Andreas Felger
Andreas Felger (born January 1, 1935 in Mössingen - Belsen ) is a German painter , sculptor and glass artist .
Life
After an apprenticeship as a draftsman, Felger studied from 1954 to 1959 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He first worked as a textile designer . In the 1970s he turned to the woodcut technique and painting .
He created colored woodcuts , watercolors , oil paintings , sculptures , wooden reliefs and glass windows . His work is shaped by his religious spirituality , but is not tied to a religious trend and is not bound by any denomination .
His works are represented in public institutions, museums and collections and have been shown in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad since 1970. There are also numerous book publications, among others together with Anselm Grün , Franz Kamphaus , Manfred Siebald , Joachim Wanke and Oliver Kohler . He illustrated a Bible edition with a total of almost 300 watercolors and sketches.
Since 1960 he has been working as a freelance artist. In 2002 he founded the Andreas Felger Culture Foundation to promote contemporary visual arts.
Andreas Felger lived and worked from 1991 to 2009 in the Gnadenthal Monastery in the Jesus Brotherhood , a Christian community of which he has been a member since 1973. He has been living in Mössingen-Belsen again since 2009 and has been working in a former chapel in Mössingen-Bad Sebastiansweiler, which he calls Atelier K , since 2010 .
literature
- Raint Duffert: The wooden reliefs by Andreas Felger on the "I am" words of Jesus in the Resurrection Church in Mainz , in: Das Münster 45 (1992), pp. 269-277.
- In the morning it's jubilation, from the "Preisungen Davids ", (The Book of Prizes, translated into German by Martin Buber , 10th edition of the 1958 edition) Watercolors by Andreas Felger, foreword by Albrecht Goes , Presence Verlag, Hünstelden-Gnadenthal 1994, ISBN 3-87630-458-X .
Works
- Wooden relief in the Bethesda Hospital Stuttgart ( Memento from June 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Glass window: Chapel on the Höchst, Deggenhausertal
- Linden wood altar relief (1986), antependums and principal pieces: altar, pulpit, baptismal font (1983/5) and Easter candlestick (2010) in the Lukaskirche (Frankfurt)
- Christ Pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hanover.
Web links
- Literature by and about Andreas Felger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Andreas Felger in the German Digital Library
- Interview with Andreas Felger 2007 (PDF file; 39 kB)
- Website of the Andreas Felger Cultural Foundation with vita
Individual evidence
- ^ Exhibition Andreas Felger-Painting Exhibition announcement City of Ilmenau 2002
- ↑ Monumental oil paintings of unusual color intensity Exhibition announcement Haus am Dom 2008
- ^ Andreas Felger: The (artist) Bible , af-kulturstiftung.de, message from May 2015.
- ↑ Hour of the Most High
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Felger, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and glass artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belsen (Mössingen) |