Ragna Sperschneider

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Ragna Sperschneider (born October 9, 1928 in Halle ; † July 22, 2003 in Tenerife , née Ragna Krüger ) was a German goldsmith . She is considered to be one of the most important enamel artists of the second half of the 20th century in Germany.

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Ragna Sperschneider was the youngest of the three children of the married couple Wilhelm and Margarete Krüger. In addition to her, the couple had their daughter Gunda and their son Holm. His father worked as a drawing teacher, he began his training in Halle at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College and later completed it in Berlin and at the University of Halle . Her mother trained as a tapestry maker , so Ragna came into contact with handicrafts from an early age.

Sperschneider received the first part of her artistic training from 1945 at the Burg Giebichenstein art college with Lili Schultz and Karl Müller . Here she learned the various enamel techniques as well as the necessary metalworking. She passed her journeyman's examination for both craft techniques , in 1948 in enamel and in 1950 as a belt maker . During this time she got in touch with her future husband, Hans Sperschneider , who studied painting at Burg Giebichenstein.

After a one-year stay at the Berlin University of Fine Arts and training there with Hans Uhlmann , she moved to the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in 1951 . There she became a student of Wolfgang Tümpel , whose concentration on handicraft work went well with her previous training. Above all, she was able to perfect her skills in metalworking and, in developing her own style, benefited from Tümpel's strict and objective approach to design. Since 1953 she has participated with her works in international exhibitions. Also while she was still a student, a piece of jewelry she designed received the silver medal of the Milan Triennial in 1954 . She completed her training in 1956.

After graduating, she began working as a freelance artist in Hamburg. The Hamburg Senate , she commissioned in 1955 with the design of a variety of sports prices (especially for the German Derby and the Kieler Woche ) and guest gifts for international visitors. In 1961 she received an award from the Hamburg cultural authority for a silver tea caddy. She accepted another order in 1967 when she made an enamelled box for Farah Pahlavi on a state visit .

Various orders from the city of Hamburg followed, as well as from companies and parishes from Hamburg and the surrounding area. These included more than 13 large-format decorative panels on various new buildings, such as the Barmbek General Hospital, the telecommunications school and the State Institute of Physics at Hamburg University. An example of Sperschneider's work that is still accessible today is in the pharmacy garden in Planten un Blomen . She made the enamel panels there in collaboration with Vera Steckner-Crodel , each of the two artists created three panels, one they created together. Ragna Sperschneider received seventeen orders between 1956 and 1989 to equip churches with liturgical equipment . These works are characterized by their clear and rich formal language and the restrained use of enamel elements on metal objects.

The great public works were only part of their work. Countless household items such as dishes and vases as well as pieces of jewelry were created in an independent, unmistakable style that was characterized by shiny metal surfaces, colorful enamel, frequent use of pits and cells and clear shapes. Especially the pieces of jewelry that are hardly publicly available today found great recognition at the time of their creation. Sperschneider's artistic development reached its peak around 1970, and in the years that followed, her style hardly changed.

In 1952 Ragna and Hans Sperschneider married, they had a daughter Jacoba. Ragna Sperschneider lived in Hamburg until her death, where she worked as an artist.

Work (selection)

  • Decorative plate from Planten un Blomen

  • Communion dishes from Sasel

  • Building jewelry at the Physics Institute

Some of her works in the field of household items and jewelry are in the collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg . To commemorate her work there was an exhibition of her work eighty years after the year of her birth, which was shown in Hamburg, Halle and Coburg.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ragna Sperschneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary in the Hamburger Abendblatt from August 9, 2003.
  2. ↑ a b c Information from the Hallesches Kunstverein on Ragna Sperschneider. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ Lecture ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 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. on the silversmith's art in Hamburg by Rüdiger Joppien; accessed on January 30, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.silberschmiede-forum.eu
  4. ↑ a b Angela Dolgner (ed.): Ragna Sperschneider, treasures from email. Hallescher Kunstverein e. V., Halle 2008, p. 41.
  5. ↑ Angela Dolgner (Ed.): Ragna Sperschneider, Kostbarkeiten aus Email. Hallescher Kunstverein e. V., Halle 2008, p. 40.
  6. ↑ Angela Dolgner (Ed.): Ragna Sperschneider, Kostbarkeiten aus Email. Hallescher Kunstverein e. V., Halle 2008, p. 42.
  7. ↑ a b c Angela Dolgner (ed.): Ragna Sperschneider, treasures from email. Hallescher Kunstverein e. V., Halle 2008, p. 24.
  8. ↑ Angela Dolgner (Ed.): Ragna Sperschneider, Kostbarkeiten aus Email. Hallescher Kunstverein e. V., Halle 2008, p. 26.
  9. ↑ Angela Dolgner (Ed.): Ragna Sperschneider, Kostbarkeiten aus Email. Hallescher Kunstverein e. V., Halle 2008, p. 32.
  10. ↑ Angela Dolgner (Ed.): Ragna Sperschneider, Kostbarkeiten aus Email. Hallescher Kunstverein e. V., Halle 2008, p. 30.
  11. ↑ Angela Dolgner (Ed.): Ragna Sperschneider, Kostbarkeiten aus Email. Hallescher Kunstverein e. V., Halle 2008, p. 28.
  12. ↑ Angela Dolgner (Ed.): Ragna Sperschneider, Kostbarkeiten aus Email . Hallescher Kunstverein e. V., Halle 2008, p. 30-31 .
  13. ↑ Plan (PDF) of the Planten un Blomen park . Retrieved January 30, 2015.
  14. ↑ Reinhard Krause: An endangered species . In: the daily newspaper . June 23, 2007. taz.de
  15. ↑ Article on an exhibition of silver equipment at the MKG. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
  16. ↑ Article on the exhibition in Coburg with a picture of some of the exhibits; accessed on January 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Sperschneider, Ragna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krüger, Ragna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German goldsmith and enamel artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 2003
Place of death Tenerife