Claus Wallner

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Claus Wallner (born July 4, 1926 in Berlin , † July 29, 1979 in Hamburg ) was a painter and graphic artist specializing in the design of church windows.

Life

Grave of Ursula Querner / Claus Wallner , Bernadottestrasse cemetery

From 1940 to 1942 Claus Wallner received painting lessons from Otto Freytag . After the end of the war, he worked as a painter and set designer in southern Germany from around 1945 to 1948, before studying at the State Art School Hamburg (now the University of Fine Arts ). Until 1951 he studied with Theo Ortner , among others, and then learned how to make glass windows in Ulm. From 1952 Wallner received numerous orders to equip churches and public buildings in Northern Germany, for which he used lead glass , concrete windows , mosaics and ceiling painting as the preferred techniques . He often worked on an object together with Ursula Querner , with whom he had been married since 1953.

Study trips took him to France, Italy and Greece between 1952 and 1960. Since 1961 he and his wife have been in a summer studio on the small island of Scoglio Ravia in front of the Isola di Ponza .

After the death of his wife Ursula Querner, Wallner married her sister, the picture weaver Erika Querner, in 1970.
The joint grave of Ursula Querner and Claus Wallner is in the Bernadottestrasse cemetery , the gravestone bears a bronze relief with a couple in love.

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Some of his works can be found in museums and public art collections.

The stained glass windows for the Ulm Minster , for the main church St. Petri in Hamburg, for the Petrikirche in Braunschweig and for the Romanesque collegiate church of Gandersheim are considered to be his most important works . There are numerous other glass windows, mosaics and ceiling paintings for churches, schools and other public buildings that he made.

literature

  • Volker Detlef Heydorn: Painter in Hamburg . tape 3 . Christians, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 978-3-7672-0290-0 .
  • Dagmar Klein: Claus Wallner - painter and glass artist . In: Gießener Allgemeine Tageszeitung . May 29, 2004 ( excerpts from trinitatiskirche.de [accessed on June 28, 2012]).

Web links

Commons : Claus Wallner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inge Mosch: On the death of the artist C. Wallner: He created a work full of poetry. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt , July 31, 1979, accessed on December 31, 2017.
  2. ↑ Travel description to the island of Ponza during the 1970s. Archives of Time , accessed June 28, 2012.
  3. ^ Dagmar Klein: The painter Claus Wallner and his glass windows for Gießen churches. In: bibelwelt.de. February 1, 2005, accessed December 31, 2017.
  4. ↑ Figure tombstone at garten-der-frauen.de
  5. ↑ To the reconstruction of the Braunschweiger Petri-Kirche on the homepage of the community. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
  6. ↑ Curriculum vitae and detailed description of Wallner's work in Gießen on bibelwelt.de. Retrieved June 27, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Wallner, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1979
Place of death Hamburg