Anton Wendling

Anton Wendling (born September 26, 1891 in Mönchengladbach ; † January 13, 1965 in Münsterlingen ) was a German painter , university professor and creator of expressionist church windows .

Life

Wendling grew up in Mönchengladbacher Kronprinzenstraße as the son of the coachman Anton Wendling (1861–1939) and his wife Elisabeth, born in the Hunsrück . Gräff (1861-1913), on. After attending elementary school, which he had attended with friends Heinrich Lersch and Hans Leifhelm , he learned the trade of lithographer in a graphic arts institute in Mönchengladbach. At the same time he took evening courses at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts . After a four-year apprenticeship, he took up a position in the design studio of the Franz Binsfeld glass workshop in Trier . The installation of the windows of the Dreikönigenkirche in Neuss, created by Jan Thorn Prikker in 1911/1912, impressed him so much in 1919 that, at the age of thirty, he decided to study at the Munich School of Applied Arts with Prikker, where he became his master's student . Another teacher there was Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke . After completing his studies (1923) and studying in Italy (1924), Wendling became Heinrich Nauen's assistant at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1927, Wendling - appointed by Rudolf Schwarz - became a teacher of mosaics and glass painting at the Aachen School of Applied Arts . From 1936 until his retirement he was a full professor for free-hand drawing and watercolor at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen . Wendling, like Dominikus Böhm , Jan Thorn Prikker and Heinrich Campendonk, was one of the overcomers of church historicism . Ludwig Schaffrath was his assistant and master student .

Works (selection)

St. Peter in Chains Cathedral , Cincinnati, Pantocrator and Peter scenes

Parish Church of St. Georg (Cologne)
Parish Church of St. Maria in the Capitol (Cologne)
Parish Church of St. Peter Mönchengladbach -Waldhausen 1933 (window and Petrus mosaic)
Marienthal Monastery Church (in Marienthal near Hamminkeln)
Parish Church of St. Clemens Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrath
Parish Church of St. Apollinaris (Lindlar-Frielingsdorf)
Parish Church of St. Agatha in Merchingen - regarding "St. Agatha ”in Merchingen see also Clemens Holzmeister and Peter Hecker
Parish Church of St. Maria Magdalena ( Brotdorf )
St. Josef in Saarbrücken - Malstatt : windows of the apse and the transept
Aachen Cathedral
Minden Cathedral
Church of Garnstock Baelen Monastery (Belgium), wood-carved altarpieces on the side altars and several crosses (1936)

Catholic branch church St. Borromäus Fischbach-Oberraden (Eifel), choir window (1936)

Parish church in St. Corpus Christi Essen-Bochold 1937, the sacrament windows in the crypt

St. Michael Church (Opladen) (Leverkusen), 1939

Parish Church of the Holy Spirit (Aachen)

Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Aachen-Burtscheid) six saint figures in enamel for the main altar (lost)

St. Alban (Boetzingen)

Design of the coats of arms of the bishops and archbishops of Mainz in the Mainz Cathedral, started with Berthold von Henneberg

Church of St. Valerius in Moselkern , church window

Parish Church of St. Vitus (Südlohn) , church window

St. Servatii (Munster)

Former collegiate church (Gaesdonck) near Goch

St. Engelbert (Cologne) (1953)

St. Sebastian (Aachen-Hörn) , baptistery, glass window "Fish as a symbol of baptism" (1954)

St. Peter in Chains Cathedral , Cincinnati, altar wall mosaic (1957)

Saint Hedwig's Cathedral (Berlin), window and two hanging carpets in applique technique (1963)

Collegiate Church of St. Viktor (Xanten) , large west window

Freiburg Minster , west window of Michael’s Chapel (1964)

Exhibitions

CULT AND FORM / NEW EVANGELIC, CATHOLIC AND JEWISH CUSTOM ART. Berlin, 1930
CULT AND FORM / NEW EVANGELIC, CATHOLIC AND JEWISH CULTURE. Hamburg, 1931
Contemporary religious art. Essen, 1932
Large art exhibition Essen. Essen, 1933
International Exhibition Paris 1937 / The German St. Michael Altar in the Vatican Pavilion. Paris, 1937
Christian contemporary art. Cologne, 1948
ARS SACRA - Young Christian Art. Aachen, 1951
Arte Liturgica in Germania - 1945/1955. Rome, 1956
The New Church. Cologne, 1956
Church art in the diocese of Aachen 1930 - 1980. Aachen, 1980
Anton Wendling. Multi-faceted strictness of form . German Glass Painting Museum Linnich , Linnich 2009
Anton Wendling: "in memoriam": ART Department Villa Museum Zinkhütter Hof, Stolberg 2016
ARS SACRA - Anton Wendling / Maria Hasemeier-Eulenbruch / Dominikus Böhm: Franziskaner-Klosterkapelle Garnstock, B-Baelen sV, 2017

literature

Lothar Schreyer : Anton Wendling. Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1962
Martha Vorberg: Anton Wendling. Man and artist. Bodan, Kreuzlingen 1976
Adam C. Oellers , Roland Rappmann, Hermann-Josef Reudenbach: Book covers 1890–1960. Cover and binding designs by Aachen artists. Grenz-Echo-Druckerei, Eupen 1998
Michael Schmitt: Anton Wendling's stained glass in the Cathedral of Our Lady, Luxembourg. 1st edition, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 3-7954-6180-4
Myriam Wierschowski (ed.): Anton Wendling. Multi-faceted strictness of form . German Glass Painting Museum Linnich , Linnich 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810046-5-6

Web links

Commons : Anton Wendling - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ The Mönchengladbach artist Anton Wendling died 50 years ago - Wendling (1891–1965) was considered an important representative of German glass painting ( Memento of December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Website from January 12, 2015 in the moenchengladbach.de portal , accessed on November 29, 2015
^ Nikolaus Bernau: St. Hedwig's Cathedral: Conversion East. Die Zeit, April 2, 2018, accessed on April 25, 2018 .
^ Heike Mittmann: The minster in Freiburg im Breisgau . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-933784-26-1 , p. 48

personal data
SURNAME	Wendling, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and creator of church windows
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mönchengladbach
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 1965
Place of death	Munsterlingen

[1] The Mönchengladbach artist Anton Wendling died 50 years ago - Wendling (1891–1965) was considered an important representative of German glass painting ( Memento of December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Website from January 12, 2015 in the moenchengladbach.de portal , accessed on November 29, 2015

[2] Nikolaus Bernau: St. Hedwig's Cathedral: Conversion East. Die Zeit, April 2, 2018, accessed on April 25, 2018 .

[3] Heike Mittmann: The minster in Freiburg im Breisgau . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-933784-26-1 , p. 48