Irmtraud Ohme

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Grave of Irmtraud Ohme on the Stadtgottesacker in Halle / Saale.

Irmtraud Ohme (born March 15, 1937 in Magdeburg ; † March 19, 2002 in Tenerife ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Irmtraud Ohme studied from 1955 to 1960 in the field of " metal and enamel " at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art in Halle , then called the Halle University of Industrial Design. She completed her diploma with Lili Schultz and Karl Müller . After a brief activity as a designer in industry, she became an assistant at Burg Giebichenstein in 1961, and from 1965 a senior assistant in the enamel design department. From 1977 to 1981 she was a lecturer and from 1981 professor and head of the metal / enamel design department at Burg Giebichenstein. After the turn , she received a 1991 with the reorganization of the present castle Giebichenstein art school hall reputation as a professor and head of the Department of Plastic / metal.

Act

Ohmes sculptures, mostly made of steel, stainless steel, stone and concrete, can be found in many public spaces. The large-format work Maureske, completed in 1989, stands in front of the Moritzburg Halle (Saale) art museum . She has received several awards for her work. At the end of her work at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College, she had been preparing a comprehensive exhibition in the Villa Kobe art gallery since 2001 ; but which she no longer lived to see. Under the direction of Dagmar Schmidt , her assistants organized one last exhibition posthumously.

Since 1963 she has participated in around 250 exhibitions at home and abroad. She took part in symposia for steel sculpture in Staßfurt, Berlin and in Ravne, Slovenia. Since 1973 she was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

After Karl Müller, Irmtraud Ohme was the determining personality in the teaching of metal art at Burg Giebichenstein for several decades , she had a school-building role. In a comprehensive exhibition in 1989 in the then still existing Kunsthalle Berlin , Irmtraud Ohme and her students were able to present the artistic breadth of their work and thus also the training initiated by Ohme. Her students included u. a. Johann-Peter Hinz , Rainer Henze, Hartmut Renner , Ulrich Barnickel , Cornelia Weihe , Jörg-Tilmann Hinz , Thomas Reichstein , Thomas Leu, Klaus Völker, Klaus-J. Albert, Andreas Freyer , Dagmar Schmidt , Rosemarie Ulrich.

Publicly owned works

Working in public space

Vacanz in Magdeburg

honors and awards

literature

  • Peter Romanus, Cornelia Wieg, André Gessner, Klaus Göltz: Irmtraud Ohme. Zeitmass: Sculptures, Pictures & Objects , Moritzburg Foundation 1997, ISBN 3-86105-018-8 .
  • Metal art from the German Democratic Republic , Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin (West), 1989, ISBN 3-8030-5054-5 .
  • Burg Giebichenstein- The Halle art school from its beginnings to the present 1992 , Halle, 1993, ISBN 978-3-927789-46-3 .

Web links

Commons : Irmtraud Ohme  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chemiebrunnen website of the city of Halle (Saale), accessed on July 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Ravne Na Koroskem - Irmtraud Olga Ohme (Magdeburg, Nemčija), 1981 "Utrinki iz Slovenije (Slovenia Landmarks)", accessed on July 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Ohme, Irmtraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2002
Place of death Tenerife