Lutz Holland

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Lutz Holland in his studio, around 1980. Photo: Ute Krause

Lutz Holland (born January 6, 1934 in Graefenroda ; † June 29, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and metal artist .

life and work

Rostock hour clock at the Rostock five-gable house, 1986
Sandstone sculpture for Janusz Korczak , 1976

After an apprenticeship as a goldsmith in Arnstadt from 1948 to 1951 and subsequent work as a journeyman until 1953, Lutz Holland studied metal design at the College of Applied Arts in Erfurt . He continued his studies from 1954 to 1960 at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle , where his teachers included Karl Müller and Gerhard Lichtenfeld . His diploma thesis, a larger-than-life boy figure embossed in copper, was not recognized by the reviewers in times of the formalism debate. His subsequent freelance work turned out to be difficult, as he was initially not accepted into the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and thus had no opportunity to participate in an exhibition for over 13 years.

In 1966 he moved to Berlin, where he was commissioned by the Association of Visual Artists to set up a metal workshop and bronze foundry . From 1975 he was a lecturer at the Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee, initially in the Johannisthal workshops and from 1980 in the workshops in Berlin's Monbijoupark . After 1978 he was given a teaching position at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle (Saale) for a few years.

Quotes

  • “After completing his studies, Lutz Holland began ... to create works of art that, in addition to their aesthetic independence, also have utility value or at least remind of it. He draws archaic-looking female heads into the design, hands with gentle gestures and animal figures. "
  • “Lutz Holland's works explore the intellectual and structural quality, the thought, structure and growth of what surrounds him in an imaginative way. He combines small representational sculptures with symbolic-allegorical meanings as well as with a wealth of jewelry that underlines the thing and intentions that create images of man. With a clear relationship to medieval artistic attitudes and forms of work, he realizes the unity and penetration of various artistic possibilities and requirements: material suitability and the need for jewelry, transparency of the craftsmanship, clarity and rigor of the formal language, allegorical versatility, elegance and perfection of execution. "

Works (selection)

  • 1967/68 Farewell to Halle (bronze relief)
  • 1973 candlestick figure (bronze)
  • 1974–84 rider (bronze)
  • 1976 For Janusz Korczak (sandstone sculpture, Chemnitz)
  • 1978 figure with oval bowl (bronze, fire-gilt, lapis lazuli , quartz)
  • 1980 horse with rider (bronze, Berlin, Landsberger Allee)
  • 1983/84 vessel with mythical creatures (bronze, Feierabendheim Berlin)
  • 1984/85 re-encounter (bronze, Kunsthochschule Weißensee)
  • 1986 Rostock hour clock (bronze and copper chased, five-gable house Rostock, Universitätsplatz)

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1983 Leipzig
  • 1985 Frankfurt (Oder)
  • 1986 Bautzen

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1987/88 participation in the art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1975, 1977, 1981, 1983 participation in the district art exhibition in Berlin
  • 1967, 1973, 1975 plastic and flowers
  • 1986 Small plastic biennial in Budapest
  • 1987 GDR sculpture , traveling exhibition in Munich, Mannheim and Bonn
  • 1997 Graphics & Objects , Art Association "Talstrasse" , Halle (Saale)
  • 2011 Our heart is restless ...- Christian motifs in the fine arts of the GDR , Center for Cultural and Contemporary History Die Pyramid , Berlin-Marzahn
  • 2011 Metal - Art - Craft. Contemporary works by four Berlin artists ( Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin in Schloss Köpenick )
  • 2011/2012: Serving Faith - Sacred Device in Modernity (Catalog: ISBN 978-3-932962-63-9 ), Kunstverein Talstrasse in Halle (Saale)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon Artists from the GDR, New Life Publishing House , 1st edition 2010, p. 374
  2. ^ Catalog Young Art Workshop No. 5 - Lutz Holland ; Exhibition in the cabinet of the Galerie Junge Kunst, October 29, 1985 to January 5, 1986
  3. ↑ Sabine Sülflohn: Treasure digs of forms in Neue Zeit No. 257 from November 1, 1983
  4. ↑ Jens Semrau: Lutz Holland in Bildende Kunst Heft 10, 1986
personal data
SURNAME Holland, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and metal artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Graefenroda
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2012
Place of death Berlin