Emil Wachter

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Emil Wachter (born April 29, 1921 in Neuburgweier ; † January 12, 2012 in Karlsruhe ) was a German visual artist .

Live and act

Motorway Church St. Christophorus Baden-Baden
Jonas portal from St. Kilian in Osterburken , with concrete relief by Emil Wachter
Concrete relief on the Schlossbergsteg Freiburg im Breisgau

After graduating from high school , Emil Wachter studied theology and philosophy at the University of Freiburg from 1939 , interrupted by military service and imprisonment . Then he decided on painting and sculpture , which he studied at the Karlsruhe Academy . From 1954 Wachter worked as a freelance artist and taught from 1958 to 1963 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe .

Wachters works have been shown in over a hundred solo exhibitions. Some of his themes are taken from the Christian - Jewish tradition . Many of Wachter's works can be seen in sacred buildings , especially his many glass windows. The design of entire church buildings was also carried out by Wachter. He did not shy away from dealing with modern building materials , which is evident in his concrete reliefs . In addition to the diverse works in sacred buildings, Emil Wachter created an immense epic of secular painting, which includes ink and watercolors with Far Eastern grace and poetry as well as oil paintings (several large-format triptychs), which show landscapes, people and bizarre animal figures in color and complexity.

Awards and honors

Works (selection)

  • Ceiling painting
  • Altarpieces
    • St. Philippus, Munich Laim (1991)

Emil Wachter circular cycle path

The Bickesheim pilgrimage path, also known as the Emil-Wachter-Rundweg, is a circular cycle path as part of the Pamina cycle path and leads past important works by Emil Wachter. The cycle path leads through the communities of Durmersheim with Würmersheim, Au am Rhein and Neuburgweier. The early works of Wachter in nearby Bietigheim are excluded.

Literature (selection)

  • Nadya Badr: Emil Wachter. Early work 1942–1955. Karlsruhe 1996.
  • Emil Wachter. Paintings and drawings 1955–1995. Karlsruhe 1996.
  • Nadya Badr: Emil Wachter. Painted life. Künzelsau 2001.
  • Michael Schlagheck, Günter Berghaus (ed.): Getting to the bottom of life. Emil Wachter's Adveniat Crypt in the Essen Cathedral Church. With photos by Felix Wachter. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2002, ISBN 3-89861-156-6 .

Web links

Commons : Emil Wachter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Wachter in the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg, accessed on September 2, 2012
  2. ↑ AAS 100 (2008), n.9, p. 666.
  3. ↑ kath-neckarstadt.de: St. Bernard
  4. ↑ Kirsten Schlüter: Valuable church windows in the Konstanz clinic chapel have been destroyed, but nobody wants it to have been. Südkurier , May 15, 2019 accessed the same day.
  5. ↑ st-elisabeth-landau.de
  6. ↑ pamina-region.info: Bickesheim pilgrim path
personal data
SURNAME Wachter, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuburgweier
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2012
Place of death Karlsruhe