Marlies Ameling

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Marlies Ameling (born February 14, 1952 in Ohrdruf , Thuringia ) is a German designer and industrial designer . She is one of the most important German industrial designers. She is best known for her various glass collections.

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Marlies Ameling was born on February 14, 1952 in the small town of Ohrdruf in the Thuringian district of Gotha and completed her training as an industrial clerk in 1970 with the Abitur . Subsequently, from 1971 to 1976, she studied at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein , with Professor Lothar Zitzmann , among others . She was also active at the university under Professor Ilse Decho . During her studies, she also met her future husband Lothar Ameling (1950-2013), whom she married in 1978. It was mainly through Decho, who was one of the most famous glass and porcelain designers of her time, that Ameling discovered her love for glass shaping. The postgraduate put them also on the Giebichenstein off after she had continued her studies thereat 1976-1978. Already in 1976 she belonged to the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and remained loyal to it until reunification in 1990.

From 1979 Ameling worked as a designer. A year later she received the design advancement award . From 1984 she was the artistic director of the Harzkristall glass factory , which had been taken over by the Halle University of Industrial Design 18 years earlier and which became fiduciary property after reunification. After the state of Saxony took over the manufacture in 1993 under the name Staatliche Glasmanufaktur Harzkristall GmbH , it was not returned to private ownership until October 1, 2004. Between 1980 and 1988 she received various medals for good design at the Leipzig trade fair . Marlies Ameling, who has their son Michael with her husband, but who grew up with his father in Halle while his mother lived and worked in the Harz region, received her Facultas Docendi in 1989 and was an honorary lecturer at the Halle University of Industrial Design that year , Giebichenstein Castle. From 1992 on, she was responsible for marketing and sales in the Harzkristall glass factory and for product development for the international market.

In 1997 she received the Marianne Brandt Prize for Design from the state of Saxony-Anhalt . Since 2005 she has been working as a freelancer in Wernigerode , where she lived with her husband Lothar until his death in 2013. In the 1990s she and her husband helped to set up the Wernigerode Art and Culture Association , and her husband also managed the gallery on the first floor of the club building for two years. In 2007 she finished her work at the Harzkristall glass factory, where she had been in charge of marketing and sales since 1992. From April 1, 2010 to the end of 2017, Marlies Ameling was the managing director of the Wernigeröder Bürgerpark with the Köhlerteich and the Little Harz . Before that, Ameling was in charge of the demonstration workshop in the Kleiner Harz miniature park .

Exhibitions

While she was still a student, Marlies Ameling was involved in various exhibitions and from 1974 onwards was at exhibitions in Milan , Linz , Budapest and Moscow . Furthermore, she was on the VIII., IX. and X. Art Exhibition of the GDR , the last three art exhibitions up to reunification. Between 1982 and 1988 she was also represented at the GDR Glass Art , another major state exhibition, in the Berlin gallery on Unter den Linden . In 1984 she was an exhibitor in the Glass Museum in Riihimäki , in southern Finland , followed by an exhibition in 1988 in the Design Center Stuttgart . In 1989 she was represented at the joint exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and the Office for Industrial Design, served in Berlin.

An exhibition at INNOVENTA in Berlin followed two years later ; In 1995 another group exhibition , this time with her husband Lothar, in the gallery on the first floor of the Wernigerode Art and Culture Association. After participating in the traveling exhibition of the Design Center Saxony-Anhalt and the personal exhibition at the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle in 2003, she had another participation in the exhibition Consumer Goods - East German Design with Tradition in Leipzig , Frankfurt and Hanover in 2005 . Various of her works are now in public ownership, including the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle , the Grassimuseum in Leipzig, the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin-Köpenick , Branitz Castle near Cottbus and Pillnitz Castle in Dresden .

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