Alois Plum

Stained glass window by Alois Plum in the Martinskirche (Kaiserslautern) .

Alois Johannes Plum (born March 2, 1935 in Mainz ) is an artist living in Mainz-Weisenau . He created numerous concrete and leaded glass windows for churches all over Germany. His work also includes wall paintings , mosaics , the design of tabernacles , ambo and color concepts in church rooms. Since 1957 he has designed over 200 churches, some of them new buildings, some renovations in the course of the destruction caused by the Second World War , as well as public buildings and private rooms. Characteristic is on the one hand its architecture-related interpretation, the harmony of historical sacred building and modern glass art, on the other hand its careful alignment with the liturgical function of its art.

Life

Alois Plum was born in 1935 as the son of Josef Plum († 1988), a painter and graphic artist of church textile art in the Mainz area. From 1951 to 1955 he attended the Mainz State Art School, where he studied with Peter Paul Etz , he took part in the International Summer Academy in Salzburg with Oskar Kokoschka . From 1955 to 1957 he studied with Georg Meistermann at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , and since 1957 he has worked as a freelance artist in Mainz. Plum is particularly known for his exploration and reinterpretation of historical church rooms and his careful integration of glass into the church architecture, with reference to the liturgical functions of the environment.

Works

Darmstadt, St. Fidelis, entrance

Holy frieze with Edith Stein , Maximilian Kolbe and Elisabeth von Thuringia; Stained glass by Alois Plum in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Kassel) .

• Two lead glass windows in the altar wall of the Altmünster Church in Mainz's old town with the theme “Whitsun”, 1960.
• Glass mosaic memorial plaque to the dead and missing of the First and Second World War in the cemetery in Mainz-Hechtsheim , 1962.
• Window walls in St. Fidelis, Darmstadt, 1966
• Leaded glass window in the Church of Our Lady (Worms) . From 1966 to 1995, the Mainz glass painter Alois Plum created a window cycle of 19 windows in the upper storey , 10 windows in the ambulatory , two large transept windows, four tower chapel windows and 11 windows in the side aisles to replace the windows destroyed in the bombing of 1943.
• Leaded glass window in the parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Mainz-Weisenau , 1965–2005.
• Three choir windows in the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Bad Kreuznach) from 1969 to 1972. They show scenes from the Apocalypse of St. John.
• Choir window of the Sacred Heart Church in Mainz-Mombach , 1970.
• Leaded glass window "Herz Jesu, God's sacrificial fire" in the Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche Gustavsburg , 1969.
• Leaded glass window in the parish church of St. Franziskus in Gummersbach , 1975.
• Glass wall in St. Godehard (Göttingen) , 1974
• Window wall in the Catholic Church in Fulda- Lehnerz , 1976
• Leaded glass window in Martinskirche (Kaiserslautern) , 1978–1979.
• Wall painting in the upper and lower church of St. Marien in Seligenstadt, 1979.
• Seven windows in the Diakoniekirche Bad Kreuznach , 1980
• Lead glass window Jean-Marie Vianney in the foyer of the dining room, seminary in Mainz , 1982
• Wall painting in the Sankt Kilian Church in Mainz-Kostheim , 1984.
• Lead glass window in the Sankt Sebastian Church (Magdeburg) , 1985–95.
• Six lead glass windows in the main nave of the parish church St. Jakobus in Frankfurt-Harheim on topics from creation to completion, 1986.
• six windows in the foyer and staircase of the Christian Hospice in Dresden, 1990
• Leaded glass window in the Trinity Church (Berlin-Lankwitz) , 2002–2005.
• Our Father Window in St. Bartholomäus Kaiserslautern-Morlautern, 2005-2006 http://www.morlautern.de/die-fenster-der-pfarrkirche-st-bartholomaeus/

literature

Anne-Madeleine Plum (ed.): Faith in the light of revelation. The Great Confession of Faith laid out in words and portraits [with numerous full-page illustrations and a complete catalog raisonné by Alois Plum], Pneuma, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-942013-05-5

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Georg Custodis: Messages in Glass . In: MAINZ, quarterly books for culture, politics, economy, history . 26, No. 2, 2006, ISSN  0720-5945 , pp. 112-117.
2. ^ Paul Georg Custodis: The Mainz artist Alois Plum . In: The Minster . 61, No. 2, 2008, ISSN  0027-299X , pp. 111-114.
3. ↑ Alois Plum is restoring his Bilhildis in the foyer . Archived from the original on October 27, 2014. Retrieved on August 24, 2010.
4. ↑ City of Mainz Cemetery and funeral services: Hechtsheim cemetery: Remembrance of the past, mosaic in the funeral hall restored . Company Andreas Lehr. 1962. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
5. ↑ Memorial plaque of Alois Johannes Plum in the cemetery in Mainz-Hechtsheim is being renovated . Business enterprise Mainz. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013. Retrieved on August 24, 2010.
6. ↑ The windows of the Liebfrauenkirche . Catholic parish Liebfrauen Worms. 2005. Retrieved June 22, 2009.
7. ^ Worms in history: an overview of the monuments . Worms City. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved June 22, 2009.
8. ↑ Otto Böcher: The Liebfrauenkirche in Worms and its windows . Neuss, 1998, ISBN 3-88094-830-5 .
9. ↑ Picture gallery: windows, pictures & sculptures . Retrieved June 24, 2009.
10. ^ Rolf Dörrlamm: Alois Plums church window . In: MAINZ, quarterly books for culture, politics, economy, history . 4, No. 3, 1993, pp. 63-66.
11. ^ Jürgen Nikolay, Ernst Adam: Mainzer Kirchenführer . Leinpfad, 2004, ISBN 3-937782-18-4 , p. 200.
12. ↑ Hubert Kies Claus Daschmann: History of the Church and Parish Herz-Jesu in Gustavsburg . Diocese of Mainz. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
13. ↑ St. Franziskus in Gummersbach # The interior of the church . Retrieved August 24, 2010.
14. ↑ Completion of the church in 1972, consecration of the church in 1975, cf. Karin Berkemann: Architecture in the everyday test: The Fakir Hobby TE, in: moderneREGIONAL October 2016 ( http://www.moderne-regional.de/der-fakir-hobby/ , on the occasion of the on behalf of the Strasse der Moderne in cooperation with the Dommuseum Mainz exhibition "Forever. Modern Churches in the Diocese of Mainz" curated by Karin Berkemann, photos: Marcel Schawe); Robert Schnabel et al. (Arr.): 1966–2016. 50 years of St. Marien Seligenstadt, ed. by Holger Allmenroeder for the Catholic parish of St. Mariae Annunciation Seligenstadt, Seligenstadt 2016.
15. ↑ Prayer cards: “Prayer for Vocations”, Diocesan Office Professions of the Church, November 2009
16. ↑ Helmut Wirth: A journey of discovery through cultural treasures . In: Main Rheiner , April 6, 2005. Archived from the original on April 11, 2005. Retrieved on June 17, 2015. 
17. ↑ Alois Plum: Art with glass / most important works . Alois Johannes Plum. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
18. ↑ The windows of the Mainz artist Alois Plum in the main nave . Retrieved August 24, 2010.
19. ^ Gerhard Richter: Lankwitzer Church Stories . Ev. Dreifaltigkeitsgemeinde-Lankwitz. Archived from the original on January 21, 2014. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
20. ↑ Anne-Madeleine Plum: Faith in the Light of Revelation (PDF; 1.7 MB) Pneuma. Retrieved March 2, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Alois Plum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alois Plum's website
• Always new ideas for new tasks Alois Plum's 75th birthday wish: “Still being able to design many rooms” in: Faith and Life Church newspaper of the Diocese of Mainz, issue 10 of March 7, 2010