Mile Prerad

Foundation of Life , 1987, Dortmund

Mile Prerad ( Serbian - Cyrillic Миле Прерад , * 1946 in Niševići ( Prijedor , Bosnia and Herzegovina )) is a Serbian- Bosnian- German sculptor .

Life

Sculpture in Breege, Lobkewitz, Rügen

Adam and Eve , Dortmund

Prerad spent his childhood and youth in his birthplace and attended the "Vuk Karadžić" elementary school in Omarska , before moving to Zagreb and from 1963 he attended the sculpture department at the Art School. In 1966 he emigrated to Germany, where his father was already living as a miner in the Ruhr area, settled in Menden and completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter and roofer. He married in 1968, followed by the master craftsman examination in 1980.

In addition to his job, he attended the summer art academy in Trier in 1977 and worked as an artist. Initially his works were made from wood, later also from granite. In 1986 he was awarded the art prize of the city of Menden. In the following years he took part in exhibitions and created large-format sculptures that were set up in public spaces, including in Dortmund and Menden.

In 1996 he handed over his roofing company to his son and moved with his wife Marie-Anne to Lobkevitz / Breege on Rügen , where he set up a new studio. In 2000, Prerad was awarded the Intra Project Prize for Complementarity of Religions of the Interreligious Office (INTR ° A). The award, endowed with 5,000 euros, is provided by the Apple Tree Foundation in Cologne .

His art projects deal with topics such as integration, faith and peace. He works mainly in wood and stone. Typical for his work are mostly wooden steles several meters high and large-format granite sculptures from Rügen boulders . “Mile Prerad comes from the folk art of Yugoslavia and has left it behind like a trail that leads back to its creator. His art is rustic and subtle at the same time - captures even the slightest shadow of the mind. "

Exhibitions (selection)

Crucifix, Parish Church of St. Blaise, Balve

• From 2012 to 2013 the special exhibition MeerSehen took place in the Meeresmuseum Stralsund, a joint exhibition with nature photographer and writer Rico Nestmann, in which numerous sculptures and object sketches by Mile Prerad were exhibited.
• 2008 Exhibition "Thoughts on the Cross" with sculptures in St. Blasius Church, Balve
• In 2007 a crucifix exhibition by Mile Prerad was shown in the Altenkirchen church.
• 1990 Serbian National Museum , Belgrade and Hanover
• 1989 Novi Sad
• 1988 Liverpool
• 1986 Menden and Mainz
• 1983 Munich
• 1978 Bergkamen City Museum / City Gallery “sole 1”: Joint exhibition Ismail Coban and Mile Prerad
• 1974/75 Zagreb
• 1973 Menden

Works in public space (selection)

Fischer , 2008, port of Breege, Ruegen

Mother's Love , 2015

• Keiler , 2019, granite sculpture, district Spycker of the municipality of Glowe, Rügen
• Spatzen , 2018, local recreation area Hexenteich, Menden
• Wieker Kogge , 2018, sculpture with the Wieker coat of arms made of beehive, Viking ship and flail, granite, Wiek
• Seehase , 2016, sculpture made of Rügen granite, port of Wiek, Rügen
• Jonas-Fisch , 2015, stone sculpture, port of Glowe, Ruegen
• Mutterliebe , 2015, sculpture made of two differently colored Rügen granite blocks, Westfalenpark , Dortmund
• Door of the chapel, 2015, wooden relief, Niševići ( Prijedor )
• Cog on the Baltic Sea from a boulder from Rügen, Sculpture Park Glowe, Rügen, 2013
• Sculptures of sea eagles, mother seals, octopus, porpoises and mussels, from Rügen boulders, Glowe Sculpture Park, Rügen
• Seal mother with young and sunning seal from boulders from Rügen, 2011, in front of and behind the Ozeaneum Stralsund , Rügen
• Image of Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten , 2008, granite sculpture in front of the Altenkirchen parish church , Rügen
• Two seals playing in the surf , sculpture made from a boulder from Rügen, 2 m × 1 m × 1 m, 2008, Deutsches Meeresmuseum , Stralsund
• Fishermen with herrings and dolphins , 2008, wooden sculpture, Breege harbor , Rügen
• Figure of Mary with Christ Child , 2005, Vitter Chapel , Vitt on Rügen
• Mother of all people , wooden sculpture, 2001, Wittelsbacher Park, Augsburg , on the occasion of the Augsburg Peace Festival . The work depicts a mother crying for her son. The symbols of all world religions are incorporated into the figure.
• People without a home , 1997, and other wooden sculptures, local recreation area Hexenteich, Menden
• Living together , 1994, local recreation area Hexenteich, Menden
• Foundation of Life , 1987, wooden sculpture, Westfalenpark, Dortmund
• Friedensbaum , 1981, sculpture made from an approx. 350-year-old oak trunk, Biebertal Leisure Center, Lendringsen (Menden)
• Crucifix, Parish Church of St. Blaise , Balve
• Adam and Eve , wooden sculpture, sculpture garden in Westfalenpark, Dortmund
• Peace tree , wood, Banja Luka , Bosnia
• Woman sculpture, oak wood, Greenfield Valley Museum, Greenfield, Flintshire

literature

• Rico Nestmann : Art Islands: Work by the sculptor Mile Prerad . Nestmann's photo, Lancken / Rügen, 2015, ISBN 978-3-934162-09-9
• Rico Nestmann: Dialogue with stone, wood and sea. Sculptor Mile Prerad is inspired by nature and the sea . In: Rügen yearbook 2014 . Association for the protection, care and development of the island of Rügen "INSULA RUGIA" eV (publisher), pp. 95–98
• Rico Nestmann: Mile Prerad: An artist biography . Nestmann's photo, Lancken / Rügen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-934162-07-5
• Carmine Gino Chiellino : The journey continues. Foreign artists in the Federal Republic . CH Beck Verlag, 1988, Munich. Portraits by 19 artists, including Mile Prerad

TV documentaries

• Carved in stone - the sculptor . NDR , September 20, 2016, length: 00:03:28. In: Nordmagazin
• Brief report on Mile Prerad. Televizija Republike Srpske , April 12, 2015
• Report on Mile Prerad and his work. Televizija Republike Srpske, December 17, 2013, length: 00:38:30
• How can you live here - foreign citizens and their art . BRD 1983, Peter Emmer, length: 00:43:13, production: BR

Web links

Commons : Mile Prerad  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Skulptura na poklon Skoli u Omarskoj . gradprijedor.com
2. ↑ Mile Prerad wakes the fish in the boulder . Ostseezeitung, April 2, 2016
3. ↑ The cross from a new perspective . WAZ, February 6, 2008
4. ↑ INTR ° A - Project Prize for Complementarity of Religions . Interreligious Office (INTR ° A)
5. ↑ Mile Prerad has lived in Germany for 50 years . WAZ, March 2, 2016
6. ↑ Reinhard Kirste: In the field of encounter between scientific discourse and practical dialogue: The Interreligious Office (INTR ° A) e. V. (PDF) p. 690
7. ↑ Work show pays tribute to Mile Prerad . WAZ, November 19, 2011
8. ↑ Manfred Escherig: Mile Prerad: An artist biography , foreword
9. ↑ Special exhibition Seeing the Sea opens in the Maritime Museum . News from the island of Ruegen, June 12, 2012
10. ↑ Prerad Mile, sculptor. ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Srpska Dijaspora 
11. ↑ Rügen: Tons heavy boar greets at the roadside . Ostseezeitung, October 9, 2019
12. ↑ Mile Prerad is dedicated to the topic of "love" . City of Menden, October 15, 2018; accessed on January 27, 2019
13. ↑ Wiek has a new landmark . Ostseezeitung, May 22, 2018
14. ↑ New sculpture at Wieker Hafen: sea hare welcomes visitors . Ostseezeitung, September 19, 2016
15. ↑ Mile Prerad creates another sculpture for the Westfalenpark . WAZ, March 4, 2015
16. ↑ Stone cog with waving sails (PDF) Ostseezeitung, July 12, 2013
17. ^ Findling creates art for the Ozeaneum . (PDF) Ostseezeitung, February 1, 2008
18. ↑ Invitation to silent prayer and viewing . ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ostsee-Anzeiger, August 15, 2007 
19. ↑ Award ceremony - Mile Prerad received an award in Weimar . ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Der Rüganer, November 1st, 2001 
20. ↑ Witch Pond Menden . Ruhr Guide
21. ^ The Menden sculpture in the Greenfield Valley Museum . geograph.org.uk; accessed on October 7, 2016