Lothar Rentsch

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Lothar Rentsch (born December 5, 1924 in Plauen ; † May 19, 2017 ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Lothar Rentsch studied from 1942 to 1944 at the Art and Technical School for the Textile Industry in Plauen . He then completed an apprenticeship as a designer for decorative fabrics in the industrial works in Plauen until 1943 . Military service followed from 1943 to 1945. From 1946 to 1947 he attended the textile school in Chemnitz and then worked as a designer for decorative fabrics in Plauen until 1952. In 1949 he was accepted into trade union 17, division 7, which was the forerunner of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and from 1950 he was a member of the association. He has been a freelance graphic designer in Plauen since 1952. From 1953 to 1965 he had a friendship contract with VEB Bau Plauen. In 1961 he was one of the founders of the Plauener Grafikgemeinschaft and in 1969 he designed the logo for it. Study trips took him to Hiddensee, Prague, the Volga region, Irkutsk, Leningrad, Kraków, Siberia, Central Asia, Vilnius and the Caucasus. Since 1991 he has been a member of the Chemnitz Artists 'Association, the Saxon Artists' Association and the Federal Association of Visual Artists.

In March 2016 he handed over his artistic legacy to the Vogtlandmuseum Plauen .

Works

  • 1952 Head of a young girl, coal
  • 1952 head of a wrestler, coal
  • 1958 Old Bridge in Our Time, linocut
  • 1958 On the outskirts of the city, linocut
  • 1964/1965 mural in the corridor of the Reusa primary school near Plauen in collaboration with Rolf Andiel
  • 1971 Die neue Strasse (Karl-Marx-Stadt, Äußere Johnnisstrasse), linocut
  • 1979 Experienced paths, drypoint successes

Honors

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1973 Karl-Marx-Stadt, Freiberg and Erfurt
  • 1974 Plauen
  • 1975 Oelsnitz, Sömmerda, Borna, Röhta, Torgau, Döbeln and Wurzen
  • 1976 Reichenbach
  • 1977 Plauen and Freiberg
  • 1978 Grimma, Riesa, Annaberg-Buchholz
  • 1979 Falkenstein
  • 1981 Syrau and Meerane
  • also Bautzen, Bad Elster, Berlin, Dresden, Kronach, Leipzig, Munich and Rostock

Exhibition participation

  • 1958, 1967 and 1972 art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1974, 1979 and 1985 district art exhibition in Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1958 German Academy of the Arts - annual exhibition, Berlin
  • 1959 Connected to our new life. Ten years of fine arts in the GDR, German Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 1960 New Delhi
  • 1961 art exhibition at the German Academy of the Arts, Berlin
  • 1963 Exhibition 10 years of architecture, fine arts and visual folk creation in Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1970 In the spirit of Lenin, Berlin
  • 1971 Moscow
  • 1979 Irkutsk
  • 1984 Karl-Marx-Stadt retrospective
  • 2002 Examples of contemporary art from the new federal states, exhibition from the Federal Chancellery in Palais Salfeldt, Quedlinburg
  • 2011 Kynšperk nad Ohří , as part of the Central Europe Festival

literature

  • Rentsch, Lothar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 48 .
  • Helmut Kronthaler: Rentsch, Lothar . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 98, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023263-9 , p. 264.
  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 758 f .
  • Lothar Lang: Painting and graphics in East Germany . Verlag Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-932545-97-4 .
  • Council of the District of Karl-Marx-Stadt, Dept. of Culture; District art center (ed.): Retrospective 1945-1984. Fine arts in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district, exhibition on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the GDR from September 28, 1984 to February 14, 1985 . Karl-Marx-Stadt 1984, DNB  20982235X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries in the Free Press. Retrieved May 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Industriewerke Plauen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archiv.sachsen.de  
  3. ↑ Honorary citizen gives away his works
  4. ^ Waldemar Ritter (Ed.): Examples of contemporary art from the new countries . 2nd Edition. German Foundation for Monument Protection, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-935208-22-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rentsch, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH 19th May 2017