Christof Grüger

Christof Grüger (born December 28, 1926 in Namslau ; † March 31, 2014 in Schönebeck (Elbe) ) was a German glass artist .

Life

Grüger was born as the seventh son of a Silesian master painter; he was already busy with colors in his father's workshop.

Studying at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar brought him into contact with ideas from the Bauhaus . His lecturer Bruno Quass encouraged him to occupy himself with wax batik ; as a result he devoted himself primarily to abstract architecture-related glass design.

He furnished numerous churches of both Christian denominations in the area of ​​the former GDR , mainly in Saxony-Anhalt, with glass windows, Dall glass walls , mosaics and tapestries.

After becoming a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR in 1976 , Grüger also received official commissions in the secular area.

He was one of the few artists in the GDR who took up the ideas of the abstract glass art created in France and developed them independently since the late 1950s. His designs have also been put into practice in West German churches.

Sacred works

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St Mechthild (Magdeburg)

St Peter Paul (Dessau)

Markuskirche (Freiburg)

Altar (Fürstenberg (Havel))

• 1953: Altarpiece carpet in the St. Christophorus Church (Breitenhagen) location
• 1954: Lead glass design in the chapel of the ecumenical institute of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Lage
• 1955/56: Lead glazing Life of Jesus in the Protestant Church of St. Nicolai in Nachterstedt Lage
• 1956: 3 choir windows for the Evangelical Church (Waldangelloch) location
• around 1957: choir and side windows in the cath. Church Herz Jesu (Gommern) location
• 1958: Evangelical Church of Refuge (Rockenau) location
• 1959: 5 choir windows in the cath. Church of St. John the Baptist (castle) location
• 1962: Altarpiece carpet Passion and Resurrection in the Protestant town church Fürstenberg / Havel Lage
• 1962: 5 apse windows in the Protestant church to the father's house in Berlin-Baumschulenweg location
• 1962: 5 apocalypse choir windows in the cath. Stadtkirche St. Nikolaus (Worbis) location
• 1963: 7 choir windows in the Peter and Paul Church (Dessau) location
• 1965: Window of the cath. Church of St. Josef in Klein Wanzleben (dislocated) location
• 1965: Ship window, round window south wall, rose window in the cath. Church of St. Bonifatius in Wanzleben location
• 1967/68: Vision of Isaiah , concrete glass design in the altar wall of the Evangelical St. Mark's Church in Freiburg im Breisgau Lage
• 1968: Concrete glass design in the confessional chapel of the cath. Trinitatiskirche Grimma Lage
• 1968: equipment of the cath. Church of St. Gertrud in the Lutherstadt Eisleben location
• 1968: two hexagonal chancel windows in the cath. Church of Sr. Ursula Neussen Capuchin Terziarinnen in Buttstädt location
• 1971: Choir and side windows of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Bitterfeld) location
• 1971: Choir and side windows of the cath. Church of St. Josef in Klostermansfeld location
• 1971/72: Concrete glass window and wall hanging in the cath. Church of Our Lady (Meiningen) location
• 1972/73: several concrete glass windows and entrance door of the cath. St. Josef church in Rudolstadt location
• 1974: 3 apsid windows in plastic concrete glass technology for the cath. Church of St. Liborius in Gröningen location
• 1975: side window quoted by Piet Mondrian ; Christening banner in St. Joseph (Osterburg) location
• 1975–1977: ev. Community center-in Stralsund- Knieper-West (architect: Ulrich Müther ) location
• 1977: cath. Bad Liebenwerda Church
• 1980: cath. Church of St. Josef - St. Lukas in Neubrandenburg location
• 1981: Concrete glass window in the cath. Church of St. Josef (Ilmenau) location
• 1987: Tomb for the composer Wolfgang Fortner in the Handschuhsheim cemetery in Heidelberg Lage
• 1980: Design of the church hall for the Schönstadt sisters Friedrichroda Lage
• 1984: cath. Church of St. Andreas, Großer Dreesch , Schwerin Lage
• 1984: cath. Church of St. Mechthild (Magdeburg) location
• 1985: Tabernacle stele of the cath. Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Tangermünde) location
• 1989: Altar window for the New Chapel , Evangelical Hospital Queen Elisabeth Herzberge Lage
• 1989 - 2009: cath. Church of St. Bonifatius (Leinefelde) location
• Ceramic apse mosaic world view of Teilhard de Chardin in the St. Marienstift Hospital in Magdeburg Lage
• Concrete glass window in the "Winter Church" on the south side of St. Stephani Church (Calbe) location
• Small concrete glass window in the holiday home of the Protestant Inselkirche in Kloster Hiddensee location
• two lead glass windows in the cath. Church in Suckow
• Lead glass window in the Protestant Academy of Saxony-Anhalt in the Lutherstadt Wittenberg location
• Concrete glass window for the Protestant church in Markkleeberg - Großstädteln location
• Lead glass window Resurrection / Ascension in the Protestant church Wahlitz

Profane works

• 1974: 4 concrete glass windows The 4 Seasons in the entrance wing of the special school for the physically handicapped in Tangerhütte Lage
• 1977: 36 concrete glass reliefs in the home of the composer Jochen Thurm in Bad Berka
• 1976: Concrete glass window 4 times a day in the Franz-Vollbring-Sporthalle in Schönebeck- Lage
• 1984: Concrete glass design "Illness - Intervention - Recovery" in the Leipzig University Hospital (bed house (demolished in 2013))
• 1989/90: Art Nouveau hall in the Logenhaus Ferdinand zur Glückseligkeit in Magdeburg Lage

Honors

• In 2011, Christof Grüger and the blind sculptor Dario Malkowski were given honorary citizenship of the city of Schönebeck.

Exhibitions

• 2007: Wanderer Between Worlds . Exhibition in the atrium of Stadtwerke Schönebeck
• 2012: In the spectrum of light and color . Exhibition in the atrium of Stadtwerke Schönebeck

literature

• Erika A. Lehmann: Mission and concern. Volume 2. Thirteen artist paths here and today . Berlin, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 1980

Web links

• Personal homepage / Memento

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Community center in Stralsund-Knieper-West
2. ↑ Volksstimme: St. Joseph is to be deducted
3. ↑ Strasse der Moderne: Meiningen | Our Lady
4. ↑ Strasse der Moderne: Magdeburg | St. Mechthild