Reginald Richter

Reginald Richter (born July 16, 1931 in Vienna ) is an artist and glass designer .

Life

Richter dealt extensively with building-related glass art and thus shaped many public buildings, mainly in the GDR . In particular, he made use of glass application technology in combination with grinding and sandblasting technology. Later works of art in glass and concrete technology and finally in layered glass technology were added. For Magdeburg he created the glass design "Song of Work". In 1995 it was demolished. Richter's most popular work is the “Glass Flower” created in 1975/76 in the Palace of the Republic , which he designed together with Richard O. Wilhelm . The object combines on a welded stainless steel shaft, a glass ball of laminated glass and wings 12 mm float glass , which are coated on both sides with glass applications. The property was dismantled in 1998 when the “Palace of the Republic” was demolished and has since been stored in the House of History in Berlin. According to the artist's intention, however, it represents a glass tree . The reinterpretation as a flower goes back to an utterance by Erich Honecker , which was then generally adopted.

Reginald Richter was expelled from northern Bohemia in 1945 . He began an apprenticeship as a glass engraver. In 1951 he began studying at the Technical College for Applied Arts (FAK) in Magdeburg . Just three years later, in 1954, he was one of the founding members of the "Hamann, Richter, Wilhelm, Glasgestaltung Magdeburg collective". This association was renamed "Werkgenossenschaft Glasgestaltung Magdeburg" in 1956. In 1966 he became a member of the Association of Visual Artists . In 1972 he founded the "College of Visual Artists Glass Design Magdeburg". In the same year he was awarded the GDR art prize, and in 1974 a hero of work . From 1972-78 and 1982-89 he was district chairman of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK), then until 1991 spokesman for the regional association of the VBK. Since 1990 he has been a member of the "Deutscher Werkbund". In 2000 the "Glasgestaltung Magdeburg" was dissolved.

Works

"Glass Flower" in the Palace of the Republic

“Song of Work” in Magdeburg

• "Ganescha", Pachyderm House Magdeburg Zoo, (1966)
• "Glass Fountain", GDR Embassy Budapest (1966)
• "Raumteiler", guest house of the Central Committee of the SED, (1968) some of the last elements are still on MDF.1 television in Magdeburg
• “Lied der Arbeit”, Magdeburg (1972/73), demolished in 1995
• "Merkur", Leipzig (1979/80)
• "Wave game of the dolphins", in Zinnowitz (1982)
• "Recovery", in front of the Charité in Berlin (1984)
• "Glasschaubrunnen", Erfurt Professional Association (1992/94)
• "Glass partition", together with Helga Borisch, Telekom Magdeburg (1996)
• "Glass Composition", Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg , (1998)

literature

• State capital Magdeburg: Glass design Magdeburg, attempt to take stock . Office for Public Relations, Magdeburg 2002, series of the "white booklets"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Article in the Tagesspiegel from January 9, 2016