Karl Prasse

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Plastic Movement and Counter-Movement (1979), Mülheim an der Ruhr

Karl Prasse (born May 8, 1906 in Duisburg , † March 31, 1997 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) was a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

life and work

After training with the painter Max Schulze-Sölde, Karl Prasse studied painting and graphics at the industrial school in Duisburg from 1926 to 1929. In the years from 1929 to 1931 he attended the Werkkunstschule Hannover . From 1934 to 1940 he worked as a freelance painter and commercial artist . His political caricatures directed against Hitler led to his works being confiscated. His artistic work was considered " degenerate ".

After the war and imprisonment, Prasse participated in the first exhibition of the Association of Duisburg visual artists as early as 1947. From 1949 to 1950 he worked as a press illustrator. In the second half of the 1950s, Prasse designed numerous facades in the Ruhr area with geometrically abstract depictions of people using sgraffito and mosaic techniques. In 1957 Prasse was one of the founders of the Duisburg Secession . He began his sculptural work in 1958. Since 1960 he has found biomorphic and pure abstraction through figurative works . At the beginning his work was based on topics such as “Inner and Outer Form”, “Vegetative Form”, “Movement”, “Counter-Movement” and others Bringing air around and into the plastic. After the phase of sculptural design with numerous large sculptures in public space, Prasse turned back to drawing and also discovered collages and objects for himself at the end of the 1970s . As in his sculptural works, the artist was guided by the tension in the interaction of opposing elements. In the mid-1980s, the circle became the symbol of his last creative period - against the dominance of the right angle that constitutes the apartments, houses and cities, he set the form whose outer harmony is able to reconcile inner opposites. He explored the interior of the circle in a multitude of variations. With the identity of the circle as image carrier and image, Prasse finally unfolded his vision. The circle became his basic idea in the last years of his life, its closeness and tendency towards infinity inspired the wealth inside.

Prasse was a member of the Duisburger Künstlerbund, the Duisburg Secession, the Society of Friends of Young Art (Baden-Baden), the artists' association Malkasten (Düsseldorf), and the Essen Forum for Visual Artists.

The city of Mülheim an der Ruhr awarded Prasse in 1980 the Ruhr Prize for Art and Science . In 2008 the city of Duisburg named a street in Duisburg-Huckingen after him as Karl-Prasse-Weg.

Exhibitions

Since 1946, Prasse has participated in numerous exhibitions, including in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, the Kunstmuseum Duisburg, the Folkwang Museum Essen and museums in Belgrade , Rijeka and Paris . Solo exhibitions are dedicated to him, among others (a catalog was published for the exhibitions marked "K"):

  • 1972 Rheinhausen Municipal Collections
  • 1976 Municipal Museum, Mülheim an der Ruhr; K Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg (with Werner Kreuzhage) K
  • 1983 Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl / Municipal Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr K
  • 1986 Kunstverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
  • 1986 Art Pavilion City of Soest
  • 1991 Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl (on the occasion of his 85th birthday)
  • 1996 Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg (on the occasion of his 90th birthday) K
  • 2006 Karl Prasse - world view and shape . 100 years of Karl Prasse, Kunstverein Wunstorf K

Sculptures in public space

  • 1960 torso . Cast aluminum. Plinth lava basalt. (100 × 70 × 80 cm) Location: Princess-Luise-Str. 109, Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • 1962 Enclosed rooms . Location: Bebelplatz, Hattingen
  • 1964 Floating form . Copper sheets, 3 steel tubes, 300 × 200 × 150 cm. Location: City of Marl Building Administration Office, Marl
  • 1964 seams . Copper, lead, steel, 220 cm. Location: Settlement on Sonnenstrasse Duisburg - Walsum (destroyed and dismantled)
  • 1965 Dynamic form . Cast aluminum, 600 × 400 × 230 cm. Location: Lotharstr. 65, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • 1966 Gate of youthful security . Corten steel, 400 × 400 × 400 cm. Location: Bülowstraße, Mülheim an der Ruhr (distant)
  • 1966 Flowering form . Cast aluminum, 350 cm. Location: Oberhausen-Alsfeld school center
  • 1969 penetration III . Location: Hattingen, Im Reschop (removed and scrapped)
  • 1970 Convex - Concave . Stainless steel and paint. Location: Salzburger Platz, non-profit housing cooperative Duisburg-Süd
  • 1975 construction . Stainless steel, 500 × 150 × 200 cm. Location: Innsbrucker Allee 32, non-profit housing cooperative Duisburg-Süd
  • 1976 Lying torso . Aluminum, stone. Location: Retirement home, Scharpenberg 1 C, Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • 1977 fountain with five lizards . Location: Sittardsberger Allee 14, District Office Duisburg-Süd (stolen)
  • 1978 Janus head . Cast aluminum, 110 × 90 × 90 cm. Location: Böhmerstrasse 10 elementary school, Duisburg
  • 1979 movement and countermovement . Location: Heinrich-Thöne-Volkshochschule, Bergstrasse, Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • 1980 fountain sculpture . Location: Grazer Straße 30, non-profit housing cooperative Duisburg-Süd
  • 1982 Greyhound . Sheet steel. Location: Hauptschule, Kleiststr. 50, Mülheim an der Ruhr

gallery

  • Heavenly Jerusalem, 1955

  • Torso, 1960

  • Enclosed spaces, 1962

  • Floating Form, 1964

  • Dynamic form, 1965

  • Flowering form, 1966

  • Convex - Concave, 1970

  • Construction, 1975

  • Lying torso, 1976

  • Januskopf, 1978

  • Fountain sculpture 1980

  • Greyhound, 1982

literature

  • Karl Prasse: Retrospective of the sculptural work on the occasion of the traveling exhibition in the Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl and in the City Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, by Karin Stempel and Uwe Rüth , ed. from the Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl and from the Municipal Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, 1983
  • Karl Prasse, sculptures and wall paintings 21.5.-27.6.76 . Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 1976
  • Gerald Dankmeyer: Diversity of forms. On some aspects in Karl Prasse's sculptural work . paint box sheets 10 '86
  • Art and building in Duisburg from 1950 to 1986 . Duisburg, Der Oberstadtdirektor, 1987, pp. 103-106 u. 178
  • Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl. Inventory catalog 1992/93, p. 164

Web links

Commons : Karl Prasse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dorothea Minderop: world view and shape: 100 years Karl Prasse , Art Association Wunstorf
  2. ↑ a b Uwe Rüth: Karl Prasse . Duisburg Secession
  3. ↑ Enclosed spaces (NRW sculpture)
  4. ^ Sabine Weidemann: Hattinger sculpture by Karl Prasse is scrapped . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . February 22, 2018 ( waz.de [accessed January 29, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Martin Kleinwächter: Stolen sculptures in Duisburg were not insured . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . October 16, 2012 ( waz.de [accessed January 29, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Prasse, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1997
Place of death Mülheim an der Ruhr