Jan Kollwitz

Jan Kollwitz (born July 4, 1960 in Berlin ) is a German ceramist and a great-grandson of Käthe Kollwitz .

Life

Kollwitz grew up in Berlin. At a young age he was an actor on stage and in front of the camera, including in Peter Beauvais' film Six Weeks in the Lives of the Brothers G. At the age of 23, he switched to the art of pottery. After training with Horst Kerstan in Kandern , he was a student of Yutaka Nakamura (Echizen, Japan) in Japan. In 1988, through the mediation of the tea ceramist Kazu Yamada, a traditional anagama oven was built on his workshop premises in Cismar (Ostholstein) by the Japanese oven builder Tatsuo Watanabe, who among other things had built ovens for Tokuro Kato . Since then, Jan Kollwitz has been burning his ceramics there, mainly in the Shigaraki and Iga tradition. Since 1990 his vessels have been shown at numerous exhibitions. His work is deeply rooted in Zen Buddhism and the Japanese tea ceremony . The Watanabe oven in Cismar was the model for the historical Anagama oven in Christoph Peters' novel Mr. Yamashiro prefers potatoes In cooperation with Peters and the photographer Götz Wrage, the book Japan begins on the Baltic Sea - Jan Kollwitz's ceramics was created in 2010 .

Works by the artist are in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts , Museum of Asian Art (Berlin) , Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf , Art Collection of the Veste Coburg, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin , Stiftung Keramion Frechen, Grassi-Museum Leipzig , Hällisch- Franconian Museum Schwäbisch Hall, Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth and Museum for Art and Crafts Hamburg , Peter Siemssen Foundation and Gisela Freudenberg Collection, Weinheim.

Jan Wagner dedicated his poem die tassen to him in 2014 .

Awards

• 2011 Villa Massimo Scholarship Rome
• 2011 Ostholstein Culture Prize

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Jan Kollwitz creates ceramics in his workshop using the traditional Japanese wood-firing technique, away from all artistic fashions. His ceramics are not glazed. During the four-day fire, at temperatures above 1250 degrees Celsius, colors and shine are created exclusively by the fact that the fly ash melts into a natural glaze on the vessels. Smoke, flames and embers leave behind gray, red and deep blue colors.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2012 Pucker Gallery, Boston; André Kirbach Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 2011 Galerie Kleefisch Cologne;
• 2010 Museum for Asian Art, Berlin; Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne
• 2009 Heikendorf Art Museum
• 2008 Ostholstein-Museum Eutin , Museum Kellinghusen
• 2007 Käthe Kollwitz Moritzburg House , Goethe Institute Hamburg, Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg
• 2006 Phillipps Art-Forum Bochum, Studio Pels-Leusden Berlin
• 2005 East Asian Museum Berlin, Gallery Handwerk Munich, Kunstraum-B Kiel
• 2003 Rosenthal Studio Galerie, Hamburg; Studio Pels-Leusden, Berlin
• 2002 Museum in Bad Pyrmont Castle
• 2001 Ostholstein Museum, Eutin; Eko-Haus, Düsseldorf; Zen-Art Gallery Hennig, Hamburg
• 1999 Faita Gallery, Hameln; Emslandmuseum Clemenswerth
• 1998 Rosenthal Studio Galerie, Hamburg; Studio Pels-Leusden, Berlin; Galerie Objekta, Kreuzlingen (S)
• 1997 Weiher Castle Gallery, Bayreuth
• 1996 Lommel Gallery, Leverkusen
• 1995 Zen-Art Galerie Hennig, Hamburg
• 1993 Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Kloster Cismar, together with Sebastian Scheid and Gerhard Tattko
• 1991 Galerie Theis, Berlin

Fonts

• Christoph Peters , Götz Wrage (photos): Japan begins at the Baltic Sea - Jan Kollwitz's ceramics . Wachholtz-Verlag, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-529-02763-5 .
• Mask L. Andrew, Pucker Gallery: Focusing the flame. Ceramics by Jan Kollwitz . Catalog. Pucker Gallery, Boston 2012.
• Gudrun Schmidt-Esters (Ed.): Momoyama ceramics and their influence on the present . Keramion Foundation, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941005-06-8 .
• Ceramic life . Collection Peter Siemssen Foundation, Arnoldsche, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89790-255-8 .
• Jan Kollwitz, Sebastian Scheid, Gerhard Tattko - ceramics . Catalog. Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Cismar Monastery 1993.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282143/
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 4, 2019 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. ↑ Christoph Peters: Mr. Yamashiro prefers potatoes . 4th edition. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-630-87411-1 (224 pages).
4. ↑ Keramik Leben, Collection Peter Siemssen Stiftung, Arnoldsche 2007, ISBN 978-3-89790-255-8
5. ↑ Gudrun Schmidt-Esters (ed.): Momoyama ceramics and their influence on the present. Keramion Foundation 2011
6. ↑ Jan Wagner: Rain barrel variations. Munich 2014. p. 82f.
7. ↑ http://www.villamassimo.de/de/vrstltngn/fotogalerie/5003969f6d0eb220e.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ http://www.kloster-cismar.info/pdf/kollwitz.pdf
9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2012 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.  
10. ↑ http://galerie-kirbach.de/?Jan-Kollwitz
11. ↑ http://www.smb.museum/smb/kalender/details.php?objID=29757  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2012 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.  

Web links

• http://www.jankollwitz.de
• http://www.puckergallery.com/pdf/Kollwitz%202012.pdf
• http://galerie-kirbach.de/?Jan-Kollwitz