Leslie L. Lane

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Leslie L. Lane (born May 8, 1941 in London ) is a British designer who has lived in Carinthia ( Austria ) as an industrial designer and visual artist since 1970 .

Life

Leslie Lane studied industrial design and metallurgy at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design . He worked as a designer for Philips in Eindhoven, Milan and Klagenfurt. After working in the Carinthian company Hirsch Armbänder , for which Lane designed the logo and the well-known logo clasp in the 1970s, he first set up an office for industrial design and commercial graphics in Klagenfurt and later also ran a second office in Vienna. Lane was married and has two sons.

After his active professional life as a designer, he was a member of the cultural committee of the state of Carinthia.

Although he was not a member of the Art Association for Carinthia, he already had a solo exhibition in the Carinthian State Gallery, today's Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, in the 1980s  . Lane was a member of the BV Professional Association of Carinthian Artists for several years. As an artist and exhibition organizer, he is known beyond the borders of Carinthia.

Leslie Lane has exhibited over 700 artists, initiated art in the workplace as early as the 1970s and established bracelets at Hirsch, among others .

Further exhibition series took place for Treibacher Chemische Werke , for which Lane also designed the octagonal logo, for the Carinthian Chamber of Commerce and for the Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government .

Works in public space

The city of Klagenfurt bought its millennium needles. With a height of 4.8 meters, the sculpture stands at the exit of the Süd Autobahn Klagenfurt Nord.

Another stele is located in the sculpture park of the Carinthian regional hospital. 

His well-known designs include the Substral 2-liter bottle designed in the late 1970s and still produced today, as well as the hanging street lighting by Austria Email Licht- und Umwelttechnik AELUT , in some Austrian cities.

Awards and exhibitions (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the list of committee members in the Culture Report of the Province of Carinthia 2001 , Culture Department of the Province of Carinthia (PDF, 1.9 MB). Retrieved April 14, 2020
  2. ^ State Prize for Design Archive 1990. "Vulcano" bowls and vase. Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, accessed on April 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Culture Report of the Province of Carinthia 2001 , Culture Department of the Province of Carinthia (PDF, 1.9 MB). Page 69.Retrieved April 13, 2020
  4. ↑ Klagenfurter Stadtgalerie shows “Boeckl, Schiele, Klimt…” , accessed on April 13, 2020
  5. ↑ ALPEN ADRIA DESIGN - Carinthia - Slovenia - Friuli-Venezia Giulia , basis wien, research and documentation center for modern and contemporary art, accessed on April 13, 2020
  6. ^ Exhibition catalog Biennale Austria 2002, Klagenfurt
  7. ↑ [1]
  8. ↑ [2]
  9. ↑ Designer Leslie Lane shows works in galerie.kärnten. In: OTS. July 9, 2003, accessed April 26, 2020 .
  10. ^ Meeting of industry and art in Althofen
  11. ^ Biennale Austria 2006 , basis wien, research and documentation center for modern and contemporary art, accessed on April 13, 2020
  12. ^ David Mase , Klagenfurt City Gallery. Exhibition archive 2013.
  13. ↑ Leslie Lane to initiate Forest Football , July 23, 2019

Web links

www.lane.at

personal data
SURNAME Lane, Leslie L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lane, Leslie Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British industrial designer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH London