Ernst Jansen-Winkeln
Ernst Johann Jansen-Winkeln (born February 13, 1904 in Winkeln , † April 11, 1992 in Mönchengladbach ) was a German church artist.
life and work
Ernst Jansen-Winkeln operated expressionist church painting , designed church windows and liturgical objects. He was originally known for religious woodcuts that were printed in Catholic magazines. Jansen-Winkeln was close to the youth movement (see Catholic youth movement ). Some woodcuts also dealt with the worker. On the one hand, this was due to the fact that Jansen-Winkeln grew up in the industrial town of Mönchengladbach and, on the other hand, the worker was glorified at the time (see, for example, the book Der Arbeiter. Herrschaft und Gestalt by Ernst Jünger ). The motif of the worker also appears in the church painting by Jansen-Winkeln, for example in his main work, the painting of the church in Sistig / Eifel. (Workers in church wall paintings also appeared in the work of other Church Expressionists, for example in paintings by Peter Hecker .)
From 1929 on, Ernst Johann Jansen-Winkeln deepened his knowledge at the Cologne factory schools and there presumably in the department of the Cologne Institute for Religious Art .
Unusually, Jansen-Winkeln painted not only during the Nazi era, but also during the Second World War. It was not until 1942 that he became a soldier and soldier, which is why he was not able to resume and finish painting the church of Sistig until 1945-1948. In the later painting, he also included motifs from the dictatorship that had ended and the war. The Sistiger Church is perhaps the only one in which Hitler is painted on the wall, admittedly not for glory, but as a pact with demons .
In terms of art history, Ernst Jansen-Winkeln belongs to the Lost Generation and Expressive Realism .
Works
- Stained glass in St. Lambertus (Immerath) : large ornamental windows in the choir and the stained glass above the side altars
- Painting of the parish church of St. Stephanus in Sistig
- Archangel sgraffito on the facade of St. Michael's Chapel in Rinnen (Kall)
- Window in the church of St. Michael Abbey (Siegburg)
- Window in St. Martinus (Linnich)
- Altar cross with bronze body and a gold-plated cross with enamel inlay in the New Benedictine Abbey of Kornelimünster , both designed around 1954
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (February 23, 1984)
literature
- Annette Jansen-Winkeln: Ernst Jansen-Winkeln. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 706-709.
- Elisabeth Peters : Church wall painting in the Rhineland 1920–1940. A contribution to the history of the Cologne Institute for Religious Art . CMZ-Verlag, Rheinbach, 1996, ISBN 978-3-87062-026-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Jansen-Winkeln in the catalog of the German National Library
- Artist: Jansen-Winkeln, Ernst. On the website of the 20th Century Glass Painting Research Center
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation. Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 395.
- ↑ Benedictine Abbey Kornelimünster (Ed.): Benedictine Abbey Kornelimünster. Kornelimünster 1956, p. 15ff.
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jansen-Winkeln, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jansen-Winkeln, Ernst Johann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German church artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winkeln (Mönchengladbach) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1992 |
| Place of death | Mönchengladbach |