Renate Herfurth

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Renate Herfurth (born July 30, 1943 in Guben ; † October 30, 2009 in Leipzig ) was a German commercial artist, book designer and illustrator in Leipzig.

After the bookbinding apprenticeship started in 1959, she worked in this profession until 1967. In 1967 she began studying at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art , which she graduated in 1972 with a degree in graphic design. Since 1972 she has been working as a freelancer in Leipzig. She mainly worked as a book illustrator and in the field of commercial graphics, where she B. Created book posters. From 1982 to 2008 she taught painting and graphics at the Institute for Art Education at Leipzig University .

Renate Herfurth was married to the Leipzig graphic artist and illustrator Egbert Herfurth (* 1944).

Book illustrations (selection)

  • Reinhold Andert : Poems. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin (poetry album 123), 1977
  • Hanza Biensowa: Jank and Bärbel; Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen, 1982
  • Margarete Neumann : The miracle tree and other stories. The children's book publisher, Berlin, 1982
  • Lene Voigt: Bargarohle, Bärchschaft and Saxon Ginsdlrblud. Zentralhaus publication, Leipzig, 1983
  • Wolfgang Polte: Light plays.  Kombinat VEB NARVA, Berlin, 1983 (internal bibliophile edition), 1983
  • Wolfgang O. Schütte: A book of Saxony. Zentralhaus Publications, Leipzig, 1985
  • Sergei Prokofiev :   Peter and the Wolf . Edition Peters, Leipzig: 1987
  • Francois LeGoullon : The elegant tea table. Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig, 1988
  • Ralph Grüneberger : City, Name, Country. Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle and Leipzig, 1989
  • Barbara Reinhardt: Gleenes Göchel directory. Zentralhaus publications, Leipzig, 1990
  • Andrea Pabel: Where is Nahini? Postreiter-Verlag, Halle, 1993

Folders (selection)

  • "Böhlen 1974". Folder with seven signed original woodcuts, 1974 (publisher Chemiekombinat Böhlen)
  • “ Georg Maurer. Five selected poems. ”Portfolio with six signed original lithographs, 1984 (publisher Council of the City of Leipzig)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1993 Leipzig, Leipzig State Library ("Change of location", watercolors, illustrations)
  • 1993 Katlenburg, St. Johannes Church (illustrations, graphics, posters; with Egbert Herfurth)
  • 1998 Plauen, gallery in the Malzhaus (painting and graphics)
  • 2002 Posterstein, Museum Burg Posterstein ("Traces", with Egbert Herfurth)
  • 2012 Freital, Kunstverein Freital (watercolors, graphics and illustrations, with Egberth Herfurth)

Works in public collections (selection)

  • Altenburg, Lindenau-Museum , graphic collection (including on Robert Schumann “Almost too serious”, colored copper engraving, 1975)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of graphic designers of the GDR and Lower Saxony Ministry for Federal and European Affairs: P40. Posters from the GDR , Berlin 1990, p. 187, ISBN 978-3-8758-5184-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Herfurth, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commercial artist, book designer and illustrator in Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Guben
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2009
Place of death Leipzig