Lothar Sell

Lothar Sells sculpture "Sabinchen" in his hometown Treuenbrietzen

Terracotta sculpture "The fisherman and his wife" in Eisenhüttenstadt

Lothar Sell (born November 16, 1939 in Treuenbrietzen , † January 19, 2009 in Meißen ) was a German graphic artist , illustrator and ceramist .

Life

Lothar Sell grew up with relatives in the country without parents. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1957 to 1963 , with Hans Theo Richter among others . After working as a freelancer in Meißen from 1963, he was a master class student with Richter at the Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1966 to 1969 . From 1974 to 1990 Lothar Sell held a teaching position at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein in the ceramics department for figurative design. Lothar Sell was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR .

In 1966 he visited Moscow , Sagorsk , Suzdal , Tbilisi and the Caucasus, among others , during a three-month study trip through the Soviet Union together with the graphic artist Klaus Magnus . In 1974 another study trip took him back to the Soviet Union.

After 1990 he was active as a city ​​councilor in Meissen for the CDU .

His work includes numerous graphics, illustrations and sculptures, sometimes with a humorous, rural character "in the country".

Exhibitions

1967 - VI. German art exhibition

• from the cycle "Journey to the Soviet Union" (1966/67)

1972/73 - VII art exhibition of the GDR

• On Erwin Strittmatter "A Tuesday in December" (1970)

1977/78 - VIII. Art Exhibition of the GDR

• On Maxim Gorky "Tales of Heroes" (1977)
• To Maxim Gorki "The Brother" (1976)
• "House in Kolomenskoye (1975)

1982/83 - IX. Art exhibition of the GDR

• from the cycle "Eulenspiegel" (1981)

1987/88 - Xth art exhibition of the GDR

• from the series on Erwin Strittmatter "Wundertäter I" (1986)

more (selection)

• 1968 Berlin-Pankow
• 1969 Hötensleben
• 1970 Berlin-Köpenick , Bad Dürrenberg
• 1971 Bad Kösen , Havelberg
• 1972 Meiningen , Brandenburg an der Havel , Hoyerswerda
• 1973 Erfurt , Leipzig , Greifswald , Magdeburg
• 1974 Karl-Marx-Stadt , Hainichen , Havelberg, Rathenow , Magdeburg , Hoyerswerda
• 1975 Bernburg , Vienna
• 1986 Berlin
• 1991 Meissen
• 2008 Bohsdorf , Radebeul

Awards

• 1964 Art Prize of the City of Meissen
• 1973 3rd prize in the small sculpture competition of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR
• 1982 Art Prize of the GDR

Book illustrations

• 1976: Erwin Strittmatter: ox driver . Verlag Röderberg, ISBN 3-87682-539-3 .
• 1989: Wolfgang Sellin and Manfred Wolter: The new onion market . Eulenspiegel Verlag, ISBN 3-359-00233-4 .

literature

• Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 893-894.

Web links

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

• Literature by and about Lothar Sell in the catalog of the German National Library
• 500 citizens demand receipt of the Treuenbrietzener Rathausbrunnen , Märkische Allgemeine from January 15, 2010
• “Ox and Angels” , information on a posthumous exhibition in 2011 at the Kunstverein Meißen eV
• Audio portrait by Eva Förster, MDR Fiagro