Eugen Keller (painter)
Eugen Keller (* May 7, 1904 ; † January 13, 1995 ) was a German painter and sculptor who created important works of art in public spaces , especially in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Education and artistic career
Eugen Keller went through artistic-academic training at the School of Applied Arts Nuremberg , the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich , the Art Academy in Stockholm and the ceramic technical school Höhr-Grenzhausen. From 1934, Eugen Keller worked as an artist and designer in Höhr-Grenzhausen , only interrupted by the military service from 1940 to 1945 . For his friend Jakob Kneip he created the statue of the Virgin Mary in Morshausen in 1951 . In Koblenz he designed the interior of the place of honor in the Hübeling battery , the facade of the Rhein-Mosel-Halle , the window wall and the relief in the Church of Hope in Koblenz's Pfaffendorfer Höhe district and the Hüttenhaus-Theater in Herdorf (Altenkirchen district), the entrance portal of the Koblenz administration building of the Rastal company and a wall mosaic in the Electoral Palace in Koblenz. When the artist's eye ailment worsened around 1984, he programmatically painted the picture The tortured person for the chapel of the Hedwig-Dransfeld-Haus, an educational institution of the Catholic Church in Bendorf , whereby he explicitly turned to the suffering person and against a classical one Representation of Christ decided.
In 1958, Eugen Keller was commissioned to design the newly built Roman Catholic Church Heilig Kruis Kerk (Church of the Holy Cross) in Amersfoort , Netherlands. On the one hand, he created the gable front over the main entrance there. This consists of a multicolored glass mosaic. Part of the gable front consists of colored pieces of glass that are attached to a layer of stucco, which gives the glass mosaic a relief-like impression. The mosaic shows the angel appearing to Moses. He also created the church windows and an approx. 200 square meter wall relief behind the altar. The basic shapes of the side windows go back to the architect's design. However, Eugen Keller was responsible for the design and coloring of the windows. The lead-framed windows were then manufactured by Flos in Tegelen, the Netherlands. Finally, Eugen Keller also created the windows of the baptistery. These windows form a strikingly colorful rendition of a school of fish. A total of 43 small and large fish can be seen. The smaller fish stand for the believers, the larger fish for Christ himself. In another interpretation, the smaller fish could stand for the baptized, who follow the big fish (Christ) through baptism.
literature
- Thomas Keller (Ed.): Eugen Keller. Life and work. Treuchtlingen 1990, ISBN 3-924828-35-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ before the renovation in 2011
- ↑ Dieter Kittlauß: The chapel of the Hedwig-Dransfeld-Haus. Archived from the original on March 12, 2020 ; accessed on March 11, 2020 (there are some comments on Eugen Keller).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keller, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1904 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1995 |