Johanna Harre

Johanna Harre (born October 23, 1899 in Hanover ; † 1996 ) was a German artisan who made outstanding contributions to the manufacture and further development of bobbin lace .

Life

After attending a Hanoverian high school, Johanna Harre attended the arts and crafts school in Hanover. In order to promote her talent and to refine her artistry, she later studied at the art school in Weimar . Later he was a lecturer at the master school in Hildesheim . After the Second World War, she dedicated her works exclusively to bobbin lace. Mrs. Harre died in 1996. Until she was 90 she designed pictures that served as lace patterns and implemented them in her lace pictures. She only used her own designs.

In 1927 she was a founding member of GEDOK (Association of German and Austrian Artists' Associations of All Art Genres) in Hanover. Ms. Harre was most recently honored in 2007 in Hanover as part of the 80th anniversary celebration with the other founding members of GEDOK as well as at the retrospective "50 Years of Lower Saxony State Prize for the Creative Crafts ".

Services

Until well into the 19th century it was the men who made the designs for the bobbin lace while the women implemented them. As with other arts and handicrafts in general, there has been a change in meaning from the cultic and economic to the artistic in the development of bobbin lace since the beginning of the 20th century. Few female artisans have mastered and developed the artistic means of expression of lace as perfectly as Johanna Harre, her artistic work has received great international and national recognition.

Her work is characterized by a deliberate renunciation of ornamental patterns, such as those created by complicated bobbins. She mainly uses the firm linen and the dense braid and thus achieves clear patterns and transparent rhythms. At first she worked around a fine linen fabric with straight edges of almost architectural severity, which then became more and more figurative and pictorial, until she dispensed with the fabric base in order to bring out the pictorial and purposelessness of the lace even more convincingly.

It bridged the gap with strict geometric shapes and expressive contrasts between black and white, from the Bauhaus style. The artistic development of Johanna Harre's work arose without reference to the tradition of bobbin lace, solely from her inner drive.

After her death, the pictures were shown again in the Museum Abenberg for the first time in 2009.

Honors

The early recognition through competitions in Eger followed

• 1954 the bronze medal of the international Triennale Milan ,
• 1958 the Lower Saxony State Prize (first prize winner in the foundation year),
• 1964 the Bavarian State Prize,
• 1975 the 2nd prize competition "The Tree" North Germany.

Important exhibitions

• 1951 Milan Triennial
• 1955 “Dentelles Anciennes et Modernes” Bruges
• 1956/57 New German arts and crafts, traveling exhibition for Switzerland
• 1957 Milan Triennial
• 1960 International arts and crafts Stuttgart

Web links and literature

• Abenberg lace museum with special exhibition 2009 for u. a. Johanna Harre
• 80 years of Gedok - female artists' association celebrates its existence with an exhibition
• "History Working Group" of the German Lace Association (Ed.): Lace of the 20th Century 1900–1950 . 1995, ISBN 978-3934210059

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Prize Retrospective: Arts and Crafts in Lower Saxony ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.