Wilhelm Koslar

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Wilhelm Koslar (* 1924 in Kirchberg ; † 1993 in Rhens ) was a German ceramist and poet .

Life

Koslar attended the humanistic high school in Jülich from 1936 to 1943 . From 1943 to 1945 he served as a soldier in World War II . He continued his school career, which was interrupted by the war, from 1949 to 1951 and graduated from high school in 1951 . From 1952 to 1957 he studied Egyptology and in 1955 studied ceramics at the Cologne factory schools . In 1960 the journeyman and in 1967 the master craftsman examination as a ceramist. In 1967 he set up a workshop in Sankt Augustin . His place of residence at that time was Eudenbach . From 1973 to 1990 he worked in the ceramics workshop at the Cologne factory schools. In 1987 he became a technical teacher for ceramics at the FHS Cologne, department of art and design. In 1991 the teaching assignment for ceramics at the FHS Cologne was added. From 1990 to 1991 he ran a workshop in Rhens, where he lives.

In 1993 he was the first German to have a solo exhibition in Seoul , South Korea . In 1996 there was a large retrospective exhibition in Siegburg in the city museum. To this day there is a permanent exhibition in Rhens.

Work (selection)

As an author

  • Your wings roar, 1963
  • The blue miracle, poems, 1970
  • The Hour of the Dead, Poems, 1978
  • Between imagination and function, 1984
  • Ceramic, 1995

As a ceramist

  • Fish in the aquarium , concrete sculpture with ceramic elements at the indoor pool in Cologne- Worringen
  • Flute player , cycle
  • The four temperaments
  • Rur landscape
  • Three horns
  • Little King
  • lots of ceramic work

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Works by Wilhelm Koslar on www.extra-angebote.de. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Koslar, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ceramist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg
DATE OF DEATH 1993
Place of death Rhens