Ceramic Symposium Gmunden
The Gmunden Ceramic Symposium is an international symposium for artists of modern ceramics in Gmunden am Traunsee in Upper Austria .
history
Beginnings 1963–1978
The symposium was founded in 1963 by the Austrian ceramic artist Kurt Ohnsorg (who ran his summer studio at the time in Gmunden at the foot of the Grünberg ). Ohnsorg was inspired by the pioneering sculptor symposia organized by artist colleague Karl Prantl in the Roman quarry St. Margarethen since 1959 and created the first symposium in the world specifically for ceramic art.
It took place six times in Gmunden under Ohnsorg's direction (organized by the “Gmunder Exhibition Association” and the Vienna “Josef Hoffmann Seminar for Ceramic Design” ), initially (1963) as the “Gmunden Summer Seminar for Ceramics” , then until 1967 under the name “ International Gmundner Summer Seminar for Ceramics ” . The 6th Symposium in 1969 was then named “6. International Ceramics Symposium Gmunden ” , and an“ Association of International Ceramics Symposium Gmunden ”was launched as a sponsoring association.
The symposium was conceived as a ceramic workshop and seminar in cooperation with the Austrian Sanitary Ceramic and Porcelain Industry Corporation ( ÖSPAG ) (brand names Lilienporzellan and Austrovit sanitary ceramics), which was taken over in 1967 by “ Laufen-Keramik ”. ÖSPAG made its production facility in Gmunden-Engelhof available for the artistic activities.
The first symposium in 1963 (in addition to the ÖSPAG mentioned above) was also supported by the Gmundner company Schleiß -Keramik, the last symposium in 1969 by the company Gmundner Keramik .
With the suicide (1970) of Kurt Ohnsorg, who was only appointed professor at the then "Art School of the City of Linz" in 1969, and the end of the cooperation with ÖSPAG after it was taken over by Laufen (company) , the symposium lost its anchor points in Gmundner. There were attempts to continue it from 1970 under the direction of Kurt Spurey , but the other ceramic symposia in the Gmunden tradition initially took place in other places, such as in 1972 in Stoob ( Burgenland ) or 1974 in Vösendorf ( Lower Austria ). In 1978 a ceramic symposium took place for the last time under the direction of Kurt Spurey in Gmunden as “7. International Ceramic Symposium Gmunden ”.
Basics from 1989
From 1989 the artistic tradition at the location of the porcelain and ceramic production in Gmunden was revived by the organization of the ceramic weeks in Gmunden , which has been held annually since then . Here, the so-called pottery market in Gmunden was joined from the beginning (on the initiative of Günter Praschak , the successor of Kurt Ohnsorg at what is now the University of Artistic and Industrial Design Linz , and Maria Baumgartner , who also taught there from 1986 ), an accompanying program with art exhibitions and Symposia, called " accents ". On the basis of an artistic tradition, which has since grown again, the concept of an international artist symposium was revived and re-implemented in 2003.
New start from 2003
Co-initiator (in addition to the city of Gmunden and the ceramics department at the Art University Linz ) and main sponsor was and is the remaining significant Gmundner ceramics company, the traditional Gmundner ceramics factory (owner at the time Johannes Graf v. Moy ), which was founded on the occasion of the 100th -year anniversary at the Gmunden location (= since 1903 as "Schleiss-Keramik") in 2003 as a sponsor. Since then, the symposium has been given the additional name "KUNST.WERKSTATT der Gmundner Keramik" .
The Gmunden Ceramics Symposium has been officially sponsored by the Association for the Promotion of European Ceramic Artists . The symposium is organized together with the above-mentioned Gmunden Ceramic Weeks by the cultural department of the city of Gmunden.
The ceramic symposium as a traveling exhibition
A special feature of the Gmunden Ceramics Symposium since 2003 is that the works created there are then presented in various locations and art museums throughout Europe in the form of a traveling exhibition. Details can be found in the following overview.
Topics, participants, exhibition locations
At the seminars / symposia led by Kurt Ohnsorg, the participants were selected by Ohnsorg in his capacity as artistic director of the “Josef Hoffmann Seminar for Ceramic Design” (co-organizer of the symposia), from 1964 onwards from a growing number of international registrations.
Participation in the "new" Gmunden ceramics symposium from 2003 was and will be advertised internationally (Europe-wide), the participants selected by a jury , and the exhibition of the works accompanied and curated by an advisory board .
Here is an overview of the previous symposia including the forerunners 1963–1978:
| Year (no.) | Jury / Advisory Board (Chair), Head | any work topic | Participants selected by the jury / management | Exhibition locations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 (1) | Kurt Ohnsorg (AUT) Management and selection | no work topic | Günter Praschak , Kurt Ohnsorg , Waltraud Thalhammer , Franz Schermann, Eva Müller, Robert Sturm, Edith Köller (all AUT) and others. a. | Gmunden : (a) Atelier Kurt Ohnsorg , (b) Rathaussaal Gmunden; today also: (c) Kammerhof-Museen Gmunden, ceramic collection |
| 1964 (2) | Kurt Ohnsorg (AUT) Management and selection | Working topic: Shapes | Ilona Benkö (HUN), Hans Lifka (CH), Edith Kasza (HUN), Barbara Nägerl (AUT), Kurt Ohnsorg , Elisabeth Prantner, Uta Prantl-Peyrer (both AUT), Sami Rafi (EGY), Dorothea Saipt, Ursula Schröcksnadel (all AUT), Zbynek Sekal (CZE), Vera Szekely (HUN), Ulrike Vukovich (AUT) | Gmunden : (a) Atelier Kurt Ohnsorg , (b) ÖSPAG factory premises; today also: (c) Kammerhof-Museen Gmunden, ceramic collection |
| 1965 (3) | Kurt Ohnsorg (AUT) Management and selection | Working topic: space and color | Genia Berger (ISR), Heinz Frech (AUT), Brian Glover (GB), Gerda Lepschi (AUT), Hans Lifka (CH), Maya Lightbody (CAN), Barbara Nägerl (AUT), Karel Nepras (CZE), Kurt Ohnsorg (AUT), Joszef Peri (HUN), Anneliese Reischke-Jahn (GER), Ernst Riedler (AUT), Lynn Settje (USA), Zbynek Sekal (CZE), Anna M. Smith (USA), Vera Szekely (FRA), Lubor Těhník (CZE), Olgierd Truszynski (POL), Angela Varga, Alfred Zinhobel (both AUT)) | Gmunden : (a) Atelier Kurt Ohnsorg , (b) ÖSPAG factory premises; today also: (c) Kammerhof-Museen Gmunden, ceramics collection, plus: (d) ceramics by artists from 12 countries , International Artist Club (IKC), Palais Pálffy , Vienna (works of the 2nd and 3rd Ceramic Symposium Gmunden 1966 ). |
| 1966 (4) | Kurt Ohnsorg (AUT) Management and selection | Work topic: variety of techniques | Charles K. Baxter (USA), Maud Friedland (IRL), Marian Haissmann – Magelund (DAN), Gernot Mühlbacher, Barbara Niemann, Kurt Ohnsorg , Anton Raidel (all AUT), Klaus Schultze (GER), Václav Ńerák (CZE), Robert Stultiens (NED), Ernst Rieder, Alfred Zinhobel (both AUT) | Gmunden : (a) Atelier Kurt Ohnsorg , (b) ÖSPAG factory premises; at that time also (c) Kammerhof-Galerie Gmunden ; later also (d) Kammerhof-Museen Gmunden, ceramics collection |
| 1967 (5) | Kurt Ohnsorg (AUT) Management and selection | Working topic: vessels | James K. Amoah (GHA), Perla de Bardin (ARG), Leif Helge Neger (NOR), Siegfried Enk (AUT), Helen Goldberg (USA), Hubert Groiemert (GER), Bernhard Griess, Hans Haumer, Manfred Kohl (all AUT), Rufin Kominek (POL), Justine Liebmann (AUT), Hans Lifka (CH), Anders Liljefors (SWE), Juraj Marth (CZE), Patriciou Mattescu (ROM), Jean Mayer, Gedula Ogen (both ISR), Kurt Ohnsorg , Ernst Riedler, Gerda Spurey, Kurt Spurey (all AUT), Imre Schrammel (HUN), Maria Voyatsoglu (GRE), Alfred Zinhobel (AUT) | Gmunden : (a) Atelier Kurt Ohnsorg , (b) ÖSPAG factory premises; in addition (c) International Artist Club (IKC), Palais Pálffy , Vienna ; today also (d) Kammerhof-Museen Gmunden, ceramic collection |
| 1969 (6) | Kurt Ohnsorg (AUT) Management and selection | Work topic: Industry, large-scale trade and free plastic | Henri Abiola (NIG), Josef Blumenthal (ISR), Yoko Gunji (JAP), Tony Franks, David Hamilton (both GB), Marit Lindberg (SWE), Janos Majoros (HUN), Kurt Ohnsorg (AUT), Filiz Osgüven (TUR ), Primula Pandit (IND), Aisaku Suzuki (JAP), Kurt & Gerda Spurey (AUT), Lubor Těhník (CZE), Annerie Teuling (NED), Peter Weihs (AUT)) | Gmunden : (a) Atelier Kurt Ohnsorg , (b) ÖSPAG factory premises; today also: (c) Kammerhof Gmunden (exhibition of the works of the International Ceramic Symposium 1969), plus d) Kammerhof-Museen Gmunden, ceramic collection |
| 1978 (7) | Kurt Spurey (AUT) Management and selection | no work topic | Carol Abraham (USA), Franz Josef Altenburg (AUT), Jody Baral (USA), Peter Hotzy, Paul Lester, Hans Lifka (all AUT), Christian Pasuello (CAN), Günter Praschak (AUT), Cheryl Russel (CAN), Kurt Spurey , Ingeborg Strobl (both AUT), Kensaku Uke, Shohei Yuasa (both JAP), Alfred Zinhobel (AUT) | Gmunden : (a) ÖSPAG factory premises; today also: (b) Kammerhof-Museen Gmunden, ceramic collection |
| 2003 (8) (1) | Maria Baumgartner (AUT); Klaus Schultze (GER), Head, a. a. | no work topic | Franz Josef Altenburg (AUT), Laura Braspenning (NED), Hans Fischer, Jana Grzimek , Sabine Heller, Kirsten Jäschke (all GER), Juan Orti Garcia (SPA), Judith Rataitz, Barbara Reisinger (both AUT), Silvia Siemes (GER ), Anne Tyrn (EST), Gabriel Vach (CZE), Thomas Weber (GER), Arno Wilthan (AUT) | (a) KUNST.WERKSTATT der Gmundner Keramik Manufaktur, Gmunden , Austria; (b) Danmarks Ceramics Museum Grimmerhus, Middelfart , Denmark; (c) European Industrial Museum for Porcelain and Technical Ceramics, Selb- Plößberg, Germany |
| 2004 (9) (2) | Franz Josef Altenburg (AUT), Wilhelm Siemen (GER), Torbjørn Kvasbø (NOR), u. a. | Working topic: water | Petra Bittl (GER), Galina Georgieva (BUL), Anna Olivia Kristiansen (DEN), Rebecca Maeder (SUI), Simone Perrotte (FRA), Sonja Reisenberger (AUT), Fausto Salvi (ITA), Signe Schjoeth (DEN), Simone van Bakel, Andrea Wach (both NED), Bert Walter (GER), Silvia Zotta (ITA) | (a) KUNST.WERKSTATT der Gmundner Keramik Manufaktur, Gmunden , Austria; (b) Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza , Italy; (c) European Industrial Museum for Porcelain and Technical Ceramics, Selb- Plößberg, Germany |
| 2006 (10) (3) | Gabi Dewald (GER), Margarete Geffke (AUT), János Probstner (HUN), u. a. | Work topic: Large-format ceramics | Tanja Estermann, Senta Fabsits (both AUT), Myriam Jiménez Huertas (SPA), Ferenc Koleszár (HUN), Maren Koll (GER), Helene Kortner (NOR), Gareth Mason (GB), Júlia Néma (HUN), Sabine Selmke ( GER), Annie Turner (GB), Netty van Osch (NED), Carolin Wachter (GER) | (a) KUNST.WERKSTATT der Gmundner Keramik Manufaktur, Gmunden , Austria; (b) Galerie im Freihof Sulz (Vorarlberg) , Austria; (c) Ceramic Museum Westerwald , Höhr-Grenzhausen , Germany; (d) Museo Nacional de cerámica y artes suntuarias “Gonzalez Martí”, Valencia , Spain; (e) Gallery in the Kulturzentrum Kapfenberg , Austria |
| 2008 (11) (4) | Katja Miksovsky (AUT), Elisabetta Bovina (ITA), Dominique Forest (FRA), u. a. | Working topic: New ways in ceramics | Ingrid Askeland (NOR), Doris Becker (LUX), Roberto Cambi (ITA), Coralie Courbet, Raphael de Villers (both FRA), Stefan Engel (GER), Silvia Mornati (ITA), Johannes Nagel (GER), Iva Ouhrabková ( CZE), Silvia Siegl (AUT), Petra Stastná (CZE), Elisabeth Wedenig (AUT) | (a) KUNST.WERKSTATT der Gmundner Keramik Manufaktur, Gmunden , Austria; (b) Westerwald Ceramics Museum , Höhr-Grenzhausen , Germany; (c) Kunststation Kollmitzberg , Austria; (d) Museum Pachen in Rockenhausen , Germany; (e) Imperial Hofburg (Innsbruck) , Austria; (f) Gallery in Bourglinster Castle , Junglinster , Luxembourg; (g) Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza , Italy |
| 2010 (12) (5) | Hanspeter Dähler (SUI), Frank Louis (AUT), Zsuzsa Füzesi (HUN), u. a. | Working topic: Exchange | Réka Bisztriczky (HUN), Imke Freiberg (GER), Audrius Janusonis (LIT), Saara Kaatra (FIN), Michal Kusik (SLK), Barnabás Máder (HUN), Sibylle Meier (SUI), Joel Philippe Parrot Lagarenne (FRA), Rave Puhm (EST), Elke Sada (GER), Alina Sauter (AUT), Gerda Steegmans (NED) | (a) K-Hof, Kammerhof Museum Gmunden , Austria; (b) Porzellanikon - The museums in Hohenberg and Selb , Germany; (c) Smissebroek Ruimte voor Kunst, Wellen , Belgium; (d) Stehr ceramics workshop, Tornesch , Germany; (e) Atelierhaus Salzamt , Linz , Austria |
| 2013 (13) (6) | Diethard Grimmer (AUT), Piotr Kielan (POL), Gabi Dewald (GER), u. a. | Working topic: Innovations | Susanne Altzweig (GER), Sofia Beça (POR), Cristina Simona D`Alberto (ITA), Mateusz Grobelny (POL), Ana Cecilia Hillar (ITA), Karin Karinson Nilsson (SWE), Weronika Lucińska (POL), Valentin Manz ( GB), Sara Möller (SWE), Vivien Schneider-Siemssen, Daniel Wetzelberger (both AUT), Stijn Yperman (BEL) | (a) KUNST.WERKSTATT der Gmundner Keramik Manufaktur, Gmunden , Austria; (b) Gallery of the Cselley Mill , Oslip , Austria; (c) Imperial Hofburg (Innsbruck) , Austria; (d) Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza , Italy; (e) Ceramic Museum Westerwald , Höhr-Grenzhausen , Germany; (f) Muzeum Ceramiki-Dzial Historii Miasta, Bolesławiec , Poland |
| 2015 (14) (7) | Claudia Casali (ITA), Gabi Dewald (GER), Frank Louis (AUT), u. a. | no work topic | János Fischer, Anna Dorothea Klug (both GER), Sofie Norsteng (NOR), Giorgio di Palma (ITA), Eva Pelechová (CZE), Eva Roucka (CZE), Giovanni Ruggiero (ITA), Kim Sangwoo (SUI), Andreas Vormayr , Heidrun Weiler (both AUT) | (a) KUNST.WERKSTATT der Gmundner Keramik Manufaktur, Gmunden , Austria; (b) Kunštát Castle , Kunštát , Czech Republic; (c) Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza , Italy; (d) Keramion , Frechen b. Cologne, Germany; (e) Deutschvilla , Strobl , Austria |
| 2018 (15) (8) | Nani Champy Schott (FRA), Gabi Dewald (GER), Lilli Hollein (A), Matteo Zauli (ITA), u. a. | no work topic | Enrica Casentini (ITA), Beate Gatschelhofer (AUT), Jonathan Keep (GB), Helene Kirchmair (AUT), Yara Lettenbichler (AUT), Hélène Loussier (FRA), Annette Lucks (GER), Aino Nebel (GER), Tomasz Niedzio (POL), Brigitte Pénicaud (FRA) | (a) K-Hof - Kammerhof Museum Gmunden , Austria; (b) LAUFEN INNOVATION HUB at Marienstiege, Vienna , Austria; (c) Galerie Scharmüller, Fornach , Austria; (d) Westerwald Ceramics Museum , Höhr-Grenzhausen , Germany; (e) Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza , Italy; (f) La Piscine Roubaix Museum , France |
Sources and web links
- Kurt Ohnsorg: International Gmunden summer seminar for ceramics 1964 . In: Upper Austria. Landscape, culture, economy, tourism, sport (magazine); Vol. 14 (1964), Issue 3/4, pp. 40-41;
- Kurt Ohnsorg (Ed.): International Summer Seminar for Ceramics 1964 , Vienna 1964: Erwin Metten GmbH (32 sheets);
- Kurt Ohnsorg (Ed.): International Summer Seminar for Ceramics 1965: Space and Color , Vienna 1965: Erwin Metten GmbH (22 sheets);
- Kurt Ohnsorg (Ed.): International Summer Seminar for Ceramics 1966 , Vienna 1966: Erwin Metten GmbH (12 sheets);
- Kurt Ohnsorg (ed.): International Summer Seminar for Ceramics 1967 , Vienna 1967: Erwin Metten GmbH (14 sheets);
- Kurt Ohnsorg (ed.): 6th International Ceramic Symposium Gmunden , supplement to the magazine kunst + handwerk, No. 10/69, unpag. Pp. I-XII;
- Homepage of the Ceramic Symposium Gmunden , queried January 4, 2017;
- Catalogs of the symposia 2003–2015, available online from the above-mentioned homepage of the Ceramic Symposium Gmunden (currently only until 2013); all also available in the German National Library - DNB ;
- Report on the 2013 symposium , requested January 10, 2017;
- Press release for the 2003 symposium , requested January 4, 2017;
References and comments
- ↑ Laufen ceramics: Gmunden production facility. In : run.com. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
- ↑ "Engelhof" is the district in the east of Gmunden, which also housed the old local train station of the Lambach-Gmunden local railway
- ↑ cf. Gabi Dewald (2003): Die Keramiksymposien Gmunden: History, in: Association for the Promotion of European Ceramic Artists (ed.): Keramiksymposium Gmunden 2003, Gmunden, pp. 6–9, also online , queried January 4, 2017.
- ↑ The organizer was the one with Franz Schleiss as chairman, and he made his "studio house" and the laboratories of the "ceramic workshop Schleiss" available for the execution of the work, cf. René Edenhofer: Kurt Ohnsorg, life stages 1927–1970, in: Carl Aigner / Reinhard Linke (eds.): Kurt Ohnsorg. Ceramics with passion, Weitra 2017: Library of the Province , p. 13.
- ↑ This provided (in addition to the ÖSPAG with its locations Wilhelmsburg and Gmunden-Engelhof) their Gmund work for some of the participants.
- ↑ Information about the art school of the city of Linz in the art database Basis Wien , queried January 4, 2017.
- ↑ s. Kurt Spurey's biography , queried January 14, 2017.
- ↑ see Association of International Ceramic Symposia (ed.): International Ceramic Symposium July 8-1 to August 3, 1974, Vösendorf; Dedicated to Kurt Ohnsorg , Gmunden 1974
- ↑ Information on the Gmundner pottery market and its events , requested on January 4, 2017.
- ↑ The former second important Gmunden ceramic company ÖSPAG, sponsor and co-sponsor of the first symposia 1963–1978, stopped its Gmunden porcelain production in 1990 (sanitary ceramics are still being produced).
- ↑ Information on the 1965 exhibition , requested on January 17, 2017.
- ↑ new count after the relaunch in 2003
- ↑ Link to the publication in Austria. ÖNB library network , queried January 10, 2017
- ↑ Link to the publication in the ÖNB , requested on January 10, 2017.
- ↑ Link to the publication in the DNB , requested on January 10, 2017.