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)
- 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
- Overview of works at the 20th century stained glass research foundation
- Private homepage with books about Anton Wendling
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 | |
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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 |