Lotte Reimers

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Lotte Maria Reimers (born April 23, 1932 in Hamburg ) is a German ceramist .

Life

Reimers graduated from high school in Bad Gandersheim in 1952 . At first she wanted to become a painter, but after she got to know Jakob Wilhelm Hinder (1901–1976) with his traveling exhibition “Handicraft weaving and pottery”, she withdrew her application to the State Art School in Hamburg. Instead, she traveled with Hinder through 91 locations in West Germany for ten years.

In 1961 Reimers and Hinder settled in the small town of Deidesheim in the Palatinate . She has been creating her own ceramic vessels here since 1965. There are many materials in the Palatinate that she could use for her work, for example grapevines from Deidesheim, limestone from the Deidesheimer Kalkofen location , clay from Eisenberg , and malachite rock from a cave on the Donnersberg .

As Hinder's partner, she co-founded the Museum for Modern Ceramics in Deidesheim. Since 1961, the museum has been in Niederkircher Strasse; from 1971, with a brief interruption from 1975 to 1977, it was located in Stadtmauergasse in Deidesheim until 2005. The museum was the first of its kind in Germany; in addition to pieces by Reimers and Hinder, it also showed pieces by Ingeborg and Bruno Asshoff, Ursula and Karl Scheid, Jan Bontjes van Beek , Arno Lehmann, Robert Sturm and Beate Kuhn , which have now become classic . After Hinder's death in 1976, Reimers continued to run the museum alone. In 1993, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate took over the museum collection, which contained more than 1500 pieces. The collection has been in the vaulted cellar of Villa Ludwigshöhe in Edenkoben since 2005 .

The Lotte Reimers Foundation, founded in 1996, aims to promote the art form of ceramics. Reimers is known not only for her ceramic work, but also for her photographs and textile works.

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Büttner (Ed.): Lotte Reimers. Ceramics from 50 years. Braunschweig Municipal Museum. House on Löwenwall. Exhibition April 22–24. July 2016. Michael Imhof Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7319-0358-1 .
  • Christina Didier: Weinreb ashes for ceramics . In: Bad Dürkheim district (Hrsg.): Heimat-Jahrbuch 1992 . Print shop u. Verlag Englram, Haßloch / Pfalz 1991, ISBN 3-926775-08-4 , p. 103 f .
  • Lotte Reimers, Ingrid Vetter, Marlene Jochem, Hans-Ulrich Roller: Lotte Reimers and the ceramic art. Studio, gallery, museum, foundation . Arnoldsche, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-89790-173-0 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Berthold Schnabel : Art historical guide through the Deidesheim association . Deidesheim 1976, p. 32 .
  2. ↑ a b c Christine Didier: Weinreb ash for ceramics. In: Bad Dürkheim district (Hrsg.): Heimatjahrbuch 1992. Druckerei u. Verlag Englram, Haßloch / Pfalz 1991, ISBN 3-926775-08-4 , p. 103 f
  3. ^ A b Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities . Arwid Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 1998, ISBN 3-9804668-2-5 , p. 559 .
  4. ↑ Lotte Reimers Foundation. Lotte Reimers, accessed August 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b Lotte Reimers website , (PDF) 150 kB. Accessed October 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ Barbarossa's seal. City of Kaiserslautern, accessed on May 1, 2017 .
  7. ^ Art and contemporary history in the Palatinate. In: The Rhine Palatinate . No. 94, April 22, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Reimers, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reimers, Lotte Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg