Ilse Decho

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Ilse Decho (born December 9, 1915 in Leipzig as Helene Ilse Schmidt , † January 16, 1978 in Leipzig) was a German glass and porcelain designer.

life and work

Jena glass teapot

Decho completed a commercial apprenticeship, attended evening school at the Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade and studied at the Leipzig School of Applied Arts from 1947 to 1949. She then worked as a freelance artisan and designer in Leipzig until 1966. Then she taught until her retirement in 1975 as a lecturer in glass design, later as a professor at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein in Halle (Saale) .

Decho's creative work includes cooking and roasting utensils as well as the 5000 tea set made of Jenaer Glas (designed 1962–1963) for the VEB Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen., the service and the Julia goblet series (designed 1963) for the VEB Porzellanwerk Freiberg and for the VEB Porzellanwerk Ilmenau "Graf von Henneberg" the food, coffee and mocha service Daphne (designed in 1964) and the coffee and mocha service Atlas (designed in 1973). In addition, she created objects of free glass design.

From 1954 to 1971 Decho was a member of the glass / ceramic expert commission of the German Office for Metrology and Goods Testing .

Decho received numerous prizes for her designs: in 1956 she was awarded a gold medal at the arts and crafts fair in Munich, in 1965 she received the art prize of the city of Leipzig (1965) and one year later she was awarded the art prize of the GDR . Ilse Decho's glass and porcelain designs were shown at various art exhibitions in the GDR and solo exhibitions in the Grassimuseum in Leipzig (1961 and 1985) and in the Angermuseum in Erfurt (1961).

In 2000 a street in the Leipzig district of Heiterblick was named after her.

literature

  • Short biography for:  Decho, Ilse . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Walter Funkat, arts and crafts in the GDR. Berlin 1970.
  • Ilse Decho - glass and porcelain. In memory. Museum of Arts and Crafts Leipzig and University for Industrial Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle with contributions by Angela Grzesiak, Renate Luckner-Bien and others (no year).
  • Angela Grzesiak, Ilse Decho. In: glass and porcelain. Museum of Arts and Crafts Leipzig 1985.
  • Ute Camphausen, The Leipzig School of Applied Arts. Passage-Verlag Leipzig 1996. ISBN 978-3-938543-50-4 .
  • Hubert Kittel, Ilse Dechos Glass designs for Jena - a new model for household glass from 1960. In: Schott and the castle. Giebichensteiner Castle Designs for Jenaer Glas 1925–2005. Publishing house and database for the humanities. Weimar 2006. ISBN 978-3-89739-536-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Copy of the birth certificate deposited in the support
  2. ^ Günther Höhne: GDR design . Komet, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-89836-587-1 , pp. 129 ff., 143 f.
  3. ↑ a b leipzig.de: 100 portraits of women ( memento of the original from September 9, 2017 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. , accessed October 18, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leipzig.de
  4. ^ Winner of the 1966 art award . In: Neue Zeit , March 27, 1966, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Decho, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Helene Ilse (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass and porcelain designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1978
Place of death Leipzig