Lee Young-Jae

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Lee Young-Jae (* 1951 in Seoul ) is a South Korean ceramist and has been director of the Margaretenhöhe ceramic workshop in Essen since 1986 . Her ceramic designs have been shown at national and international exhibitions and art fairs and can be found in numerous art and ceramic museums.

Life

Lee Young-Jae studied art at the College of Art Education in Seoul from 1968 to 1972. After completing her studies, she could not find a workshop in South Korea in which she could work adequately as a ceramist. In order to be able to continue her professional education, she went to Germany in 1972 to do an internship with the ceramicist Christine Tappermann in Wallrabenstein . In the following year she continued her training with a degree at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences . In addition to studying ceramics with Margot Münster, she also took courses in design with Erwin Schutzbach. During her studies she completed another internship with the ceramist Ralf Busz. After completing her professional training, she opened her own ceramic workshop in Sandhausen near Heidelberg in 1978 . In addition to freelance work in her studio, she worked as an artistic and scientific assistant at the Kassel University from 1984 to 1987 .

In 1986, together with Hildegard Eggemann, she took over the management of the Margaretenhöhe ceramic workshop in Essen, which was founded by Margarethe Krupp in 1924 . In the renowned ceramic workshop, which has been committed to the design language of the Bauhaus from the outset , Lee Young-Jae and Hildegard Eggemann developed a functional tableware series that is characterized by modern aesthetics and high craftsmanship. Lee Young-Jae and the Margaretenhöhe Ceramic Workshop received several awards for this manufactory tableware series. The ceramic workshop's manufacturing program is supplemented by Edition accessories, vases and planters. In 1993 Lee took over the sole management of the Margaretenhöhe ceramic workshop, which has had its premises on the area of ​​the former Zollverein colliery since 1987 .

Her ceramic designs, which combine the Korean traditions with the functional forms of the Bauhaus, are shown in numerous galleries, museums and exhibitions. In addition to the manufacturing program, Lee also designs vases, bowls and kummies of the Meisterstück edition. Among other things, she experiments with glazes and shapes that she burns in a wood-burning stove that she has designed. International known Lee Young-Jae was minimalist on basic geometric shapes reduced vessels, preferably with different Feldspatglasuren consisting of petalite -Eichenaschen- feldspar , wollastonite -Feldspat-, magnesium - tin -Feldspat- or barium -Feldpat mixtures.

In 2008 the Pinakothek der Moderne presented an extensive retrospective and an installation of 1111 bowls .

In 2015 she was appointed visiting professor to the ceramics department of the Art and Design College of the EWHA Womans University in Seoul. In recognition of her achievements and merits, she received an honorary doctorate from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw in 2016 .

Awards (selection)

  • 1st Prize from the Frechen Cultural Foundation (1980)
  • 2nd Prize of the Richard Bamp Prize for the Promotion of Young Ceramists, Osnabrück (1981)
  • Gold medal of the Bavarian State Prize (1989)
  • Diessen Ceramic Prize (2001)
  • Awarded an honorary doctorate from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Breslau (2016)

Exhibitions (selection)

Lee's designs have been shown in over 200 exhibitions and fairs worldwide, including a .:

Works

Lee Young-Jae initially designed the shapes of the tableware series in the manufactory program together with Hildegard Eggemann. The tableware series is still in production today and new parts are constantly being added. In addition, she created numerous masterpieces , in particular spindle and ball vases, bowls and bowls.

Her objects are shown in numerous national and international art and design museums. a. in the Museum of Asian Art (Berlin), Hetjens Museum (Düsseldorf), Museum of Applied Arts (Frankfurt am Main), Museum of Arts and Crafts (Hamburg), Grassi Museum (Leipzig), Badisches Landesmuseum (Karlsruhe), Museum for East Asian Art (Cologne) and Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich). Outside Germany, her ceramic designs are shown in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts , the Art Institute of Chicago , the Philadelphia Museum of Art , the Israel Museum (Jerusalem) and the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna).

Publications (selection)

  • Young-Jae Lee: Formen aus der Erde, Forms from the earth : Andrea Firmenich (Ed.): Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition Young-Jae Lee - Forms from the Earth in the Altana Cultural Foundation in the Sinclair House , Bad Homburg, from 18 June to August 15, 2010, Wienand, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86832-029-9 , 119 pp.
  • Young-Jae Lee: Vessels: Installations by Young-Jae Lee. LWL-Industriemuseum, Arnulf Siebeneicker (Ed.): Catalog for the exhibition in the LWL-Industriemuseum Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg, March 24 to June 16, 2013, Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2013
  • Anne-Marie Bonnet, Reinhold, Baumstark, Young-Jae Lee (Ed.): Young-Jae Lee - 1111 shells. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition Young-Jae Lee, 1111 bowls , Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, October 26, 2006 to January 28, 2007, Hatje Kanz, Ostfildern, ISBN 978-3-7757-1852-3 , 261 pp.
  • Ulrich Schumacher, Rouven Lotz and Young-Jae Lee (eds.): Young-Jae Lee and Emil Schumacher. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition Young-Jae Lee and Emil Schumacher , Emil Schumacher Museum Hagen, May - September 2013, Kettler, Bönen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86206-272-0 .
  • Juliane Juergens, Young-Jae Lee: Korean ceramics in Germany: Young-Jae Lee, Si-Sook Kang, Kap-Sun Hwang ; Exhibition Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Cismar Monastery, April 30 to June 21, 1995, 48 pp.
  • Gisela Jahn, Thomas Wagner, Young-Jae Lee: Young-Jae Lee: Ceramics 1975–1995. Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum of East Asian Art in Berlin (February to April 1996) and in the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne (May to June 1996), Jahn, Munich 1995

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ceramic workshop Margaretenhöhe: Biography. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Ceramic workshop Margaretenhöhe: Chronicle. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b DIE WELT: Zollverein: Young-Jae Lee's pottery workshop . In: THE WORLD . April 2, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed November 22, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Ceramic workshop Margaretenhöhe: MANUFACTURING PROGRAM. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Gallery Elmar Weinmayr: Young-Jae Lee. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Ceramic workshop Margaretenhöhe: MEISTERSTÜCKE. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Young-Jae Lee . In: Architecture, Design & Interior - AD Architectural Digest . ( ad-magazin.de [accessed on November 22, 2017]).
  8. ^ Hatje Cantz Publisher: Young-Jae Lee | Contemporary art | Hatje Cantz Publishing House. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Young Jae Lee. Retrieved November 22, 2017 (American English).
  10. ^ Gallery Fred Jahn: Young-Jea Lee: Gallery Fred Jahn. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Ceramic workshop Margaretenhöhe: plate. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  12. ^ K. West: Forsaken by all zeitgeists . In: K.WEST . ( Kulturwest.de [accessed on November 22, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Ceramic workshop Margaretenhöhe: Objects in museums. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Young-Jae is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Young-Jae
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean ceramic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul