Jěwa Wórša Lanzyna

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Stele at the former ballroom and society house in Hoyerswerda

Jěwa Wórša Lanzyna (German Eva-Ursula Lange ; born September 11, 1928 in Niederkaina , † December 20, 2020 ) was a Sorbian painter , graphic artist , ceramist and book designer .

life and work

Lanzyna grew up in Bautzen . After attending primary school, she completed a pottery apprenticeship in Görlitz from 1945 to 1948 and studied at the University of Applied Arts in Prague in 1950 and at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art from 1951 to 1956 . She then worked from 1956 to 1958 as a book designer at Volk und Wissen Verlag and from 1958 to 1962 at Domowina Verlag . Since 1962 she has been working as a freelance artist and between 1978 and 1990 she was chairwoman of the working group of Sorbian visual artists.

In 1974 she took part with Měrćin Nowak-Njechorński and Jan Buck at the VII Congress of the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR in Karl-Marx-Stadt .

In 2003, on the occasion of her 75th birthday, the Sorbian Artists Association organized an exhibition and a festive event in the baroque Neschwitz Castle , at which Jurij Koch gave the laudation. On the occasion of her 80th birthday the event Eva-Ursula Lange took place in September 2008 in the Wendisches Museum Cottbus . Artist in conversation instead, as an accompaniment to the then special exhibition Weltsprache Wendisch - Literature, Art .

She took part in the exhibition Legendary - Encounters with Midday Woman, Aquarius and other mysterious journeymen in Hoyerswerda Castle with a series of clay lutches . One of her works in public space is the stele on the former ballroom and society house in Hoyerswerda , which commemorates the founding of the Domowina in 1912.

The artist lived and worked in Baruth near Bautzen . She died in December 2020 at the age of 92 as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Works

  • Stele at the former ballroom and society house in Hoyerswerda
  • Wall frieze for the Knappenhütte in Knappenrode

Books

  • Wórša Lanzyna, Steffen Lange: Radosć tworjenja ( joy of design ). Translated by Sonja Wölkowa. Bautzen 1998.

Illustrations

  • Kito Lorenc : Nowe časy - nowe kwasy: basnje ze studentskich lět . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1962. (Illustrations with Steffen Lange).
  • Ernst Schmidt: Sorbian Easter eggs . 4th edition. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1965. (Illustrations with Steffen Lange).
  • Jurij Nuk , Gerat Libš : Hody w serbskej prozy a poeziji . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1970.
  • Ludmila Brězanowa (Ed.): Naš nan a naša mać: čitanka za serbsku swójbu . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1982.
  • Ernst Schmidt: Colorful Sorbian Easter eggs . 9th edition Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1990, ISBN 3-7420-0372-0 .

literature

  • Ursula and Steffen Lange. In: Alfred Krautz: Sorbian visual artists. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1974.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhard Frommhold: IX. Art exhibition of the German Democratic Republic. Dresden 1982/83. The Association, 1982, p. 410.
  2. ↑ a b c Mirko Kolodziej: Lutki company made of clay in the castle. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . June 7, 2008, accessed December 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Beno Cyž: The GDR and the Sorbs. A documentation on nationality politics in the GDR. Part 2. Domowina, Bautzen 1979, p. 160.
  4. ^ The year 2003 with the Sorbs. ( Memento from December 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 226 kB) Domowina - Bund Lausitzer Sorben e. V., 2004.
  5. ↑ Information about the event on the website of the Wendisches Museum Cottbus ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
  6. ↑ Obituary in Serbske Nowiny , December 23, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Lanzyna, Jěwa Wórša
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lanzyna, Wórša; Lange, Eva-Ursula; Lange-Lanzyna, Wórša
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Sorbian artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederkaina
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2020