The spring 2019 programme of the Werkstatt für Kreative is about the surprising technique of Pop-Up Art. With imagination and skill, a three-dimensional work of art is created in layers. For example, it unfolds from a folding card or a book by opening the page.
The programme of the Werkstatt für Kreative is based on the current exhibition in the Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank “BOHÈME IN CHARLOTTENBURG – HANS LAABS UND FREUNDE. Werke aus der Kunstsammlung der Berliner Volksbank.” Hans Laabs (1915-2004) was an artist who came to Berlin after World War II and, as a multi-talented artist, promoted the reconstruction of West Berlin’s cultural scene.
In painting, it is called a shoulder piece, in plastic art, it is called a bust. What is meant is a likeness in which only the section from the head to the shoulder is visible. From an early age, art was concerned with the creation of human likenesses. Whether it was the first drawings in caves, representations in the pyramids, Greek and Roman sculptures, religious motifs from the Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance periods, or portraits in modern art today. The human being is always at the centre of artistic interest.
The pure portrait bust is often made for appreciation or commemoration. Different materials are used for busts of different dimensions. The aim of this very old portrait form is to emphasise the personality of the person portrayed by concentrating on the reduced details.
Starting with works from the collection of the Berliner Volksbank, the pupils look at busts and paintings from the art collection that are based on the human anatomy. In the process, the characteristics of this art form are worked out and then practically implemented with air-drying modelling clay.