Hubert Koch (artist)

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Hubert Koch (* 1932 in Lauscha - 2010) was a German art glass blower, glass designer and glass artist.

Life

After attending school, Hubert Koch completed an apprenticeship as an art glass blower from 1947 to 1950. In 1956 he passed the master craftsman examination.

In 1973 he was accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , and since then he has been working as a freelancer in Lauscha.

Since 1977 he has participated with his works in numerous art exhibitions at home and abroad. His works are exhibited in various museums. Koch was the artistic director of the International Glass Symposia in Lauscha in 1986 and 1989.

From the wide range of lamp glass blowers in the Thuringian Forest, who followed Albin Schaedel (1904-1999) from designing animal figures into the vessel, Hubert Koch was the only one who was able to really break away from his role model and develop a highly independent design language even in international comparison. His delicate glasses, in which he often juxtaposes undecorated surfaces and echoes of natural forms, have received numerous awards, e. B. at the Coburg glass prizes for European glass art 1977 and 1985. Joachim Kruse, former director of the art collections of the Veste Coburg, asked in an appreciation whether it was exaggerated when he calls Koch the world champion of lamp glassblowers: "Has such glasses nobody made it before him, and nobody will do it after him "(in Hubert Koch - Glas. Wechmar 2002, p. 14).

Hubert Koch ran a glass workshop in Lauscha.

Awards

  • 1978 Honorary diploma at the 2nd Quadrennial of Arts and Crafts in Socialist Countries

literature

  • Uwe Claassen: From craft to art. Artificial glassblowers in the Thuringian Forest after 1945. In: Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation, Vol. 53/2008, pp. 325–350, especially 334.
  • Uwe Claassen: International Glass Symposia in Lauscha 1980 - 1997. Book accompanying the exhibition in the Museum of Glass Art Lauscha. Lauscha 2003.
  • Hubert Koch - glass. Book accompanying the exhibition in the Museum of Glass Art Lauscha. Edited by Uwe Claassen for the Museum of Glass Art. Wechmar: Kunstverlag Gotha 2002. With contributions by Michael and Margrit Bauer, Uwe Claassen, Joachim Kruse and Herbert Schönemann.
  • Rudolf Hoffmann: Thüringer Glas yesterday and today , Lauscha 1979, p. 42.

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personal data
SURNAME Cook, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art glass blower and glass artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauscha