Heinz-Günter Prager

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Heinz-Günter Prager (born December 19, 1944 in Herne , Westphalia ) is a German sculptor , draftsman , graphic artist of concrete art and em. Professor at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts , where he taught sculpture from 1983 to 2010.

Life

Large cylinder sculpture II (1981). Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund

Prager studied from 1964 to 1968 at the Werkkunstschule Münster in the sculpture class of Karl Ehlers . After completing his studies, he received the Jung Westfalen Prize for Plastic. In the same year he moved to Cologne. In 1973 Prager received the Villa Romana Prize , which was followed by a ten-month stay in Florence . This is also where his theoretical considerations on my sculpture arose , which deal with a scale of the human body and its application to the sculpture. He received further support in 1976 when he was invited to a three-month work stay at the Villa Massimo in Rome . The following year he took part in documenta 6 in Kassel. Another honor followed in 1979 when he was awarded the Villa Massimo Prize.

In 1983 Manfred Schneckenburger published a monograph accompanying Prager's solo exhibitions in the Museum Moderne Kunst, Palais Liechtenstein in Vienna , in the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg and in the Kunsthalle Mannheim .

Monument in front of the Villa Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach. The inscription on the plaque reads: In memory of the victims of National Socialism - sculpture and conception of the place Heinz-Günter Prager - inscription of the place border Gerhard Rühm - In June 1993. Inscription is embedded in the stones on the ground, which is repeated on the information board : The lie about the Auschwitz lie is the most terrible lie

In 2009, Prager donated a large bundle of his works to the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum (Center for International Sculpture) in Duisburg, which showed it as part of an exhibition from December 2009 to January 2010.

The Lehmbruck Museum's collection thus includes over 200 works by Prager, including steel and lead sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs.

Herner Ronden (2004), Friedrich-Ebert-Platz, Herne

Heinz-Günter Prager was a member of the German Association of Artists and DKB Chairman of the Board from 1988 to 1989. He lives and works in Cologne and Plomeur in Brittany.

Exhibitions (selection)

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Prager is regarded as a pioneer and advocate of floor sculpture, which, in contrast to standing, vertical sculpture, is not a visual symbol away from people, but relates directly to people, their physical dimensions and experiences (size, height, weight, expansion, movement). Apart from his clay sculptures and drawings, lying sculptures made of rolled and shaped steel, which he has been deriving as elementary, stereometric basic forms from systems of measurement since 1971, shape his work as a sculptor:

Completely independent of the changing fads of a virulent art market, with his sculptures Prager examines anthropomorphic proportions and equilibrium relationships of bodies, whose limbs rest, revolve around themselves, complement one another, extend and as an object in temporal-spatial exchange with the subject (human / Viewer) form a place.

Quote

"Man and sculpture are stable quantities. Their distance from one another forms the unstable quantity; because it means time and space. The sculpture-human relationship is in this time-space structure, merging into a mass-space-time unit. Stable Sizes change due to unstable sizes. " - Heinz-Günter Prager

Selection of works by Prager in museums and in public spaces:

literature

  • Manfred Schneckenburger (Ed.): Prager. Sculptures. Hatje-Verlag, Ostfildern 1983.
  • Manfred Schneckenburger (Ed.): Prager. Drawings. Wienand-Verlag, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-87909-360-1 .
  • Gabriele Uelsberg (Ed.): Prager. Sculptures 1980-1995. Wienand-Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-87909-483-7 .
  • Prague. Step by step. Groups of works 1969–2001. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn 2001.
  • Heinz-Günter Prager, prints 1967–2003. Nuremberg 2005.
  • Prague. Down above. Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Wienand-Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-87909-924-5 .
  • Prague. Research. Verlag für modern art, Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86984-021-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donation by Heinz-Günter Prager. Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
  2. ↑ Board of Directors of the German Association of Artists since 1951. ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kuenstlerbund.de, accessed on December 14, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ Heinz-Günter Prager: Thoughts on my sculpture . In: Catalog HGPrager sculptures 1978 . City of Leverkusen, Leverkusen 1978, p. 119 eff .

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personal data
SURNAME Prager, Heinz-Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Herne , Westphalia