Siegfried Ratzlaff

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Siegfried Ratzlaff in September 2013

Siegfried Ratzlaff (born February 14, 1934 in Vangerow , Köslin district , Pomerania ) is a German painter , graphic artist and university professor. He significantly developed the decelith stitch technique as a supplement to wood engraving .

Life

After finishing high school in Arnstadt from 1949 to 1953, Siegfried Ratzlaff began studying art education at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in 1953 . An artistic degree took place in the subject of plastic; artistic teachers were Elisabeth Voigt , Hans Schulze , Heinz Olbrich, Kurt Biegholdt . From 1957 to 1959 Siegfried Ratzlaff worked as an art teacher at the Extended Oberschule Dr. Martin Luther , Eisleben . 1959 Start of teaching (artistic practice of painting / graphics) at Karl Marx University. This was followed by external studies at the Dresden University of Fine Arts with Lea Grundig from 1961 to 1963 .

After being appointed lecturer for fine arts in the art education department in 1970, Siegfried Ratzlaff was appointed professor in 1978 to teach painting and graphics at the Cultural and Art Studies section of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. Until he left in 1993 (early retirement), Siegfried Ratzlaff was head of the fine arts department at the Institute for Art Education at the University of Leipzig .

Siegfried Ratzlaff is married, lives and works in Leipzig .

Study trips took him to the Soviet Union (1967 Kiev , 1974 Kazan / Rostow), Czechoslovakia (1975 Olomouc , Prague , Bratislava ), Bulgaria (1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1987), to Denmark (1992), London (1997 and 1998), Provence (2001) and Scotland (2003).

Siegfried Ratzlaff was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR from 1963 to 1990 and from 1998 to 2002 Deputy Chairman of the Association of Visual Artists Leipzig (BBKL).

Works (selection)

  • 1963 children's carousel (decelith engraving)
  • 1967 Landscape near Augustusburg (drypoint)
  • 1973 pop singer (Decelithstich)
  • 1973 graphic sequence of pages "Jugend" (decelith engraving)
  • 1976 Thomas Münzer and the German Peasants' War (metal etching)
  • 1979 episode of Louis Fürnberg "The Festival of Life"
  • 1984 pair (drypoint)
  • 1987, 1989, 1999 episode on Tschingis Aitmatow "The day draws the way of the century" (hand drawings), (panel paintings), (tempera / oil on canvas)
  • 1988 Even in the cold studio (tempera / oil / canvas)
  • 1993 The forest (tempera / oil)
  • 1994 Uta (tempera / oil on canvas)
  • 1996 Also a Paris judgment (tempera / oil / canvas)
  • 1997 Nude with a dress form (acrylic / oil / plywood)
  • 1998 Nude on swivel stool (acrylic / oil / canvas)
  • 1999 Carousel in Fontainerbleau (acrylic / oil)
  • 2000 Livia in front of trees (acrylic / oil)
  • 2001 series of images Scotland (acrylic / oil)
  • 2002 The Middle Kingdom II (acrylic / oil)
  • 2003 sequence of images for Berlio's "The Trojans" 6 images
  • 2003 Hopes and premonitions of Dido (acrylic)
  • 2007 When people open their arms crosses (acrylic / oil)
  • 2008 Venus Kallipygos (acrylic / canvas)
  • 2010 ER (acrylic / oil)
  • 2011 models (acrylic / oil)
  • 2011 Liana (acrylic / oil canvas)
  • 2013 Mirror-free (acrylic / oil)
  • 2013 Early evening at the pond (acrylic / canvas)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1965 Bad Kösen, Romanisches Haus Museum
  • 1977 Art in the "St. Georg" Clinic in Leipzig
  • 1979 Exhibitions in Rochlitz, Geringswalde and Penig
  • 1980 Weimar, gallery in the Cranachhaus
  • 1985 Rochsburg, Museum
  • 1990 Döbeln, Kulturbund, Small Gallery
  • 1994 law firm Hager-Weidauer-Zebisch-Zirnstein Leipzig
  • 1995 Augsburg Society for Earth Building
  • 1995 Querfurt, Museum Burg Querfurt
  • 1997 Delitzsch
  • 1999 art Kapella Schkeuditz
  • 2000 Leipzig Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • 2003 Barthels Hof - Webers Hof Leipzig
  • 2004 BDO Deutsche Warentreuhand Aktiengesellschaft Leipzig
  • 2004 art department store Leipzig
  • 2005 Hotel Schloss Machern
  • 2006 Seen - Invented / Galerie Kugel Naunhof
  • 2007 Project gallery of the Association of Visual Artists Leipzig
  • 2008 Kunsthaus "Tiefer Keller" Merseburg
  • 2008 picture and sound Wurzen
  • 2009 Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Leipzig
  • 2014 Gallery in the cCe Kulturhaus Leuna
  • 2014 art Kapella Sckeudiz
  • 2016 Dentale Leipzig Siegfried Ratzlaff - My pictures
  • 2020 MANUS LOQUENS, Galerie Koenitz, Leipzig

literature

Web links

annotation

  1. ↑ Decelith is a PVC-based plastic manufactured in the Eilenburg chemical plant from 1936 .
  2. ↑ MANUS LOQUENS. In: Galerie Koenitz. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ratzlaff, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Vangerow , district of Köslin