Lutz Brandt
Lutz-Werner Brandt (born August 7, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German architect , designer , commercial artist , set designer and painter .
Life
After an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and temporary relocation from East Berlin to West Germany between 1959 and 1961, Brandt began studying industrial design with Rudi Högner and architecture with Selman Selmanagić at the University of Fine and Applied Arts Berlin-Weißensee from 1964 to 1970 . Afterwards he was a lecturer for perspective at the university , then a master class for painting with Walter Womacka .
Freelance Brandt worked as a graphic designer, illustrator and painter until 1984. During this time he had, inter alia, cooperation in East Berlin Advisory Council for Urban Design at the head architect , here next collective design work in the context of environmental design for the emerging large size disk district Berlin-Marzahn also head of a Working group on underground and suburban train stations in the GDR capital . During this time he appeared in public, especially through architecture-related wall paintings ( murals in Berlin ) in the East Berlin city center, as a cultural poster designer a. a. for the cabaret Die Distel and as an illustrator for Das Magazin , Neue Berliner Illustrierte , Neues Leben . A poster series with satirizing fantasy mutants of the small Trabant car was created for the GDR state art trade.
After Brandt was commissioned as a GDR artist in 1982/83 to furnish the Wittenbergplatz subway station in the city of West Berlin with motifs based on historical advertising templates and he was commissioned with gable wall designs on other public buildings in West Berlin, he decided In 1984 he turned his back on the GDR and moved to West Berlin with the increasingly frustrating cultural and political schooling by the SED . Here and after the fall of the Berlin Wall again in East Berlin and in Brandenburg, he realized works in public space up to the turn of the millennium and devoted himself increasingly to large-format realistic painting, stage and film sets and murals.
The collaboration with Oscar winner Ken Adam for an American film production was a high point in the early 1990s. This was followed by a collaboration with Manfred Gruber at the German pavilion at Expo '92 in Seville, installations and murals for the Dussmann company , as well as participation in the competition for Expo 98 in Lisbon and Hanover 2000 .
Brandt worked on film and theater productions and created interior design, furniture design and facade designs. He lives as a freelance artist in Berlin.
Working in public space
- 1979 Gable wall painting on Warschauer Strasse Berlin.
- 1982 Equipment with historical advertising, Wittenbergplatz underground station .
- 1983 ceramic painting at the Lemgo School, Berlin-Kreuzberg ; Facade relief at the Lemgo School, Berlin-Kreuzberg; Gable wall painting and furnishings, counter hall, Prinzenstraße subway station ; 7 bronze figures for the facade of Loschmidt-Oberschule, Berlin-Charlottenburg ; Gable wall painting on Köpenicker Strasse , Berlin-Kreuzberg; Gable wall painting by Flume, Lützowstrasse, Berlin-Tiergarten .
- 1995 Colored sculpture for a school in Potsdam Kirchsteigfeld ; Interior mural Chip-Design, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut Berlin.
- 1997 "Architekturvision", Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann Berlin.
- 1998 mural of the Karlstrasse residential complex; Ceramic facade of Eichwalde town hall.
- 2002 Hellersdorf Helle Mitte facade concept
- 2004 Facade design Berlin-Charlottenburg, Fasanenstrasse
- 2005/09 project " Teltower Rübchen ", city sculpture
- 2008/09 overall concept for urban painting Panke -Park Berlin, Meermann-Charmartin / Vattenfall (Vattenfall oil tank with wall enclosure), Scharnhorststraße Berlin-Mitte
literature
- Günter Höhne: The great lexicon of GDR design. Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89836-676-2 , pp. 46-48.
- Lutz Brandt: CITY COUNTRY RIVER. Prospect of pictures. Edited by ArtInFlow, Verlag für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-938457-08-5
Web links
- Official website of Lutz Brandt
- Lutz Brandt at FLEXIM
- Brandenburg: Painter Lutz Brandt presents works in the Kunsthalle Brennabor . Article in the Märkische Oderzeitung from July 8, 2011
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Brandt, Lutz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brandt, Lutz-Werner (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, designer, commercial artist, set designer and painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1938 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |