Ute Brade

Ute Brade (* 24. November 1942 as Ute Heitmüller in Potsdam ) is a German artist and ceramist.

Live and act

After graduating from high school, Ute Brade trained from 1961 to 1963 to be a disc potter in Stahnsdorf in Gerhard Meisel's workshop. The pottery apprenticeship was a prerequisite for studying ceramics.

Ute Brade studied from 1963 to 1968 in the ceramics class with Erika Gravenstein at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art in Halle (at that time the University of Industrial Design). At the beginning of her studies, she met Gertraud Möhwald , who was also studying there, and a friendly friendship developed.

Since graduating in 1968, she has been working as a freelancer and since 1970 in her own workshop in Halle-Ammendorf to this day.

Hans-Peter Jakobson, director of the Museum of Applied Arts Gera i. R. in a catalog by Ute Brade 2011:

“ In the stimulating atmosphere of the> Burg <and its surroundings in Halle she found her own signature. Free of any routine and with permanent critical self-questioning, this is characterized by a pronounced joy in experimentation as well as constant artistic movement and change, based on solid craftsmanship. "

Hans-Peter Jakobson describes exactly the way of working and artistic attitude of Ute Brade, he continues:

“ This critical and creative examination of the history of her craft led the ceramist to a strict, almost Spartan reduction of the forms to the essentials and a restrained color scheme as well as to renounce spectacular effects. "

In 1980 she took part in the International Ceramic Symposium in Römhild .

In 1967 Ute Brade married the doctor Jochen Brade; the couple has two sons.

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions (selection)

Since 1973 Ute Brade has been involved in national and international exhibitions, for example in Gdansk, Sopot, Katowice, Warsaw, Moscow, Faenza, Hanover, Göttingen, Vallauris, Frechen, Kiel and Kortemark.

Exhibitions since 1990 (selection)

(E) = solo exhibition

1990 Ute Brade - ceramics, Burggalerie Magdeburg (E)
1990 Function and freedom, artistic ceramics from the GDR. City Gallery Kiel
1991 Ceramics from the new federal states of the former GDR and Israeli ceramics, Horace Richter Gallery, East Jaffa, Israel
1992 Ceramics from Saxony-Anhalt, Unna and Art Museum Our Dear Women, Magdeburg
1993 1st Triennial Art from Clay, Art Museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen , Magdeburg
1993 Art and Form, Staatliche Museen Schwerin
1993 Ute Brade and Otto Möhwald , Kunstverein Schloss Röderhof (E)
1994 6th Triennial, Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt aM and Grassi Museum Leipzig
1995 Ute Brade - Plates and Towers, Galerie Marktschlösschen Halle (Saale) (E)
1996 Ton-Art-origin Burg Giebichenstein, Ceramic Museum Westerwald , Höhr-Grenzhausen
1998 Potpourri, Rheinsberg Castle
1999/2000 Augenlust, Galerie am Fischmarkt and Galerie Waidspeicher, Erfurt
2000/2001, 8th Triennial for Form and Content, Germany-Australia, Museum for Applied Arts Frankfurt a. M .; Object Gallery, Customs House, Sydney ; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2002/2003 Ute Brade-Keramik, Kulturhistorisches Museum Schloss Merseburg (E)
2005 and 2011 Ute Brade-Keramik, Karl Fulle ceramic studio, Rheinsberg (E)
2006 3 x 4, 12 ceramicists from Halle, Künstlerhaus 188, Halle (Saale)
2008 Ute Brade - ceramics, Moritzburg Zeitz (E)
2008 Ute Brade - Ceramics, Forum for Contemporary Ceramics, Neue Residenz, Halle (Saale) (E)
2008/2009 vessel / sculpture, German and international ceramics since 1945, Grassi Museum Leipzig
2010 Model kitchen, Amalienpark Gallery, Berlin and Neue Residenz Halle (Saale), Gera, Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf
2011 10th Triennial for Form and Content, Museum for Applied Arts Frankfurt a. M.
2015 Figure and vessel, exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle , Art Museum Monastery of our dear women, Magdeburg
2015 Ceramic art by Ute Brade with 4 colleagues, Galerie Metzger, Johannesberg
2015 Klostergalerie Zehdenick with Nikolaus Brade (E)
2019 Galerie Metzger, Johannesberg

Working in collections

Leipzig, Grassi Museum for Applied Arts
Berlin, State Art Collections, Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts

Frechen, Keramion , center for modern and historical ceramics

Halle (Saale), Moritzburg Art Museum, Saxony-Anhalt Art Museum

Dresden, State Art Collections , Pillnitz Castle Museum of Applied Arts

Frankfurt am Main , Museum of Applied Arts

Magdeburg , Cultural History Museum and Monastery of Our Dear Women

Römhild, ceramic collection in the Museum Schloss Glücksburg

Höhr-Grenzhausen , Westerwald Ceramics Museum

Berlin , Ceramic Museum

and in private collections, etc. a. in the collection of opera singer Barry McDaniel

literature

Ceramics : Works from 1991 to 2010 / Ute Brade catalog. (With text by Hans-Peter Jakobson, Barry McDaniel, Ludwig Rinn, Olaf Thormann, Sabine Runde, Klaus Vogler), concept by Nikolaus and Ute Brade, 2011, Halle (Saale). ISBN 978-3-00-033697-3
Model kitchen , publisher: Forum for contemporary ceramics Halle (Saale), 2010, Ute Brade
Kristina Bake "Tension Fields", In: Neue Keramik, Issue 1/2003,
Renate Luckner-Bien, "Ute Brade, an East German ceramist after the fall of the Wall", in: Neue Keramik 5/2000
Christiane Keisch, In: Keramikmagazin 5/1995,
Karin Heise, “Ute-Brade Ceramics” in: Kunsthandwerk & Design, 6/2002

Web links

Individual evidence

Christina Bendigs: It all started with a pot . In: volksstimme.de. Volksstimme Magdeburg, August 26, 2019 .; accessed on February 20, 2020

https://www.kunststiftung-sachsen-anhalt.de/veranstaltung/ute-brade-%c2%96-keramik

personal data
SURNAME	Brade, Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Potsdam