Heidi Manthey

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Heidi Manthey (born March 24, 1929 in Leipzig ) is a German ceramist and painter .

Her work mainly comprises unique faience and porcelain pieces, as well as a number of designs and décor designs for series production by the HB workshops for ceramics in Marwitz since 1976 . The revival of artistic faience painting and the further development of vessel shapes from the Renaissance and Baroque periods into a modern design language are characteristic of her life's work: “Manthey continues the tradition of fine, condensed faience painting (her teacher was Charles Crodel) on its very own historicizing vessel forms . "

Life

Heidi Manthey studied from 1946 to 1949 "Decorative Painting" with Walter Münze at the School of Applied Arts and painting and graphics with Max Schwimmer at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig. Then she completed a ceramics class at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle with Erika Gravenstein and Charles Crodel until 1952 , completing a pottery apprenticeship and journeyman's examination.

Her teacher Crodel recommended her to her friend Hedwig Bollhagen and her HB workshops for ceramics, founded in 1934 in Marwitz near Velten in Brandenburg, northeast of Berlin, to whose most important artistic collaborators he himself had been since the second half of the 1930s.

In 1956, Heidi Manthey became a freelancer at HB-Werkstätten, supported by Hedwig Bollhagen, who gave her very free work opportunities in the factory and also brokered orders for her. She created some designs for the serial production of HB workshops for ceramics.

From 1975 to 1980 Heidi Manthey had a teaching position for ceramic decoration at the Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee and from 1980 to 1997 a teaching position for ceramic decoration at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle (Saale). After Hedwig Bollhagen's death, Heidi Manthey became artistic director of the HB workshops for ceramics in 2001.

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Pottery and figural pottery

The way from the appropriation of foreign vessels to her own forms went hand in hand with the development of her painting. Inspired by the black-figure Greek vase painting, Heidi Manthey decorated series pieces from HB production with black engobe and sgraffito-like incisions.

In the 1960s, Heidi Manthey found the cobalt blue sharp fire painting on faience. Her finely modulating blue painting reached a high point in 1972 in a large faience sculpture with legendary figures from antiquity - the sirens in their malicious beauty become the constant in their world of figures - for the then Interhotel Karl-Marx-Stadt, now the Dorint Congress Hotel in Chemnitz. In addition to the sirens, figurative elements on vessels such as lizard handles are decisive for the vessel designs of vases and table centerpieces. In individual figures and decors, Heidi Manthey preferred to depict motifs from Ovid's Metamorphoses - Apollo and Daphne, Actaeon, etc. From around 1973–1975, Heidi Manthey expanded her color palette to include manganese, green and deep yellow on white faience glaze. As part of an order from the Staatl. Palaces and Gardens Potsdam-Sanssouci for the consoles of the Langhans Orangery in the New Garden, Heidi Manthey finally developed her characteristic “Manthey blue” glaze, with which she was able to achieve particularly effective color effects, in the tradition of the splendid Italian Renaissance majolica and Dutch faience with blue-colored "Berretino" stock and the German baroque faience with a so-called paste-blue glaze.

1980–1988 she realized an ensemble of 19 objects for the large buffet in the New Chambers of Potsdam-Sanssouci. With this, the palace administration opted for a contemporary, individual artistic design instead of a historical replacement of the original porcelain that had been lost due to the war: one of the boldest commissions for modern art in a historical environment that was ever carried out in the GDR and achieved timeless validity.

Heidi Manthey herself sees the culmination of her experimental progress in form and color design - in accordance with the Crodel principle of constant “trying out” - in the painting on porcelain, which she began during a visit to the State Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen . In 1999 she worked again with the porcelain manufactory due to the 125th birthday of Max Adolf Pfeiffer . Cooperation with KPM Berlin and the Staatliche Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen and the availability of mass-produced Chinese porcelain gave Heidi Manthey further impulses.

On behalf of the State Art Trade, the first designs and décor designs for the series production of the HB workshops were created in 1976. This includes a series of wall plates with imaginative black and green dog decorations (1977) and a juice service with a jug and foot mug, which she provided with delicate floral decorations (1977–1981).

After 1989, her ceramic art was exhibited and collected many times in West Germany.

Building ceramics

Heidi Manthey's first ceramic building objects were created in collaboration with Waldemar Grzimek , who had been part of Hedwig Bollhagen's freelance artistic collaborators and her HB workshops since 1951: In 1957, a 48 m long, figurative tile frieze was created for the party and publishing house of the NDPD in Berlin (Friedrichstraße), 1960 ceramic wall designs in the Agrobiological Institute of the University of Greifswald. Around 1959–1963, independent plaster ceramics with birds followed for the SED forest settlement in Wandlitz. One of the main works in Heidi Manthey's building ceramic work is the ensemble of a total of 12 blue painted faience tile pictures with mythological scenes from the Odyssey, executed in 1964 for the " Haus des Lehrers " in Berlin-Mitte on Alexanderplatz. These were destroyed in 2002 in an act of cultural barbarism during the renovation work on behalf of the municipal housing association Berlin-Mitte (WBM).

Awards

1982 Art Prize of the GDR

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1981/1982: Ceramics - Heidi Manthey , Monastery of Our Dear Women, Magdeburg
  • 1993: Heidi Manthey - ceramics , Muffendorfer Keramikgalerie, Bonn-Bad Godesberg
  • 1999: State Gallery Moritzburg, Halle
  • 2003/2004: Zeitkunstgalerie, Halle an der Saale
  • 2004: ... because of the excellent Mahlerey . Heidi Manthey's new creations for the Potsdam palaces, SPSG Berlin-Brandenburg, Neue Kammern Potsdam-Sanssouci 2004
  • 2004: Heidi Manthey for her 75th birthday , Museum for Applied Arts Gera 2004
  • 2004: Faience by Heidi Manthey , Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha Castle Museum, 2004
  • 2004: Heidi Manthey - vessels and figurative objects, KERAMION Foundation - Center for Modern + Historical Ceramics, Frechen, February 27 to May 8, 2005.
  • 2009: Heidi Manthey - Ceramics , District Museum Oberhavel, Oranienburg 2009
  • 2011: Heidi Manthey: Ceramics , Wolfshagen Castle Museum, August 2011

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1965: Sculpture and craftsmanship , Orangery Schloss Mosigkau 1965
  • 1970: Hedwig Bollhagen - Charles Chrodel - Heidi Manthey , Orangery Potsdam-Sanssouci 1970
  • 1972: State Museum Schloss Mosigkau, Orangery, 1972 with Gertraud Möhwald
  • 1976: European ceramics of the present , Keramion Frechen 1976
  • 1985: Studio R, Mannheim 1985 with Herbert Kitzel
  • 1987: Contemporary ceramics from the GDR , Keramion Frechen 1987
  • 1993: Paths, Triennial Art from Clay , Magdeburg, Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, 1993
  • 2014: Löwenfinck - A birthday present , St. Annen Museum Lübeck 2014 (with Gudrun Gaube)
  • 2018: Gallery in the Herrenhaus zu Dobis 2018 (with Kurt Bunge)
  • 2018: VI Hallenser Heidi Manthey / Mareile Manthey / Babro Wiederhold / Otto Möhwald / Martin Möhwald, Zeitkunstgalerie, Halle an der Saale, November 26th - December 31st, 2016

Working in collections

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  • Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin
  • Märkisches Museum / Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Berlin
  • Museum Schloss Bernburg, Bernburg
  • Hotel Mercure, Chemnitz
  • Art collections of the Veste Coburg
  • Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloss Pillnitz Dresden
  • Hetjensmuseum Düsseldorf
  • Keramion Frechen
  • State Gallery Moritzburg Halle (Saale)
  • Grassi Museum Leipzig
  • the Lübeck museums, St. Annen museums, Lübeck
  • Plastic collection and cultural history museum Magdeburg
  • Potsdam Palace and Gardens Foundation
  • Glücksburg Castle , Römhid
  • State Museum Schwerin
  • Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf

literature

  • Cat.Heidi Manthey, TIP-Galerie Berlin 1980 (author: Heinz Schönemann)
  • Heidi Manthey: Faience. 32 colored panels. Afterword by Eckart Krumbholz, Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1983 - Insel-Bücherei No. 1050
  • Heidi Manthey. Collection picture folder 325, Planet-Verlag, Berlin 1985 (Author: Gudrun Schmidt)
  • Cat. Ceramic Heidi Manthey, Werkstattprofile 106, State Art Dealer of the GDR, Studio-Galerie, Berlin, June 7th – 28th, 1989
  • Heidi Manthey - Faience and porcelain, Stiftung Kulturfonds Berlin 1994 (Author: Bettina Zöller-Stock)
  • Cat. Heidi Manthey: ceramics  ; Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle, from September 18 to October 31, 1999; Ed .: Rita Grundig. Halle, Saale: State. Galerie Moritzburg, 1999. ISBN 3-86105-038-2 .
  • Heidi Manthey - Half a Century of Faience Art, in: KeramosHeft 166, October 1999, pp. 49–66 (Author: Bettina Zöller-Stock)
  • Heidi Manthey - Ceramics, Leipzig 1999 (Author: Bettina Zöller-Stock)
  • In a nutshell. Porcelain for Meissen. In honor of Max Adolf Pfeiffer, Leipzig 2000
  • "Object business". Hedwig Bollhagen and Heidi Manthey - Two ceramists under one roof (Author: Bettina Zöller-Stock), in: Hedwig Bollhagen. A life for ceramics, publisher: Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz Bonn, Bramsche 2007, pp. 223–229
  • “She preferred to keep her distance.” HB - for her 100th birthday. Interview Heidi Manthey - Bärbel Kicska, in: Hedwig Bollhagen. A life for ceramics, publisher: Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz Bonn, Bramsche 2007, pp. 230–232

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin: History, Reconstruction, New Acquisitions , Kunstgewerbemuseum, State Museums in Berlin - Capital of the GDR, 1983, p. 155
personal data
SURNAME Manthey, Heidi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ceramist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig