Christel Kuball

Christel Kuball (born December 10, 1876 in Hamburg , † September 9, 1950 in Tötensen ) was a German art glazier .

Life

Christel Kuball was born as the second son of the master glazier Friedrich Wilhelm Christoph Kuball (born July 11, 1835, † April 4, 1900 in Hamburg) from Lüchow in southern Wendland .

He was apprenticed to Ferdinand Müller in Quedlinburg from 1891 to 1894 and then worked for various glass artists in Switzerland , Frankfurt am Main and Munich . From 1895 to 1899 he attended the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Then he joined his father's company in Hamburg in 1900.

He was married to Clara Jungnickel (born November 17, 1879, † September 10, 1962) since around 1904. In addition to their son Carl-Heinz (* August 31, 1909; † April 20, 1994) and daughter Ruth (* August 31, 1915; † January 18, 1999), they had two sons who died early.

Tomb of the Kuball family in the Ohlsdorf cemetery

After a short illness, he died at the age of 73 in Tötensen, where he had moved privately around 1938. He was buried at the cemetery in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf in the "RUHESTÄTTE FAMILIE CARL AND CHRISTEL KUBALL" across from the Cordes fountain (Cordesallee) (grave location: O 9, 31-40). The almost 7 meter long and 2.5 meter high grave wall made of ocher yellow limestone with expressionistically decorated tendrils along the entire upper edge contains the life data of the deceased members of the Kuball family, probably created by the sculptor Richard Kuöhl in 1925 .

Continuation of the father's business

Christel Kuball and his older brother Carl (born April 25, 1874 in Hamburg; † March 26, 1957) ran their father's business after their father's death in 1900 - now under the name “Gebr. Kuball ”- continued. While the brother Carl was responsible for the commercial and technical part (building glass), Christel took over the artistic task, namely the drafts and the subsequent execution of the glass paintings (art glass). Gebr. Kuball was commissioned with the glazing of numerous new Hamburg office and commercial buildings and in shipbuilding by the company Blohm + Voss . In addition, many stained glass windows for sacred buildings were made to designs by Christel Kuball.

Around 1936 the separation took place, after which Carl Kuball sole owner of the company "Carl Kuball" and Christel Kuball sole owner of the company "Gebr. Kuball ”. The company building at Breitestrasse 20, Hamburg-Altstadt, was completely destroyed in a bomb attack in 1943 . In 1950 Christel Kuball's son Carl-Heinz took over his father's business, “Gebr. Kuball ".

Works

Christel Kuball designed primarily church windows, but also windows for cemetery chapels, town halls, public buildings, office and commercial buildings as well as for private individuals and had them made by Gebr. Kuball. He also painted pictures. A catalog raisonné of the glass artistic works created by Christel Kuball is not available.

Church windows for churches in Hamburg: St. Annenkirche (Hamburg-Altstadt), St. Johannis (Hamburg-Eppendorf) , Main Church Sankt Katharinen (Hamburg) , Matthäuskirche (Hamburg) , Main Church Sankt Michaelis (Hamburg) , Gnadenkirche (Hamburg-St. Pauli ) , Maria Magdalena (Hamburg-Moorburg), Reconciliation Church (Hamburg-Eilbek) , Church of Resurrection (Hamburg-Barmbek) , Heilandskirche (Hamburg-Uhlenhorst), St. Jacobi Church (Hamburg) , Bugenhagen Church (Hamburg-Barmbek) , Easter Church (Hamburg-Ottensen ) , Immanuelkirche (Hamburg-Veddel) , Elisabethkirche (Hamburg-Eidelstedt) and Martinskirche (Hamburg-Horn) .

Church windows for churches outside Hamburg: St. Johannis (Lüchow) , St. Johannis (Dahlenburg), Christ Church (Tsingtau / China), Mayor Smidt Memorial Church (Bremerhaven), Secundus Church (Hennstedt / Dithmarschen district), Kirchhain town church , Heilig -Geist Church (Wohltorf), St. Michael Church (Stelle), St. Cyriacus (Kellinghusen) , Christ Church United Methodist (New York), Martin Luther Church (Trittau) , Zehna Village Church , St. Matthäi (Lübeck ) , Church of Klein Wesenberg, Church (Wedel).

Cemetery chapels in Elmshorn, Hamburg-Bergedorf, Hamburg-Flottbek, Hamburg-Nienstedten, crematorium Hamburg-Ohlsdorf , Schwerin and Hittfeld.

Windows in town halls in Emden , Hainichen , Malchin , Thorn (Pomerania) and Hamburg-Harburg .

Windows in public buildings, namely University of Hamburg , Völkerkundemuseum , teachers' seminar (Hamburg-Hohe Weide), arts and crafts school (Hamburg-Lerchenfeld) , Johanneum's school of scholars , commercial building Holstenwall 12 , Städtisches Museum zu Thorn (Pomerania), Rappolthaus (Hamburg), Klöpperhaus (Hamburg ), Mosaics in the skyscraper on Karl-Muck-Platz , library of the German booksellers' association, Hamburg , "Pelikan Apotheke Anno 1696, Hamburg-Altstadt, Hotel Reichshof Hamburg , Kaffee Hirte (Hamburg-Altona), Altonaer Volksbank e.G. mb H., branch Nienstedten , Feinkost Heimerdinger (Hamburg, Neuer Wall), Kreissparkasse Harburg , café of the "Brasiliansk Kaffe Kompagni" in Copenhagen and the Marburger Volksbank .

Exhibitions

Works by Christel Kuball and “Gebr. Kuball ”were featured in the exhibition of the Kunstgewerbeverein zu Hamburg (1909/1910), in the Werkbund exhibition on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne-Deutz (1914), in the Baltic Sea exhibition in Malmö (1914), in the Art Center, New York (1928) and in the Christmas fair for North German arts and crafts, Hamburg (1934) shown.

Award

Christel Kuball was awarded the "Golden Medal" (honorary award of the City of Leipzig) for his pictures "Birth of Christ", "Christ on the Cross", "Young Age", "Manhood" and "Old Age" at the building exhibition in Leipzig in 1913 honored.

literature

• JL Fischer: Glass painting by Christel Kuball , Hamburg, in: The Church: Central organ for the construction, furnishing and furnishing of churches, ecclesiastical buildings and facilities, Volume 14, Issue 3, Wittenberg 1917, pages 33-39.
• Christel Kuball: Glass Painting as Architecture , in: American Architect and Architecture, Volume 134, New York 1928, pages 191 f.
• NN: Master Christel Kuball † , in: Glass, Enamel, Ceramic Technique: GEKT; international journal for silicates, Hamburg 1950, volumes 1–2, pages 75 and 104.

Web links

• "The Kuball story: Kuball, a traditional Hamburg glass factory". Internet presence of the company Kuball Glaserei und Glashandel GmbH.