelain illustration

1983 began the extremely productive collaboration with Villeroy & Boch / Heinrich-Porzellan in Selb , which lasted until 1997. During this time, Trauth had a decisive influence on the Heinrich porcelain product range. The exclusive service collections were looked after by Trauth and Paloma Picasso , whose series of objects Paloma Picasso - Suite de Vases was decorated by Trauth. He also designed bone china tableware ( Vie Sauvage , Arabian Fantasy and Happy Seasons ). A large number of gift items bears his signature, including the exclusive porcelain object series Magnum (1990).
Trauth also illustrated porcelain series for the WWF ( Symbiose Mensch - Natur , 1990) and the German Cancer Aid ( Träumereien , 1995). Furthermore, Russian series of motifs ( magical fairy tales from Old Russia , fairy tales of the Volga , The Dreams of Katharina ) as well as series on other topics ( magical world of the arena , lovers of world literature , annual Christmas plates), which during these 14 years in Europe (International Frankfurt Fairs ) and in the USA (Southbend Fair, Chicago ), V&B, Madison Avenue , New York .

Gero Trauth House

Gero Trauth House

In 2003 the new exhibition pavilion Gero Trauth Haus (formerly Cappella Gero Trauth ) was built in Siegen. This building was designed by Trauth, represents a total work of art inside and out and stands for a symbiosis of works of world literature and Trauth's art, which is intended as a refuge for his collectors; the ZDF and 3sat reported on it ( "... a marble hall of unusual architecture and beauty" ).

Awards and honors

  • 1957 Winner in a drawing competition for self-portraits by Stern magazine (Jan. 12, 1957).
  • 1964 Design award winner (wrapping paper design competition) from the Swedish company Åkerlund & Rausing.
  • 1969 Die gute Form design award at the International Frankfurt Fair for seven company products designed by him.
  • 1990 Admission of Trauth's porcelain objects to the Mettlach Ceramic Museum .
  • 2004 Inclusion of the work All Our Dreams in the Museum of the Royal Academy of Music , Foyle Menuhin Archive (No. 2005.2566), London .
  • 2006 Recording of the cassette work Heinrich Heine: Book of Songs 1827 in the Heinrich Heine Institute of the state capital Düsseldorf .

bibliography

  • Lost Gardens - an illustrated book , Rettmer and Luy, Karlsruhe 1979, 2nd edition 1982
  • My heart is a star - pictures like dreams and fairy tales , an illustrated book, Im Haus der Sterne 1998, ISBN 3-000-02785-8
  • The book for the book of songs - all illustrations for Heinrich Heine's book of songs, Cappella Gero Trauth 2006
  • The book about the snowflake - all pictures of Alexander Ostrowski's Sneguročka / snowflake, Cappella Gero Trauth 2009

Directories and dictionaries

  • Inclusion in Collector Editions / Spring 1986, Collector Communications-Corp, NY.
  • A.-A. Ziese general encyclopedia of artists in the fine arts in the late XX. Century , Vol. 2, No. 82005, Verlag arte factum, Nuremberg (1986/87).
  • Inclusion in the American porcelain magazine Plate World ( Who's Who among Artists ) (1987).
  • Inclusion in The Bradford Book of Collector's Plates (1988).

Individual evidence and explanations

  1. ↑ Laudators: Dietrich Mattausch , Fritz B. Simon and Klaus Gerdes
  2. ↑ March 26, 2006 Excursion into the realm of poetry - The Cappella Gero Trauth
  3. ↑ Vernissage on March 12, 2005; five laudators, including Joseph Anton Kruse , director of the Heinrich Heine Institute in Düsseldorf and Bernd Faulenbach , historian and honorary professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum ; Interlude with Martin Panteleev (violin)
  4. ↑ Vernissage on November 15, 2008; four laudators, including Alexander Graf, professor for Slavic literature at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and Barbara Gobrecht, storyteller at the University of St. Gallen ; Interlude with Martin Panteleev (violin) and Lida Kantcheva (piano).
  5. ↑ Vernissage on March 31, 2012; five laudators, including Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer , Prof. em. for English studies and general literature at the University of Siegen ; Interlude with dolphins Guevar (soprano) and Daniel Isoir ( fortepiano )
  6. ↑ Vernissage on March 30, 2013; three laudators, including Michael Hahn , Prof. em. for Indology and Tibetology at the Philipps University in Marburg ; Interlude with Sheila Arnold (piano) and Meera Varghese (soprano, Indian dance)

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personal data
SURNAME Trauth, Gero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Neurode , district of Glatz