Klaus Lehmann (artist)

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Klaus Lehmann (1998)

Klaus Lehmann (born September 13, 1927 in Berlin ; †  June 9, 2016 in Erbach ) was a German ceramist and sculptor .

Life

Lehmann began a teacher training course in 1948 and then studied at the Werkkunstschule Kassel. From 1955 he worked with his wife Signe Lehmann-Pistorius in their own ceramic workshop in the Odenwald. The couple became known for their works made from a mixture of vessels and plastic. From 1962 at the latest, Lehmann turned away from pottery and worked as a sculptor on the basis of fired clay. From 1963 he ran his own workshop in Darmstadt.

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Klaus Lehmann mainly worked with small formats in a greatly reduced form. The work of the creative period in the 1970s and 1980s is strongly inspired by Minimal Art . In the “Container Series” he created rectangular “vessels” that are reminiscent of houses, shrines, tabernacles or boxes and whose purpose the viewer has to discover for himself. In his late work, Lehmann's forms became increasingly free and informal. Polymorphic structures emerged. In the 2000s, Lehmann worked in a single phase with strict and geometric design. At the end of the 200s he created a series of preferably ivory-white “squares” made of panels that he bordered as if with fences. Lehmann also drew extensively.

Works in museums and collections (selection)

Klaus Lehmann is represented in many European collections of ceramic art:

Solo and group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1972: German Ceramic Art of the Present Wolf Collection . Badisches Landesmuseum , Karlsruhe
  • 1979: German Ceramics '79 Westerwald Prize . Rastalhaus, Höhr-Grenzhausen
  • 1986: German ceramists , Faenza
  • 1987: vessels and sculptures , Museum of Modern Ceramics, Deidesheim
  • 1987: 4th Biennale de Chateauroux “Céramique”, Center National des Arts Plastiques, Chateauroux, France
  • 1988: 10 years of Selection and Sculpture Park in Bad Nauheim. 1979–1988 , Bad Nauheim
  • 1989: Colored plastic. Leo Erb. Klaus Lehmann , gallery in the old main fire station Mannheim
  • 1991: Prague - Linz - Coburg, group 83
  • 1993: clay sculptures . Saarland artist house Saarbrücken
  • 2004: Biennale de la sculpture en céramique , Mamer, Luxembourg
  • 2007: Solothurn Art Forum

Awards

Bibliography (selection)

  • Klaus Lehmann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 198 .
  • The third way. About the ceramic sculptor Klaus Lehmann . In: KeramikMagazin . Vol. 29, No. 4/2007, ISSN  0172-6102 . Pp. 16-21
  • Serendipity. Klaus Lehmann works exhibition . Metzger Gallery, Johannesberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-055962-4
  • Ingrid Vetter: Modern ceramics of the 20th century. Inventory catalog of the Hinder / Reimers collection of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate . Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-89790-275-6 . P. 182 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Klaus Lehmann - large in small format , Art Aurea, July 20, 2016, accessed on February 27, 2019
  2. Roland Held: In the arena of the polymorph . In: serendipity , exhibition catalog 2017
  3. Short biography of Klaus Lehmann , Galerie Metzger, accessed on February 27, 2019
  4. International Ceramics Studio - Nemzetközi Kerámia Stúdió. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  5. ^ Art collections of the Veste Coburg: Ceramic database details | European Museum for Modern Glass Rödental. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  6. German Ceramic Art of the Present Wolf Collection . Exhibition catalog, Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe 1972, p. 155
  7. German Ceramics '79 Westerwald Prize . Rastalhaus, Höhr-Grenzhausen / Montabaur 1979, ISBN 3-921548-06-3 , p. 213
  8. ^ Vessels and sculptures , Museum of Modern Ceramics, Zechner, Speyer 1987, ISBN 3-87928-872-X , p. 6
  9. 10 years of Selection and Sculpture Park in Bad Nauheim. 1979-1988 . Bad Nauheim 1988, p. 113