Thomas Ranft (graphic designer)

Thomas Ranft (* 1945 in Königsee , Thuringia ) is a German graphic artist and printer .

Life

After working as a tree nursery gardener in Weimar and Markkleeberg and attending the Leipzig Evening Academy in 1966, he studied from 1967 to 1972 at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art . In 1972 he moved to Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz).

In 1975 he took part in the pleinairs in Ahrenshoop and on Hiddensee . The result was an 8 mm cine film , which he shot with Michael Morgner and the photographer Ralf-Rainer Wasse.

On his initiative and ideas, he founded the artist group and producer gallery Clara Mosch (1977–1982) in Adelsberg , a district of Karl-Marx-Stadt / Chemnitz , in 1977 together with Carlfriedrich Claus , Michael Morgner , Dagmar Ranft-Schinke and Gregor-Thorsten Schade .

As part of his artistic activity, Ranft occasionally took print jobs. Among others for Horst SAGES , Harald Naegeli, Gerhard Altenbourg and his fellow artist Clara Mosch .

In 1985 he first met Ernst Jandl . He later illustrated Jandl's work, the inscribed armchair .

From 1986 to 1989 he taught at the technical college for applied arts in Schneeberg . Since 1993 he has been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig .

In 2003 he was awarded the Hans Theo Richter Prize of the Saxon Academy of the Arts .

Thomas Ranft lives and works near Chemnitz and is a founding member of the “Art for Chemnitz” association.

Personal exhibitions (selection)

• 2019 Gallery Profile, Weimar
• 2017 Art Temple , Kassel
• 2017 Galerie am Hirschgarten, Erfurt
• 2015 Chemnitz art collections
• 2013 Hölderlinturm , Tübingen
• 2010 Gallery at Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
• 2010 Art Space, Frankfurt a. M.
• 2009 Kunsthalle Schweinfurt
• 2008 Edition Staeck, Heidelberg; HP project, Dresden; Weibel Gallery, Basel
• 2007 Nathalia Laue Gallery | Gallery & Edition, Frankfurt / Main
• 2003 Barthel + Tetzner Gallery, Berlin; Gallery above , Chemnitz
• 2002 Gallery 5 five senses, Halle
• 2001 Goethe Institute, New York
• 2000 Barthel + Tetzner Gallery, Berlin
• 1999 Galerie Oben, Chemnitz
• 1998 art-in gallery, Meerane
• 1997 Lindenau Museum , Altenburg; Municipal art collections, Chemnitz
• 1996 Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne; Jürgen Ponto Foundation, Frankfurt / M.
• 1995 Gallery Above Chemnitz
• 1994 Gunar Barthel Gallery, Berlin
• 1993 Barthel + Tetzner Gallery, Cologne
• 1992 Gunar Barthel Gallery, Berlin; Gallery for Original Prints, Zurich (Switzerland)
• 1991 Gallery in the Cranachhaus , Weimar
• 1990 Galerie Catarina Maurer, Bern (Switzerland)
• 1987 Galerie Oben , Karl-Marx-Stadt, Galerie Erph, Erfurt
• 1985 Kunsthalle Hamburg ; Gallery Villa de Crohn, Bremen; Gallery H. Schneider, Horgen (Switzerland)
• 1982 Galerie Mitte, Dresden
• 1981 Club of the Intelligence “Pablo Neruda”, Karl-Marx-Stadt
• 1980 Gallery at Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
• 1979 Gallery Arkade, Berlin
• 1977 Clara Mosch's opening exhibition
• 1976 Bunte Stube, Ahrenshoop
• 1975 Kulturbund-Galerie, Magdeburg
• 1974 Galerie Kunst der Zeit, Weimar
• 1973 Galerie Oben , Karl-Marx-Stadt
• 1971 Kunstkabinett, Leipzig

Awards

• 2003 Hans Theo Richter Prize, Saxon Academy of the Arts , Dresden
• 1993 Bavarian Film Prize for "The creative decomposition", documentary about Clara Mosch
• 1980 Medal at the Biennale, Frechen
• 1976 II. Biennale de Gravure, Mulhouse: Mulhouse City Prize
• 1975 Medal at the VII Biennale, Malbork (Poland)
• 1973 Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the CSSR at the 1st Quadrennial in Banska Bystrica

Works in public ownership (selection)

Engraving cabinets and drawing collections from museums in Dresden, Berlin, Chemnitz, Altenburg, Leipzig, Halle, Frankfurt / O., Rostock, Weimar, Schwerin, Stendal, Munich, Basel, Paris, New York, Bratislava and in the Academies of Sciences in Berlin, Dresden and Jena.

literature

• 1975 "Der Mann vom Anti", Utopische Erzählungen, Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin, 14 reproduced etchings by T. Ranft
• 1979 "Traces", 10 etchings, portfolio, Academy of Sciences, Berlin / Buch
• 1983 “Gavrinis”, 10 etchings, portfolio, Edition Eikon-Presse, Verlag der Kunst , Dresden
• 1984 “the similarity with your eyes”, artist book with lithographed captions by Andreas Koziol
• 1986 "Reflexionen II", artist book, 11 etchings, own texts, editor: Jens Henkel, Karl-Marx-Stadt
• 1989 “The fool and his wounds”, 13 drypoint etchings, portfolio, own edition
• 1990 "Amiticia", documentation of the friendship between T. Ranft and J. Wenke
• 1991 “Ameticia”, graphics and text by T. Ranft, text and design by J. Wenke
• 1991 Ernst Jandl : The labeled armchair. Poems, 20 etchings by T. Ranft
• 2002 "InSicht", graphic portfolio
• 2005 "Nebelhüllen", graphic portfolio for Goethe's "Faust II"
• 2008 "HP: Das Rätsel", artist book in offset printing, publisher: J. Wenke, Städtische Galerie Dresden
• 2012 "Hyperion", two graphic portfolios with 11 etchings each, published on behalf of the Hölderlin Society
• 2019 "Allegorie I", "Allegorie II", two graphic portfolios with 11 etchings each on the subject of Rilke

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Jandl : The labeled armchair. Poems . Reclam, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-379-00621-1 (with 20 etchings by Thomas Ranft).

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Ranft in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Ranft on artfacts.net