Helga Exner

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Helga Exner , née Helga Menzel (born October 9, 1939 in Gablonz , district of Gablonz an der Neisse ) is a Czech - Danish goldsmith .

Life

Exner's native town of Gablonz was known for its glass and jewelry industries , and Exner's ancestors had become wealthy as a result. At the age of five, Exner, her mother and her three siblings fled the Red Army to East Germany. Helga Exner was smuggled to her grandparents in the Allgäu by a gypsy . A few years later, her mother and siblings followed. They later moved to the Black Forest . Her father was released from Czechoslovak war captivity after six years and moved with his family to Langenberg near Gütersloh. After graduating from the Waldorf School in Krefeld , Exner began training as a goldsmith at the Rudolf Steiner Seminar in Bad Godesberg at the age of 16 . There she met Bent Exner , moved to Denmark and married him on January 3, 1961.

The couple founded a joint workshop in Vendsyssel in 1966 and had five children over the years. In 1983 Helga Exner separated from her husband and moved to Aarhus . There she worked at the Rudolf Steiner Pædagogseminariet. In 1985 she founded her own workshop in Aarhus, which she later moved to Odder . On June 8, 1988, she married Peter Schou, with whom she has a daughter.

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Helga Exner is considered one of Denmark's most renowned jewelry artists who - together with her then husband Bent Exner - renewed the production of jewelry on an artistic level. Her works are characterized by freely designed, often dance-moving forms. She often works amber into her pieces of jewelery and combines them with turquoise enameled inserts. They have been shown in major solo and group exhibitions. In 1995 the Art Museum Horsens organized a retrospective of her works from 1965 to 1995. In the same year an art book appeared on her work from 1985 to 1995. On her 70th birthday, a second retrospective took place in Odder in 2009.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions together with her first husband
  • Röhsska Art Museum, Gothenburg, 1964
  • Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen 1969, 1976
  • Sydslesvig-Danish Art Society, Flensburg 1969
  • Sønderjyllanda Art Museum, Sønderborg 1974
  • Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg 1976
  • Aalborg Castle 1972
  • Jens Nielsen Museum, Holstebro 1981
  • Herning Art Museum, 1983
  • Nordens Hus, Reykjavik 1974
Exhibitions as an independent artist
  • Vrå exhibition 1983, 1986–2011
  • Flindt Gallery, Århus 1987
  • Jens Nielsen and Olivia Holm-Møller Museum, Holstebro 1987
  • Gunnar Nielsen's art gallery, Brovst 1987
  • Orbit Gallery, Copenhagen 1988
  • Odder Art Forum 1988
  • Aalborg Art Society 1988
  • Art forum for Horsens and Omegn 1989
  • Gallery C, Århus 1993
  • Galerie Kunst So, Aalborg 1991
  • Fredens Kirke, Århus 1994
  • “Church of the Arts”, Frederikshavn Art Museum 1992
  • “Welcome Europe”, Hjørring Art Museum 1992
  • Ravnsbjergkirken, Århus 1993
  • Fredens Kirke, Århus 1994
  • Ellevang Church, Aarhus 1994
  • Horsens Art Museum 1995
  • Vrå, Kunstbygningen 1996
  • Holbæk Art Association 1996
  • Aarhus Women's Museum 2003
  • Odder Museum 1999
  • Fanø Art Museum 2001
  • Esbjerger Museum 2002
  • Aarhus Women's Museum, retrospective, 60 years 2003
  • Odder Museum 2004
  • Oksbøl ravmusem 2005
  • Amber Museum Ribnitz-Damgarten 2006
  • Ravbienale Kaleningrad 2007
  • Radisson / dkl 2007
  • Ravnsbjerg Church 2011
  • Odder Museum, retrospective, 70 years 2009
  • Børglum art forum 2010
  • Café Odder 2011
  • Vrå exhibition since 1967

Prices

  • International goldsmiths' jewelry competition, 1st prize and additional prize 1968
  • Lunningsprisen 1969
  • International Jewelery Show, Munich, gold medal 1972
  • Diploma from the 2nd International Calvary Kaliningrad 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ website. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Helga Exner | Gyldendal - The Danske store. Retrieved April 29, 2018 (Danish).
  3. ^ Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Helga Exner. May 15, 2003. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
  4. ^ Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Helga Exner. May 15, 2003. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Helga Exner Smykker 1965-1995. Accessed April 29, 2018
  6. ↑ Chr. Rimestad: Ravolsen Danser: Helga Exners smykkebilleder 1985-1995. Ålykke Publishing House 1995
personal data
SURNAME Exner, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menzel, Helga (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-Danish goldsmith
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Gablonz , district of Gablonz on the Neisse