Large relief "Paradise". Astrid Dannegger. Around 1975. Astrid Dannegger 1940 Müllrose near Frankfurt Oder. Ceramic, light-coloured body, partially painted in polychrome glaze colours. Deeply moulded form, in the front and rim area with almost fully plastic figural staffage, in the centre changing to a half relief. Paradisiacal depiction with women, men and children at a pond, the surroundings a fertile forest landscape. Unsigned. At the upper edge two holes for mounting. The relief is suitable for an architectural integration into a wall. Cf. a version similar to the motif : Kulturförderverein Schaddelmühle e.V., Frank Brinkmann: Vom Kollegium Bildender Künstler zum Künstlerhaus Schaddelmühle. 1974-2014. history of a vision, Leipzig 2014, p. 13, with ill. A fire crack o.Mi. Dimensions: h. 60 cm, w. 94 cm, d. 13 cm. Astrid Dannegger 1940 Müllrose near Frankfurt Oder 1956-59 Attended the Workers' and Peasants' Faculty at the HfBK Dresden. 1959 Abitur. 1959-1960 Internship at the stoneware factory in Torgau. 1961-66 Studies at the Berlin-Weißensee Art Academy with Wolfgang Henze and Rudolf Kaiser, specialising in ceramics. From 1966 freelance artist and member of the VBK. 1974-90 Founding member of the College of Visual Artists "Schaddelmühle", since 1978 chairwoman of the college. 1976 prize at the exhibition "Young Artists of the GDR". 1981/82 Working stay in the studio of the State Porcelain Manufactory Meissen. 1991 Relocation to Morgenitz on Usedom, opening of her own workshop and organisation of annual ceramics markets.