Egino Weinert

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Weeping in his Cologne workshop

Egino Günter Weinert (born March 3, 1920 in Berlin-Schöneberg as Franz Stanislaus Günter Przybilski ; † September 4, 2012 in Frechen-Königsdorf ) was a German goldsmith , sculptor and painter of contemporary sacred art. He designed furnishings and art objects for numerous, predominantly Catholic churches in Germany and abroad. Among other things, Weinert worked several times for the Holy See , and some of his work can now be seen in the Collection of Modern Religious Art in the Vatican Museums .

It is noteworthy that Weinert made most of his work with only one hand after losing his right hand to a booby trap in 1945 at the age of 25 . This forced Weinert to learn and develop special techniques in order to practice his handicraft again.

Live and act

Grave of the Cellitinnen of St. Mary in Stommeln
Adoration of the Magi , relief by Weinert on the portal of St. Sebastianus , Bad Bodendorf

Egino Weinert entered the Münsterschwarzach Abbey near Würzburg as a convent student at the age of 14 . He received the name Egino when he entered the monastery, and in the 1930s his father had the family changed from Przybilski to Weinert. He first completed a commercial apprenticeship, then from 1937 an apprenticeship as a restorer, church painter and sculptor. In 1941 he passed his journeyman's examination as a goldsmith and silversmith with distinction.

In 1941 he was arrested and imprisoned in Würzburg for refusing to give the Hitler salute. During the Second World War, Weinert was drafted into the Navy from 1941 to 1945 . During a leave from the front , he passed the master's examination. Back in the war he was charged with undermining military strength and sentenced to death. He only narrowly escaped the execution of the sentence. From then on he had to hide from the National Socialists, with the Princes of Thurn and Taxis helping him.

After the war ended in 1945, Weinert returned to the Münsterschwarzach monastery. In the same year he lost his right hand in his parents' house in Berlin to a booby trap disguised as an electrical fuse that soldiers of the Red Army had installed. It took more than a year before he was able to do simple goldsmithing again with the remaining left hand.

In 1947 Ewald Jorzig , with whom Weinert had already been in contact, visited the monastery and persuaded the abbot to send Weinert to the Cologne factory school. There Weinert learned the subtleties of handicrafts from Elisabeth Treskow , Josef Jaekel , Heinrich Hussmann and Friedrich Vordemberge . He was involved in reassembling the Shrine of the Three Kings, which was dismantled during the evacuation in World War II .

In 1949, a few weeks before the perpetual vows , Weinert was excluded from the monastery by a convention resolution, among other things because he had brought numerous female nude drawings from the art school and because his depictions of saints were viewed by the conservative Benedictines as too abstract.

After the exclusion, Weinert founded his first own studio in Bonn in 1951 . After a brief activity in Switzerland, he returned to Bonn in 1954 and finally settled in Cologne with his own studio and workshop, where he lived until his death. In 1963 a second workshop followed in Dénia, Spain, and later an exhibition center in Frechen-Königsdorf.

In his workshops Weinert created many sacred objects such as altars , tabernacles , baptismal and Weihbecken , ambos , crosses , cross paths , Madonnas , chalices , candlesticks , etc. for predominantly Catholic churches in Germany and abroad. He quickly became known nationwide and worked for several popes, u. a. John XXIII and John Paul II

Egino Weinert died on September 4, 2012 at the age of 92 and was buried on September 11, 2012 in the cemetery in Kleinkönigsdorf .

family

In 1951 Egino Weinert married the bookseller Anneliese Leupold. He had four children with her. After the death of his wife, Weinert married Waltraud Förster in 1985.

His son Egino Weinert jun. is also a silver and goldsmith, but not in the field of sacred art.

Honors

Three stamps of Vatican City from 2001 show works by Egino Weinert.

Exhibition house in Königsdorf and Egino Weinert Foundation

The exhibition house in Königsdorf houses a permanent exhibition with works by the artist. There is also the headquarters of the Egino Weinert Foundation, which was founded in 2007 and strives to preserve its art.

Works

For churches and monasteries

Egino Weinert equipped several hundred churches with works, including:

Germany

Denmark

Iceland

Italy

  • Chapel of the Servites of Galeazza , Bologna

Luxembourg

  • St. Petrus in Bieles
  • St. Jakob in Roodt Suer

Austria

  • St. Columban and St. Gallus in Bregenz (various)

Poland

Portugal

Spain

  • St. Antonius and St. Johannes , Dénia (various)

South Korea

  • Church in Gasil (가실 성당)

United States

Other works

Stockhausen grave slab, Ohlsdorf cemetery

literature

  • Evamaria Kepper: Egino G. Weinert. Goldsmith, painter, sculptor. Ways and works. Memories, conversations, reflections, collected narratives. Sartura-Verlag, Solingen 2003, ISBN 3-000139-71-0 .
  • Antonia Rolf: "His time in your hands". Biography of the master goldsmith, painter and sculptor Egino G. Weinert. Egino G. Weinert self-published, Cologne 2000.
  • Anselm Grün : See the secret in pictures. With pictures by Egino Weinert through the church year. Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach 1996, ISBN 3-87868-564-5 .
  • Ferdinand Dahl: Catalog for the exhibition Art Medals - Medal Art , Part 2, Der Steckenreiter. Additional hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A Münzpost of the Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde eV, volume 87. Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2013, p. 14f. ( PDF document , with 9 illustrations)

Web links

Commons : Egino Weinert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth 1920 according to own information, is often wrongly given as 1924
  2. ↑ EGINO WEINERT on kepper-solingen.de
  3. ↑ Andreas Otto: Künstler mit ein Hand , Domradio, September 11, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2020.
  4. ↑ Vita - chronologically , accessed on February 21, 2020.
  5. ^ Egino Weinert Junior's workshop
  6. ^ Postage stamps of the Vatican State
  7. ^ Exhibition house in Königsdorf , accessed on February 21, 2020.
  8. ↑ Catalog of works (incomplete) on kepper-solingen.de
  9. ↑ Church Leader St. Matthias, Berlin ( Memento from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Church newspaper for the diocese of Eichstätt from January 5, 1975, p. 19
  11. ↑ The altar cross in the parish church of St. Otto ( Memento from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ List of works - www.eginoweinert.de ( Memento from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ From Crystal to Christ - A Guide to the Nation's newest Cathedral , accessed July 15, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Weeping, Egino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinert, Egino Günter (full name); Przybilski, Franz Stanislaus Günter (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sacred artist (goldsmith, sculptor and painter)
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 2012
Place of death Königsdorf (Frechen)