Erhardt Klonk

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South window in Herford Minster

Erhardt Klonk (born June 20, 1898 in Rinteln , † March 4, 1984 in Marburg ) was a German painter and glass painter .

Life

Klonk spent his youth in Marburg . After he was seriously wounded in World War I , he studied with Otto Ubbelohde in Goßfelden . He then attended the Academy in Munich from 1921 and began singing lessons. From 1922 he also received acting lessons. Engagements in Munich and Leipzig followed .

In 1926 Klonk returned to painting and moved away from Munich. After a visit to the Elisabeth Church in Marburg , Erhardt Klonk began to deal with stained glass . Stays in France and Quedlinburg followed . In 1935 he was appointed a lecturer at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf .

As a result of the Second World War , Klonk could no longer carry out his work at the art academy. He devoted himself to acting again and also worked as a set designer . Probably in 1952 Erhardt Klonk founded his own glass painting workshop near Marburg. His son Erhardt Jakobus Klonk later joined the company and continued the workshop in Oberrosphe from 1970 to 2009.

plant

Erhardt Klonk created over 300 church windows, mainly in Hesse . In 1927 two windows were made for the town church in Ziegenhain, in 1928 one window for the Protestant in Moischt. In 1935 he designed and manufactured the skylight in the consecration hall of the Naval Memorial in Laboe . After the war he carried out the complete renovation of the glass windows in the years 1961–1963 of the Johanneskirche in Giessen . In 1967 he also completed the large, triptych designed church windows of the Protestant St. Matthew's Church in Berlin-Steglitz with the motifs Baptism and Last Supper, as well as four small windows on the subject of the Resurrection. In addition, Klonk worked as a painter and also drew watercolors, oil paintings, mosaics, wall paintings and sgraffiti. Some of these works are in the possession of the State Art Collection in Kassel . The estate is in the regional church archive in Kassel and contains 177 drafts of glass windows and wall designs.

literature

  • Götz J. Pfeiffer: "Now I dealt very seriously with glass painting". The works of Erhardt Klonk from the period 1927 to 1940, in: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Vol. 123, 2018, pp. 289–312.
  • Lena Kessel (Ed.): Erhardt Klonk, Marburg. Progress-Verlag Fladung, Darmstadt 1963. (with a foreword by Wilhelm Jung and an introduction by Will Héraucourt ) Online
  • Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive realism. Painting of the Lost Generation. Hirmer, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7774-6420-1 , p. 400.
  • Wetzlar Dombau-Verein eV (ed.), Gerhild Seibert: The cathedral to Wetzlar. Choir window. Wetzlar 2004, p. 35 f.

Web links

Commons : Erhardt Klonk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ev. Matthäusgemeinde Berlin-Steglitz (ed.), Hildegard Vollmer: From the history of our church windows Berlin 2005, p. 23 f.
personal data
SURNAME Klonk, Erhardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Rinteln
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 1984
Place of death Marburg