Jürgen Pretzsch

Juergen Pretzsch 2014

Jürgen Hermann Pretzsch (born August 1, 1949 in Saalfeld ; † October 18, 2014 in Erfurt ) was a German architect , town planner, watercolor painter and graphic artist .

Live and act

Jürgen Pretzsch was born in Saalfeld in Thuringia in 1949. His father, Alfred Pretzsch (1908–1992), was a painter, interior designer, bridge builder, architectural graphic artist and university professor , his mother a carpenter and furniture designer . He spent his childhood in Weimar . After attending the polytechnic high school, he learned the profession of toolmaker parallel to obtaining the general university entrance qualification . 1968–1972 he completed a degree in architecture and urban planning at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction , from which he graduated with a diploma.

Here he also met his future wife Barbara (Bärbel) Rudolph (1949–2006). Jürgen Pretzsch worked with her as a city planner from 1972 to 1991, including five years in Neubrandenburg , two years in Magdeburg and eleven years in Erfurt. He made a name for himself as an expert in residential area planning, noise and environmental protection . 1989–1994 he became increasingly involved politically, became a member of the New Forum (working group on environmental protection) in 1990 and brought his experience in environmental protection to various committees (Citizens' Council for Environmental Protection, Environmental Advisory Council, Committee for Environment and Nature Conservation) during the fall of the Berlin Wall City of Erfurt.

Jürgen Pretzsch worked as a freelance watercolor painter and graphic artist from 1991 until his death in 2014. From 1995 he specialized in capturing exposed buildings and entire cities in the form of isometric representations and, after an encounter with Ernst Haeckel's Art Forms of Nature, also in the form of radiolarians on paper and with explanatory texts, shaped by his interest in science , philosophy and Literature , to be added. With his art he supported u. a. the Cyriakkapelle in Erfurt and campaigned for social and ecological issues.

Graphic work

Jürgen Pretzsch's graphic work includes watercolors and partly colored graphics in the form of individual works, cycles and posters. It can be found again in private ownership, various museums, city archives and charitable institutions.

Selection:

• Poster (Germany-wide) Stop Nightmare Autobahn (1993)
• Volksbank triptych for a branch in Erfurt (1996)
• Watercolor cycles for a restaurant in Erfurt's Andreasviertel (1992) and for Bad Colberg Kliniken GmbH (1997 and 1999)
• Graphic cycles The trees of Dom and Severi (1994), Ulrich von Hutten and Erfurt today (1999), The flying! for the airport restaurant Erfurt (2006)
• Isometrics old town Erfurt 1995 with the support of the Erfurt building management, Erfurt between Domhügel and Krämerbrücke (1996), Weimar. The downtown. (1997), industrial site Rudolstadt-Schwarza on behalf of LEG (1998), Merseburg in Saxony-Anhalt , Castle and Cathedral (1998), Saaleck around 1998 for the Saalecker Werkstätten (1998), Dom and Severi 1999 , Dom and Severi von Westen in 2000 with the support of the Dombauamt, Die Krämerbrücke 2001 , advertisement Die Lange Brücke in der Altstadt Erfurt (2002), Zentralperspektiven Auf dem Petersberg (2002), Das kleine Altstadtblatt - Altstadt Erfurt 2004 , Geyer , Bergstadt im Erzgebirge (2005), city maps Bad Kösen 1850 and 2007 (2007)
• Radiolariums erfordia turrita (2006), those turrita (2006), Das Große Radiolarienblatt (2007), Der Stern der Verheißung (2009), Planet Erfurt (2010)
• The Cyriakkapelle Erfurt for the Bartning years 2008–2010 (2009), sign (2014)
• Work for the nursing homes Claudine Thévenet in Grimma and Seelingstädt (2004), for the nursing home Sankt Anna in Annaberg-Buchholz (2004) and for the Luisenhaus in Naumburg (2004)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection):

• 1992: Erfurtbilder - Umweltbilder , first exhibition on the Erfurt Eco Games
• 1992: first personal exhibition, Bad Kösen ( Romanesque house )
• 1995: Watercolor painting and graphics , Lahmeyer Hydroprojekt GmbH Weimar
• 1997: In the company of trees , Landtag Erfurt and Bad Kösen
• 1998: Quedlinburg Castle Museum
• 1999: Veste Heldburg
• 2001: Urban planning , Saaleck workshops
• 2002: Ulrich von Hutten and Erfurt today , Erfurt, artothek Domplatz
• 2003: 10 years Bad Colberg Kliniken GmbH , Bad Colberg
• 2004: A secret chronicler of Erfurt / Isometry , Erfurt, Rathaus Galerie etage 2
• 2005: Construction site train station, bridge building , Erfurt, main station
• 2007: 20 years of Drosselberg in Erfurt south-east , planning documents and own drawings
• 2008: Erfurt from the perspective of the birds - isometric graphics , Erfurt, Protestant student community
• 2009: Exhibition about Otto Bartning as part of 90 years of Bauhaus with drawings by Jürgen Pretzsch, Erfurt, Cyriakkapelle
• 2010: Radiolarians , Jena , Ernst-Haeckel-Haus
• 2012: Sketch pad & offset printing , Erfurt, Catholic Hospital
• 2014: Radiolarians and other wonders of evolution , exhibition for the 65th birthday of the artist, Weimar, Thuringia Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians

Exhibition participation (selection):

• 1986: Architects see their environment , Association of Architects of the GDR
• 1994: Participation in the memorial exhibition for Alfred Pretzsch, Stadtmuseum Weimar, cabinet on Goetheplatz
• 2010: Big city paranoia, GEWERK Erfurt
• 2010/2011: Painting, drawings and graphics , double exhibition with Matthias Schöneburg, Bad Kösen
• 2012: Pictures and cabinets , double exhibition with furniture restorer Henry Thomas, geWERK Erfurt

literature

• Jürgen Pretzsch: The influence of Art Nouveau on Weimar's cityscape. In: Stadtmuseum Weimar (ed.): Weimar writings . Issue 29, 1976.
• Jürgen Pretzsch: On problems of rationality in urban planning. In: Architecture of the GDR . No. 9/1979 . Publishing house for construction, Berlin 1979.
• Jürgen Pretzsch: Deep spring well at the bottom of a small amphitheater (Mühlhausen 1970) . In: Wulf Kirsten (Ed.): Entry in the land register. Thuringia in poetry . Hayn-Verlag, Rudolstadt & Jena 1996, ISBN 3-930215-38-1 , p. 94 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Pretzsch, Wolfgang Hecht: Das Alte Weimar outlines and quotes . Hermann Böhlaus successor , Weimar 1975, ISBN 3-7400-0177-1 .
2. ↑ Kreisverband Erfurt, membership card 50000008, February 13, 1990.
3. ↑ Hartmut Schwarz: The view from above was his trademark . Thuringian General , Erfurt October 29, 2014.
4. ↑ Jürgen Pretzsch's private website, Isometrien ( Memento from April 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Jürgen Pretzsch's private website, Radiolarians ( Memento from April 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Graphic by J. Pretzsch. In: Cyriakkapelle in Erfurt. Retrieved March 22, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Can be seen from a distance . Thuringian State Newspaper , Erfurt April 23, 2014.
8. ↑ The history of the Sankt Annaheimes. In: “Sankt Anna” nursing home for the elderly. Retrieved March 22, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Lahmeyer Hydroprojekt GmbH (ed.): Overview of artists who have already exhibited in our company . Weimar 2017.
10. ↑ Jürgen Zerull: 20 years Drosselberg in Erfurt south-east. In: Thuringian Natural Letter. March 12, 2007, accessed March 22, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Angelika Reiser-Fischer: The small universe of the Erfurt graphic artist Jürgen Pretzsch . Thuringian General, Erfurt March 22, 2010.
12. ↑ Stephan Laudien: A symbiosis of architecture and the wonderful world of nature. In: idw - Information Service Science. February 8, 2010, accessed March 24, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Carola-Manuela Riemer: Fascination Radiolarians - And other wonders of evolution . Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Thuringia, circular 06/2014, Weimar 2014.
14. ↑ Pictures by Jürgen Pretzsch. geWERK Erfurt, January 1, 2010, accessed on March 22, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Jürgen Pretzsch and Matthias Schöneburg show paintings, drawings and graphics. In: Museumsverein Naumburg. September 28, 2010, accessed March 22, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Maik Ehrlich: Graphics meet furniture design . Thuringian State Newspaper, Erfurt September 21, 2012.