Ulli Wittich-Großkurth

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Ulli Wittich-Großkurth (born June 17, 1932 in Jena ) is a German ceramist and artisan .

Life

After elementary school, Ulli Großkurth attended the Jena University School with Peter Petersen . From 1947 to 1950 she learned the profession of disk potter from the master potter Walter Gebauer in Bürgel . From 1950 to 1953 she attended the technical school for applied arts in Erfurt . From 1954 to 1957 she attended a master craftsman course at Gebauer, which she concluded with receiving her master craftsman certificate. Since 1957 she has been working as a freelancer in her own workshop " Töpferklause " in Jena-Winzerla . The entry into the role of craftsman followed , and since 1958 she has had the title of "Recognized Craftsman". In the same year she became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK). From 1962 to 1970 she chaired the arts and crafts / design section in the Gera district of the VBK. From 1968 to 1974 Wittich-Großkurth was a board member of the VBK in the Gera district and a member of the central board of the GDR. Since 1974 she was also a member of the Advisory Board for Arts and Crafts at the Ministry of Culture . From 1977 to 1979 she was a lecturer at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein . In 1978 she was one of the co-founders of the central ceramic working group in the VBK of the GDR.

Your students were u. a. Andreas Greiner-Napp , Annette and Lorenz Wittich (their son), Franziska Munkelt and Sabine Eichelberger .

For her own artistic development, she feels connected to the former chairman of the GDR Artists' Association, the painter Willi Sitte . She appreciates his services in the field of visual art. In 1990 she was a co-founder of the Thuringia Pottery Guild and the Association of Visual Artists Thuringia . She was also the founder of the Bund Thüringer Kunsthandwerker eV and first chairwoman of the Bund deutscher Kunsthandwerker Frankfurt / Main . In 2010 she was appointed to the jury for the International Ceramic Symposium in Römhild , southern Thuringia .

Study trips took her to Hungary , the USSR , Bulgaria , Poland , CSSR and in 1978 to Italy . In 1981 she traveled to France , 1983 and 1984 to the Federal Republic of Germany . Großkurth took part in several international symposia: 1973 in Siklós / Hungary, 1974 in Subotica / Yugoslavia , 1975 in Römhild / GDR.

Her works have been shown at solo exhibitions at home and abroad.

Ulli Wittich-Großkurth is a member of the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity (GBM) and showed an exhibition of her ceramics in the Berlin rooms of the GBM in 2011. She is involved in the protest against neo-Nazism in Germany. On behalf of the GBM Federal Executive Committee, she created the Peace Prize of the GBM and the European Peace Forum in 2012, which was presented on February 15, 2012 to the “ Dresden Nazi-Free ” alliance .

Honors

literature

  • Walter Funkat: Handicrafts in the GDR , Berlin 1970
  • Fritz Kämper: Handicrafts in Transition , Berlin 1984
  • Dietmar Eisold : Lexicon artists in the GDR. A project by the Society for the Protection of Civil Rights and Human Dignity eV , New Life Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 1037.
  • Janin Pisarek: fairy tales made of clay. Ulli Wittich-Großkurth in portrait . In: fairytale mirror. Journal for international fairy tale research and fairy tale care, volume 28, issue 2/2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://jena.otz.de/web/lokal/kultur/detail/-/specific/Jenaer-Keramikerin-Ulli-Wittich-Grosskurth-in-internationaler-Jury-1354088792 Retrieved March 3, 2012
  2. ↑ http://www.gbmev.de/archv/Friedenspreis_der_GBM_2012.htm Retrieved March 3, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Wittich-Großkurth, Ulli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena