Hans-Georg Losert

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Hans-Georg Losert (* 1939 in Halberstadt ) is a German glazier , glass painter and freelance glass restorer . Now in the fourth generation, the Losert family is continuing the tradition of Halberstadt glass painting. In 2002 the family business celebrated its 100th anniversary.

Hans-Georg Losert (born 1939), around 1960

Life and professional history

Ball on wave, 1976, duplicate 2014

At the age of 14, Hans-Georg Losert began his apprenticeship as a glazier in his grandfather's company in his native Halberstadt . The apprenticeship was followed by short years of traveling and a traineeship as a glass painter in the workshops of Mencke in Goch and Derix in Kevelaer on the Lower Rhine. Five years after successfully completing his training, he passed the master craftsman's examination at the District Chamber of Crafts in Magdeburg in 1960 . Due to the lack of a business permit, Losert decided to study glass technology in Weißwasser and worked for several years as an engineer for glassworks technology in Derenburg and Aken . After the Derenburg glass factory was taken over as a studio by the Halle University of Industrial Design (Burg Giebichenstein) , he worked here as artistic director and production manager. In addition to his first teaching position at the university mentioned, he began a distance learning course with Rudolf Sitte in the field of applied craftsmanship (vessel and surface design). Due to the takeover of a glass painting company in Quedlinburg by the art college, Losert was appointed as a university teacher in 1972 with the supervision of all glass companies in Quedlinburg, Halle and Derenburg . One year later, in December 1973, Hans-Georg Losert received his trade license through recognition as a craftsman. Since then he has “devoted himself to the refinement of light with his work.” Up until this point, he had not had any training in restoration in his professional career. Since restorers were not trained in the field of glass painting in the GDR , skills and abilities first had to develop and grow in the practical handling of the works of art and through exchange with art scholars in this specialty. Losert was able to rely on his engineering knowledge and experience in the glassworks for restoration measures to safeguard the existence of glass and ceramic colors . In 1987 she was accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR. This approved freelance work in the GDR. In July 1987, Losert asked to be released from management duties in the university's glass factory in order to work as a freelance restorer. He held his teaching position at the University of Art and Design in Halle until his retirement in September 2001. One of his most important tasks as a restorer was the preservation of the picture windows in Halberstadt Cathedral .

Family and company history

The family business was founded by Hans-Georg Losert's grandfather, Georg Losert. As part of his activities as an external assembly manager for the Krohne glazier in Celle , he stayed in Halberstadt for a long time. There he opened a picture frame workshop on April 2, 1902 at Schmiedstrasse 11. In the following year, a picture shop followed. The move to his own glazier took place in 1906 with the purchase and expansion of the house of the late Halberstadt master glazier Gorges at Franziskanerstraße 18. Siegfried Losert, Hans-Georg Loser's father, who completed his training in his father's company, passed his training on May 27, 1932 Master's examination. Until the company was destroyed by the Halberstadt bombardment on April 8, 1945, the family business expanded to include an art shop and a car glass shop. As part of the expansion of the business after the Second World War , Gertrud Losert, sister of Siegfried Losert, opened a new shop on August 1, 1945. This existed until the old age-related business closure in 1968. The policy of the GDR towards craft businesses was extremely restrictive. With the establishment of the PGH Glas (Production Cooperative of the Crafts) Siegfried Losert - the son Georg Losert, who had meanwhile taken over the company - joined the glazier in 1959. The glass painting, which had played a subordinate role in Siegfried Losert's work and in which the PGH was not interested, was kept by Hans-Georg Losert, Georg's grandson, who at that time was already completing the master’s school and a year later passed the master’s examination for glass painting . The son Birk-Andreas Losert passed his exam as a restorer in May 1999. The family business, which has now been in existence for over 100 years, still exists today in the form of a studio community.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1980: Restored works of art . Altes Museum , Berlin, Germany
  • 1981: vessels, objects, glass painting . Halberstadt, Germany
  • 1982: Medieval stained glass in Halberstadt Cathedral. Chronicle of a restoration . City Museum Halberstadt, Halberstadt, Germany
  • 1985: artist of the region . Halberstadt, Germany
  • 1989: Medieval stained glass . Angermuseum Erfurt , Erfurt, Germany
  • 1991/93: artists of the region . Halberstadt, Germany
  • 2000: Participation in an exhibition. Museum of Applied Arts Gera , Gera, Germany
  • 2001: Participation in an exhibition. Landesmuseum Koblenz , Koblenz, Germany
  • 2002: Exhibition for the 100th anniversary of the Losert company . Martinikirche Halberstadt , Halberstadt, Germany
  • 2006: artist from the twin town . Wolfsburg Castle , Wolfsburg, Germany
  • 2010: The state of affairs . VBK state exhibition. Magdeburg, Germany
  • 2014: light signals. Glass design by Hans-Georg and Birk-Andreas Losert . Gleimhaus , Halberstadt, Germany

Works

Burchard's window, east window in the north aisle of St. Andrew's Church in Halberstadt, 1985

Restorations (selection)

Profane glass designs

  • Bad Harzburg: train station, new creation for lost stained glass
  • Bad Lauchstädt: outdoor pool
  • Ballenstedt: Kraftverkehr Ballenstedt
  • Halberstadt: Hochbau GmbH, cemetery, mechanical engineering, Robotron, Tabacco, Martineum
  • Magdeburg: VEB chemical plant construction, CDU regional association
  • Osterwieck: library
  • Wernigerode: Deutsche Bank

Church window

  • 1976: Catholic Church, Langenweddingen, Germany
  • 1985: Andreas Church , Halberstadt, Germany
  • 1987: light band . Mourning Hall, Halberstadt, Germany
  • 1990: Katharinenkirche , Halberstadt, Germany
  • 1992: St. Jacobikirche, Bleckede / Lüneburg district, Germany
  • 1992: Laurentiuskirche Wehrstedt, Halberstadt, Germany
  • 1992: Evangelical Church, Wieglitz, Germany
  • 1999–2009: Martinikirche , Halberstadt, Germany
  • 2013: Dorfkirche, Eilsdorf, Germany

literature

  • Reimar F. Lacher: Losert - Halberstadt glass art in four generations. In: Reimar F. Lacher (Ed.): Lichtzeichen. Glass design by Hans-Georg and Birk-Andreas Losert . Gleimhaus, Halberstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-946220-00-8 , pp. 8-17.
  • Hans-Georg Losert: From a craft business to a studio community. Thoughts on the 100th anniversary of Losert. In: Between resin and breakage. Home magazine of the district of Halberstadt Harz. Third row, 27, 2002, pp. 27-31.
  • Gotthart Voß: Hans-Georg Losert as a restorer. In: Reimar F. Lacher (Ed.): Lichtzeichen. Glass design by Hans-Georg and Birk-Andreas Losert . Gleimhaus, Halberstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-946220-00-8 , pp. 18-19.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Georg Losert: From craft business to studio community. Thoughts on the 100th anniversary of Losert. In: Between resin and breakage. Home magazine of the district of Halberstadt Harz. Volume 27, 2002, p. 27.
  2. ^ Gotthart Voß: Hans-Georg Losert as a restorer. In: Reimar F. Lacher (Ed.): Lichtzeichen. Glass design by Hans-Georg and Birk-Andreas Losert . Gleimhaus, Halberstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-946220-00-8 , p. 18.
  3. ^ Reimar F. Lacher: Losert - Halberstädter Glass Art in Four Generations. In: Reimar F. Lacher (Ed.): Lichtzeichen. Glass design by Hans-Georg and Birk-Andreas Losert. Gleimhaus, Halberstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-946220-00-8 , p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Losert, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glazier, glass painter and glass restorer
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt