June 23 - September 8, 2019

Norbert Prangenberg

Formfreude. 70 Werke zum 70. Geburtstag

Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg

Norbert Prangenberg became internationally known through his participation in the documenta 7 in 1982. In 1993 the trained goldsmith took up a professorship of ceramics and glass-painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The often life-sized hollow forms that Prangenberg made from then on in glazed clay, calling them Figures, are impressive characters of idiosyncratic beauty. They are at the centre of a homage to Prangenberg’s search for objects with charisma that adopts a leitmotif of his creativity as its title: ‘pleasure in form’.

Going beyond the boundaries of painting, drawing and sculpture, Norbert Prangenberg (1949–2012) developed a closely interconnected and widely ramified oeuvre. It unites archaic symbolism and baroque colourfulness, geometric clarity and organic proliferation, sensuous luxuriance and sensitive spirituality.

The exhibition, realised in close collaboration with the estate of Norbert Prangenberg, will open on 23 June 2019, the 70th anniversary of the artist’s birth. With 70 ceramics, paintings and drawings, some of them in large formats, the presentation gives a rich insight into Prangenberg’s work cosmos of over thirty years.

Image: Norbert Prangenberg, Bild, 2003, pastel and pigment on canvas, 220 x 180 cm
Estate Norbert Prangenberg © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019

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