Peter Lakotta

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Colored dot grid, oil on hardboard, 49 × 55 cm (1976)

Peter Lakotta (* 15 August 1933 in Hamburg , † 3. September 1991 in Kassel ) was a German painter and ceramist of informal . He belonged to the artist collective of the Kassel School for Ceramics .

Life

Peter Lakotta was born in Hamburg. He grew up in Eberswalde / Brandenburg and Fritzlar in Hesse . After completing his Abitur at the König-Heinrich-Schule there in 1955 , where Lakotta was influenced by Erich Tursch , who worked there as an art teacher , he studied painting with documenta founder Arnold Bode from 1955 to 1960 at the State University of Fine Arts in Kassel and ceramics as a master student with Walter Popp . He was involved in the exhibition First German Youth Art Prize 1959. German Art 1959 II at the Baden-Baden State Art Gallery . In the same year he showed painting in the exhibition Young German Painters organized by the Kunstverein Kassel as a supporting program for documenta II .

After completing his teaching post in Marburg from 1960 to 1962 , he worked as a consultant at the German Design Council until 1966 . From 1966 to 1972 he was an art teacher at the Kassel Herderschule . From 1966 he worked as a freelance artist in Kassel. He became known nationwide especially for his ceramic work. In 1981 Christa Moering showed his oil paintings and collages in her Wiesbaden gallery Atelier Moering .

Works in collections

Important ceramics by Peter Lakotta can be found in the Modern Ceramics Collection of the 20th Century in Villa Ludwigshöhe Palace in Edenkoben . They belonged to the collection of Lotte Reimers and Jakob Wilhelm Hinder in the Museum of Modern Ceramics in Deidesheim , which was added to the holdings of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier in 1993 and its current location in 2005. A vase from the Deidesheim collection was exhibited in 1972 as an example of lava or tiger glaze at the World Cultures and Modern Art exhibition shown on the occasion of the 1972 Olympics in the Munich House of Art .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Helmut Lokau: The failed institutionalization. A critical assessment of the reception of contemporary ceramics in Germany after 1945. Diss. Univ. Freiburg / Br. 2008, p. 120 note 256; PDF online  in the German Digital Library
  2. ↑ Jakob Wilhelm Hinder: On the development of the new German ceramics (Part 5) , in: Keramische Zeitschrift Vol. 21, 1969, p. 50 f.
  3. ^ Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (Ed.): German Art 1959 II. First German Art Prize for Young People 1959 ... from September 12 to October 18. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden 1959, undated [S. 27].
  4. ^ Young German painters. Exhibition of the Kasseler Kunstverein e. V. in connection with the II Documenta '59 from 11.7. until 8/10/1959. Kassel, 1959. Catalog No. 37-40. Online , accessed April 26, 2017.
  5. ↑ artists , keramik-sammlung.de
  6. ↑ Modern ceramics of the 20th century - The Hinder / Reimers Collection of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , keramik-sammlung.de
  7. ↑ Tabby glazes. In: World Cultures and Modern Art. The encounter of European art and music in the 19th and 20th centuries with Asia, Africa, Oceania, Afro- and Indo-America. Bruckmann, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7654-1464-6 , p. 362: No. 1320.
personal data
SURNAME Lakotta, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German informal painter and ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1991
Place of death kassel