Ilona Lenk

Ilona Lenk (* 1964 in Stuttgart ) is a German painter, stage and costume designer. She is the daughter of the sculptor Thomas Lenk .

theatre

After studying politics and literature at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , Ilona Lenk switched to the Freiburg Drama School. She was the set designer for the Kammerspiele in the E-Werk Freiburg and set assistant at the Freiburg Municipal Theaters. Ilona Lenk has been working as a freelance painter and set designer since 1994. So far she has worked as a set designer at the Lindenhof Theater, Heidelberg Theater, Bielefeld Theater, National Theater Mannheim, Karlsruhe State Theater, the Stuttgart State Opera, Semperoper Dresden and Israelian Opera Tel Aviv.

mosaic

Center for Molecular Biology of Plants (ZMBP) in Tübingen

Mosaic banner of the poem "La rançon" Charles Baudelaire in front of the Tübingen ZMBP designed by Ilona Lenk

In 2012, Ilona Lenk received the order for a mosaic for the new building of the Center for Molecular Biology of Plants (ZMBP) on the Morgenstelle of the University of Tübingen after she had won a competition. Together with six Italian craftsmen, she laid 13 tons of stone using the Ligurian Rissëu mosaic technique. 150 meters of white letters in the Futura font made of Carrara marble contrast with a background of black basalt. The artist and her expert helpers laid around seven meters a day. The mosaic banner reproduces the French poem "La rançon" by Charles Baudelaire .

Fashion

As a fashion designer , she created the Italian clothing line La Linea Arrancione, which she presented at fashion shows in Zoagli and Sarzana , among others .

Web links

• www.ilona-lenk.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lenk + Lenk , access date: October 27, 2018.
2. ^ Theater Reutlingen: Ilona Lenk: stage, costumes. ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Not a day without a rooster.
4. ↑ ^{a b} 150 meter mosaic on the Tübinger Morgenstelle. GEA, September 19, 2012.
5. ↑ Pebbles That Tell Tales.
6. ↑ La rançon on TÜpedia.
7. ↑ La Linea Arrancione ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.