August Blepp
August Blepp (born January 9, 1885 in Weilen unter den Rinnen , † August 15, 1949 ibid) was a German church painter .
The interior of numerous churches was designed by him. Among other things, he designed the altar wings of St. Nicholas' Church in his hometown, where a street was named after him. Blepp was a student of the painter Adolf Hölzel . It can be assigned to Expressionism .
Life
August Blepp was born on January 9, 1885 in Weilen unter den Rinnen. After attending elementary school, he started an apprenticeship as a painter in Hechingen in July 1899 , after which he passed the journeyman's examination in October 1902. He then spent time as a journeyman and wanderer in Freiburg im Breisgau , Stuttgart , Switzerland and finally returned to Stuttgart, where he attended the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts from 1904 . In autumn 1908 he entered the Royal Württemberg Academy of Fine Arts , where he was influenced by his teachers Robert Poetzelberger , Carlos Grethe and Adolf Hölzel . During 1913 travels to Lake Constance and the Bavarian Alps . On August 7th, 1914 involuntary entry into the Württemberg infantry, from December 1914 front-line deployment on the Somme and near Verdun . In January 1919 Blepp was released from army service as a private . Until the late summer of 1919 he worked as a drawing teacher in Heilbronn , after which he worked as a freelance artist.
Blepp has made a particular contribution to the area of sacred painting. From 1921 he mainly designed altar wings and church interiors. At the end of November 1923 he traveled through Italy for four months with the Swiss painter Karl Röhrli. From around 1927 Blepp employed two assistants: the painters Karl Bauer from Ravensburg (1927 to around 1937) and Anton Geiger from Schörzingen (until 1939). In 1928 married Blepp his wife Anna (born Strong, born May 15, 1887 in Bonn , †?).
In January 1933 Blepp won a design competition that had been announced by the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft , Reichsbahndirektion Stuttgart . It was about the painting of the walls of the dining room in the reception building of the port station in Friedrichshafen .
Blepp became a member of the Weilener Municipal Council, in 1935 he received honorary citizenship in Weilen on the occasion of his 50th birthday . Together with the Lindau sculptor Willi Veit , he continued to design churches (e.g. the crucifix for the Aichstetten altar in 1943 ). In the summer of 1944, Blepp was drafted as a private to the State Rifle Battalion. After a short training in Lahr , he was obliged to do guard duty in the Utting concentration camp on Lake Ammersee (a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp ) until the end of the war . After the end of the war he was briefly interned in Utting, but was soon released again and classified in 1948 as "unencumbered".
On November 20, 1945, the Balingen District Administrator Robert Wahl, in agreement with the French military government, appointed Blepp as a member of the municipal council committee of von Weilen ud R.
August Blepp died of stomach cancer on August 15, 1949. He is buried in the cemetery of his hometown Weilen.
Works
From 1921 to 1949 Blepp was responsible for the design of 56 churches and also completed designs for three other churches. Already during his lifetime his work was the subject of exhibitions, e.g. B. in Speyer 1925, Ulm 1926, Rottenburg am Neckar 1932, Tübingen 1945 or Ravensburg 1949/46.
In around a quarter of the churches that August Blepp helped design, his works have now been completely or partially painted over. The estate, about 1500 documents, is the county archives of the Zollernalb district ( Balingen managed).
- 1921 Parish Church of St. Afra, Ratshausen
- 1921 Parish Church of St. Georg Aixheim
- 1922 Parish Church of St. Pelagius, Rottweil -Altstadt / Evang. Balingen cemetery church
- 1923 Parish church St. Nikolaus, Weilen unter den Rinnen / Parish church St. Ulrich, Wellendingen
- 1924 Parish church of St. Hippolyt and Cassian, Frittlingen / cemetery chapel and war memorial in Rottweil old town
- 1925 Parish Church of St. Cäcilia, Dauchingen
- 1926 Rottweil town hall / St. Michael cemetery chapel, Binsdorf
- 1927 Parish Church of St. Anastasia, Baisingen / Marienkirche, Donaueschingen
- 1928 Parish Church of St. Petrus Canisius , Friedrichshafen
- 1929 Catholic church Bad Herrenalb / parish church St. Dionysius, Schlatt / parish church St. Gallus, Rangendingen / parish church St. Johannes-Baptist, Lautlingen / hospital chapel, Schramberg / parish church St. Peter and Paul, Dürbheim
- 1930 Own house in Weilen u. d. R./Filialkapelle Herz Jesu, Oberbränd / Parish Church Assumption of Mary, Rechberghausen / Parish Church St. Ulrich, Kirchheim unter Teck
- 1931 Parish church Kirchhausen / Spreter house, Rottweil / Spaichingen hospital chapel / St. Petrus-Canisius parish church , Friedrichshafen / St. Otmar parish church, Hochmössingen
- 1932 Parish Church of St. Nikolaus, Heggelbach / War Memorial Chapel and Mortuary, Oberndorf am Neckar / Parish Church of St. Jakob d. Ä., Gentlemen
- 1933 Dining room in the reception building in the port station, Friedrichshafen / St. Michael parish church, Denkingen
- 1934 Parish Church of St. Martin, Fridingen an der Donau / Parish Church of St. Margarethe, Margrethausen / Parish Church of St. Elisabeth, Tailfingen
- 1935 Parish Church of St. Georg, Weilheim / Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul Hausen am Tann / Parish Church of St. Nikolaus, Dietingen / Parish Church of St. Kilian and Ursula, Ellwangen
- 1936 Parish Church of St. Maria, Ennabeuren , Kreissparkasse, Rottweil
- 1937 Kreissparkasse, Rottweil / parish church St. Theresia, Trossingen / parish church St. Josef, Hofen / Mauser-Werke , Oberndorf am Neckar / Gasthaus Steinwandel, Rottweil / parish church St. Johannes Baptist, Wilhelmskirch
- 1938 St. Michael parish church, Denkingen / Schramm brewery (Waldhorn facade), Oberndorf am Neckar
- 1939 St. Laurentius parish church, Deißlingen / barracks (casino), Heilbronn / brewery restaurant (inside) Waldhorn, Spaichingen
- 1940 Jordanbad (Biberach an der Riß) parish church of St. Herz Jesu
- 1941/42 Stations of the Cross in Dietingen / St. Laurentius parish church, Deißlingen
- 1942–1949 Parish Church of St. Michael and Kreuzweg Aichstetten
- 1943 Church in Ellwangen / War Memorial Altar, Schömberg (near Balingen)
- 1945/46 Parish Church of Our Lady, Hausen ob Rottweil
- 1945 Parish Church of St. Matthäus Dormettingen
- 1945–1949 Tailfingen glass window
- 1946 Way of the Cross, Biberach (Baden)
- 1946/47 Palmbühl, Schömberg (near Balingen) / St. Johann Baptist parish church, Wuchzenhofen
- 1947 Parish Church of St. Gallus, Schörzingen / Parish Church of St. Laurentius, Deißlingen
- 1948 Chapel of the Scheer retirement home
- 1948/49 Corpus Christi altar, Schömberg reservoir (near Balingen)
- 1949 Parish Church of the Holy Spirit Balingen / Parish Church of St. Michael, Aichstetten
- Undated:
- Steinernes field cross Waldstetten
- Parish Church of St. Verena, Dautmergen
- Catholic Church, Tailfingen
- Drafts for the congress hall of the Deutsches Museum , Munich
- Spaichingen town hall facade
- Parish Church of St. Christophorus, Stuttgart-Wangen
- St. Verena Chapel, Deilingen
- Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul, Neukirch
- Parish Church of St. Marcellus, Meckenbeuren
- 1948 Hausen ob Rottweil, side altar according to the signature
Notes and sources
- ^ Röhrli came from Winterthur. The route led via Milan , Genoa , Rome , Naples , Salerno , Amalfi , Capri , Assisi , Perugia , Florence , Padua and Venice to Switzerland . On March 11, 1924 he returned home from Einsiedeln Monastery (Switzerland) to Weilen.
literature
- Zollernalbkreis (ed.): Andreas Zekorn / Andreas Zoller: Expression and faith. The artist and church painter August Blepp [Ill.] (1885–1949) . [Catalog for the exhibitions in the Zollernalbkreis district office….] With a contribution by Wolfgang Urban . Zollernalbkreis, Balingen 1996, ISBN 3-927249-08-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about August Blepp in the catalog of the German National Library
- August Blepp denazification files as digital reproduction ( files 1 and 2 ) in the online offer of the Sigmaringen State Archives
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Blepp, August |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1885 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | While under the gutters |
DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1949 |
Place of death | While under the gutters |