Lothar Scholz

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Lothar Scholz (born June 27, 1935 in Boizenburg / Elbe ; † April 3, 2015 there ) was a German artist whose main activity was tile design . He was involved in the design of over 600 buildings, including swimming pools, schools, hospitals, hotels, train stations and residential and commercial buildings.

Life

Mural ( Saint Florian ) at the Boizenburg fire station.

Lothar Scholz was born the son of a musician and a factory worker, he had five siblings. After attending school, he completed an apprenticeship as a ceramic moulder in the Boizenburg tile factory from 1950 to 1951. From 1951 to 1954 he studied the subject building ceramics at the College of Applied Arts Wismar Heiligendamm , then he studied until 1958 at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weissensee in the field of ceramics . From 1958 Lothar Scholz was involved in founding the specialist department for mosaic design and execution in the VEB Stuck und Naturstein Berlin, which he headed until 1966. In 1965 he became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

Since 1966 Lothar Scholz worked in his own studio and workshop for mosaic and tile painting in Berlin-Lichtenberg , in which he employed two assistants. He worked on government and municipal commissions in many areas of architecture. In 1980 his daughter Lorén Scholz joined his workshop. In 1988 Lothar Scholz moved his place of work to Vorderhagen, a district of the municipality of Teldau near Boizenburg, after a farm was acquired there in 1984. The Berlin workshops were continued by Lorén Scholz and closed in 1993.

In 1992 and 1993 Lothar Scholz was a visiting professor at the international Evterscole in Vamdrup, Denmark . In 1995 he was one of the co-founders of the First German Tile Museum Boizenburg e. V. , of which he was the first chairman since 1999. From 1997 to 2007 Scholz worked as a freelancer for design development in the Boizenburg tile factory.

Awards

  • 1975 Art Prize of the City of Halle-Neustadt
  • 2001 Ludwig Reinhard Culture Prize of the Ludwigslust district
  • 2006 honorary citizen of Boizenburg

Works

From 1969 to 1975 Lothar Scholz, in collaboration with the Spanish artist Josep Renau, created four monumental exterior murals totaling 1,500 square meters in tiles in the Halle-Neustadt educational center . In 1971 he designed and made a 122 square meter tile mural at Oberschule III in Boizenburg. Lothar Scholz had various solo and collective exhibitions at home and abroad.

Web links

Commons : Lothar Scholz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcel Gäding: Beautiful ceramics and old junk in the Kaskelkiez. In: bezirks-journal.de. July 1, 2014, accessed June 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Awarding of culture prizes in the Ludwigslust and Parchim districts from 1998 to 2011. (PDF) In: www.kreis-lup.de. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
  3. ^ First German Tile Museum eV: Tile art and painting - Lothar Scholz for the 75th exhibition: May 21 to August 8, 2010. Accessed June 1, 2017 .
  4. ^ A b Klaus Dittrich: Lothar Scholz, An outstanding contemporary tile artist. In: Verlag Neue Keramik (Ed.): New Ceramics, The European Ceramics Magazine. No. 2 March / April 2015, pp. 8–13 ( digitized version  [PDF; accessed on June 1, 2017]).
  5. ^ Hans van Lemmen: 5000 Years of Tiles. Smithsonian Books, Washington 2013, ISBN 978-1-588343-98-7 , p. 264.
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tile artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Boizenburg / Elbe
DATE OF DEATH 3rd April 2015
Place of death Boizenburg / Elbe