The Technikum Lage was built in 1925 in neoclassical style. Numerous students from all over northern Germany attended the Technikum to train as engineers. The technical centre was nationalized in 1970 and integrated into the university of applied sciences as a department in 1971. In 1981, the Lage department of Lippe University of Applied Sciences was dissolved.
In 1988, the building was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Lage and acquired by the city in the fall of 1993. The total costs for the conversion of the building amounted to DM 8.1 million, with 70% of the costs being covered by urban development funds from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.After conversion and restoration, today's cultural center was opened in autumn 1995. Today, it is used by the Lage Music School, the Lippe-West Adult Education Center, the Sibylle Dotti Art Foundation and the Kluckhuhn Foundation.
Art station 10: Regina Monczynski
Vita:
Born in Hameln in 1957. 1974 - 1984 Studied to become a teacher of Protestant theology and art in Bielefeld. 1978 Founding member of the "Fachwerk", Bad Salzuflen. Has lived in Lage since 1980. From 1980 lecturer and since 1985 active in the teaching profession. 1991 Founding member of the group of visual artists "pickArt", Detmold. Participation in numerous joint and solo exhibitions, including 1992 in the Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold, 1995 in the Marktkirche Lage, 1996 in the Galerie am Hafen, Düsseldorf, 1997 in the Städtische Galerie, Berlin-Fürstenwalde, 1998 in Bonn and Bielefeld, 1999 and 2000 in Hanover.
Artistic focus: Abstract painting
About the picture:
With her contribution to the views of Laghens, the artist has not worked on the subject of the human figure, as she usually likes to do, but on a house to which one would almost like to ascribe a soul. The artist has built up a close relationship with this building. On the one hand, she lives directly behind it, so she looks at the entrance area every day. On the other hand, she knows the building from the days when it was derelict and waiting for its new purpose as a cultural center. As a painter, Regina Monczynski was fascinated by the architecture of the building. It cannot be easily displaced and acts as a pleasant monument. Why did she paint the back? This is where the entrance is located and she has always rubbed up against it, unable to decide whether she finds it beautiful or whether it bothers her. These metal struts form a contrast to the white walls. The white of the walls looks different depending on the time of day and lighting conditions. And above them is the terracotta-red protective roof. She wanted to capture everything that she sees as essential to the house in her painting.
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