Renate Heintze

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Renate Heintze (born October 4, 1936 in Naumburg (Saale) as Renate Bürg; † July 28, 1991 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German jewelry designer. From 1974 to 1991 she was head of the jewelry design department at the University of Industrial Design in Halle Burg - Giebichenstein.

life and work

Renate Bürg grew up with three siblings in a goldsmith's family in Naumburg (Saale) . Her grandfather Paul Brand ran a goldsmith's business with his own workshop since 1903, in which her parents Raimund Bürg (master goldsmith) and Dora Bürg, née. Brand (goldsmith) worked. So she and her siblings were familiar with this activity from childhood. After eight years of school she began a three-year apprenticeship as a goldsmith with her grandfather in 1950. Two other siblings also learned later in the grandfather's company. During her training, she learned about the opportunity to continue her training in Halle (Saale) at what was then the Institute for Artistic Design in Burg Giebichenstein . In 1953 she was accepted into the metal class under the direction of Karl Müller . After passing the special school leaving examination in 1956, she continued studying with Karl Müller and, after his retirement in 1958, with Joachim Fitzermann. In 1959 she received her diploma as a designer in the field of jewelry design. The course was followed by a postgraduate qualification in the form of an aspiration at the university. In 1960 she became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK).

From 1960 to 1962 she worked as a designer at VEB Gablona Neuheim , a district of Jüterbog. In 1962 she married the design designer Manfred Heintze , their daughter Lisa was born in 1964 and their daughter Anna in 1967. In 1984 the marriage ended in divorce.

From 1966 to 1973 she worked as an artistic and scientific assistant in the jewelry department of the University of Industrial Design Halle - Burg Giebichenstein . In 1974 Renate Heintze took over the management of the jewelry class and in 1984 was appointed university professor (lecturer).

“Renate Heintze is a kind of key figure in the GDR's jewelry creation. […] The use of cast resin , brass, aluminum or even paper mache alongside the classic gold and silver should prove that art and the laws of form are not tied to a specific material. In her work you can clearly feel a sensitive, idiosyncratic way of dealing with the figurative subject, for example, of approaching it almost carefully, mostly from the outline. But the tartness typical of the castle is always present, especially since the seventies, after the phase of amiable natural themes. "

“At the college in Halle an der Saale, jewelry training was integrated into the community of an art school right from the start, where jewelry was not considered a decorative ingredient, but a serious artistic task. Certainly the most important feature for what established the reputation of the Halleschen Schmuck-Schule was the concentration on the unique handicrafts. In Halle, Renate Heintze, together with Dorothea Prühl, has broken new ground right from the start without fundamentally abandoning the traditional. Materials were reinterpreted and tested for their usefulness for the artistic idea. Shaped and integrated into the tradition of a school, for which art always meant expediency, the jewelry continued to be related to the human body. In this sense, Renate Heintze's work exemplifies a self-image that is common today and the widely differentiated image of contemporary jewelry art. "

The art museum Moritzburg Halle and the German goldsmith's house in Hanau honored the artist in 1993 with an extensive exhibition of works.

Works in museums and public collections

Awards

  • 1967 1st prize in the candlestick competition at the GDR arts and crafts exhibition in Erfurt
  • 1971 gold medal at the international jewelry exhibition Jablonec / CZ
  • 1974 silver medal of the international jewelry exhibition Jablonec / CZ
  • 1977 silver medal of the international jewelry exhibition Jablonec / CZ
  • 1982 2nd prize in the design competition of the Office for Industrial Design (AiF) on the subject of "body jewelry"
  • 1982 Diploma of the III. Quadrennial of the arts and crafts of socialist countries in Erfurt

Exhibitions

Personal exhibitions

  • 1983 Galerie Wort und Werk, Leipzig (together with Dorothea Prühl)
  • 1993 State Gallery Moritzburg Halle (March 7th - June 13th)
  • 1993 German Goldsmith's House in Hanau (September 19 - November 21)
  • 2017 "Renate Heintze. Classic of Modernism ", Munich (as part of the special show" Jewelry 2017 "from March 8-14, 2017)

Participation in exhibitions

  • since 1962 all art exhibitions in the GDR, Dresden
  • since 1964 all district art exhibitions
  • 1967 and 1969 "Arts and Crafts of the GDR", Erfurt
  • from 1968 to 1987 International Jewelery Exhibition Jablonec (Czech Republic)
  • 1969 and 1970 “Arts and Crafts”, Grassimuseum Leipzig - Museum of Arts and Crafts
  • 1974 "Metal in the arts and crafts of the GDR", Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1974 to 1986 Quadrennial of Arts and Crafts of Socialist Countries, Erfurt
  • 1975 jewelry, glass, device (VBK DDR), Sofia, Warsaw, Poznań
  • 1976 "Hallesche Goldschmiedekunst" State Gallery Moritzburg Halle
  • 1978 "Jewelry from the districts of Halle and Magdeburg", Our Dear Women Monastery, Magdeburg
  • 1979 "Exempla'79", jewelry show, international craft fair Munich,
  • 1980 “Hallesche Kunst”, Kunstverein Hannover
  • 1981 and 1986 metal design in the GDR, 1st and 2nd central exhibition, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle
  • 1981 "Hallescher Schmuck", Gallery Skarabäus, Berlin
  • 1984 and 1988 I. and II. Jewelry exhibition of the GDR, Erfurt
  • 1986 "Jewelry from the districts of Halle and Magdeburg", Our Dear Women Monastery, Magdeburg
  • 1987 “Arts and Crafts of the GDR”, Beijing
  • 1988 "Contemporary arts and crafts of the GDR", Chamber of Crafts Hanover
  • 1988 "Amulet and Talisman", Hanau
  • 1989 "Schmuckszene ´89", special show of the international craft fair in Munich
  • 1990 "Jewelry Made in GDR", Gallery Knauth & Hagen, Bonn (Gallery Schmuck-Forum, Zurich)
  • 1991 "Ambiente", special show "Plus Five - Arts and Crafts from the New Federal States", International Fair Frankfurt / Main
  • 1991 Configura 1, Art in Europe, Erfurt

Presented at exhibitions in: Cairo, Damascus, Moscow, Katowice, Leningrad, Tallinn, Bratislava, Prague, Bucharest, Budapest, Stockholm, Havana, Rome

Literature (excerpt)

  • Renate Heintze, Dorothea Prühl: Tradition and innovation in artistic jewelry design at the University of Industrial Design Halle-Burg-Giebichenstein, Part 1 . In: Watches and Jewelry . Berlin 19 (1982) 2., pp. 39-43.
  • Renate Heintze, Dorothea Prühl: Tradition and innovation in artistic jewelry design at the University of Industrial Design Halle-Burg-Giebichenstein, part 2. In ibid. 3., pp. 66–70
  • Renate Heintze, Dorothea Prühl: The training of jewelry designers at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Applied Sciences . In: ibid. 25 (1988) 5., pp. 136/137.
  • Fritz fighter: Hallesche goldsmithing. The goldsmiths Renate Heintze-Bürg, Dorothea Hofmeister and Irmtraud Ohme . In: Fine arts . Berlin 1967, No. 3, pp. 139-143.
  • Walter Funkat: Handicrafts in the GDR . Berlin 1970, pp. 303-305.
  • Hans Ulrich Lehmann: Handcrafted jewelry by Renate Heintze . In: Fine arts . Berlin 1980, No. 2. pp. 78-80.
  • Fritz fighters, Klaus G. Beyer: Handicrafts in transition . Berlin 1984, pp. 202-204.
  • Configura 1. Art in Europe . (Exhibition cat.). Ed .: Galerie am Fischmarkt. Erfurt 1991, p. 97.
  • Dorothea Prühl, Andrea Richter, Heinz Schönemann, Peter Skubic: Schmuck Burg Giebichenstein 1970-1992 , Stuttgart 1992, pp. 18–47, p. 193, ISBN 978-3-925369-27-8 .
  • Christiane Keisch: Renate Heintze - jewelry . Ed .: Renate Luckner-Bien and Dorothea Prühl, Ed. Stekofoto, Halle an der Saale 1993, ISBN 978-3-929330-11-3 .
  • Renate Heintze: Conclusion. Ed .: Renate Luckner-Bien, Margit Jäschke, Dößel 2017. ISBN 978-3-89923-375-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christiane Keisch: Arts and Crafts of the Present. Contemporary works from the GDR in the collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts . Berlin 1989, p. 88
  2. ↑ Katja Scheider: Renate Heintze - a pioneer of designer jewelry . In: Renate Heintze. Conclusion . Dößel 2017, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Heintze, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bürg, Renate (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jewelry designer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1991
Place of death Halle (Saale)