Ferdinand Selgrad

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Ferdinand Selgrad (born April 15, 1927 in Neunkirchen ) is a German glass and wall painter, watercolor, oil painter and mosaic artist who also works in bronze. He also worked as a book illustrator .

Life

After completing his school education, Selgrad attended the Master School of German Crafts in Kaiserslautern from 1942 to 1944 to be trained in interior decoration, painting and interior design.

Immediately after his release from American captivity on June 21, 1945, he painted a view of Neuleiningen as a watercolor on July 17, 1945 .

As a founding student of the State School for Arts and Crafts in Saarbrücken in the master class of the painter Boris Kleint and student of Karl Lorenz Kunz in elementary education and visual communication from 1946 to 1949, he attended Jacques Chevallier's class for glass window design, mosaics and frescoes from 1949 to 1950 at the École des arts appliqués à l'industrie in Paris. In contrast, the architect Rudolf Maria Birtel (1925–2009) states that he got to know Selgrad in 1952 while he was studying in Paris.

After graduating, he designed numerous glass windows, mosaics, reliefs and wall paintings for sacred and secular buildings in Saarland and beyond.

In addition to his artistic work, he worked as an art teacher at the Steinwald grammar school in Neunkirchen from 1969 to 1992 .

Ferdinand Selgrad lives and works in Spiesen .

Works and drafts

Equipment of secular buildings

  • 1960: “St. Christopher ", in 1960 as a colored mosaic on the Hüttenbergstraße 37 runs in Neunkirchen and it started in 2007 as a single monument under monument protection
  • 1964: Three arched windows in the Saarbrücken Mining Directorate, which is under monument protection , as a memorial for the victims of the Luisenthal mine disaster
  • 1967: Warehouse with office building, garage, car workshop and gas station on Lisztstrasse in Neunkirchen for Fritz Ringling based on the design by Rudolf Maria Birtel and the colored concrete relief by Ferdinand Selgrad, Spiesen
  • 1970: Apartment building with a medical practice in Neunkirchen, Mayor Ludwigstrasse 2, for Dr. med. Heinz Weinkauf based on the plans of the architect Rudolf Maria Birtel, concrete glass windows designed by Ferdinand Selgrad, concrete renovation in 1988

Equipment of sacred buildings

  • 1950–1951: Mosaic window (with his assistant Marianne Aatz, nee Klein) of the Catholic parish church of St. Maternus in Aschbach , built during this period according to the plans of the architects Moritz Gombert and building officer Hoferer from Völklingen , which is now a listed building
  • 1957: Mosaic picture "Holy Trinity" in the parish church of St. Mauritius in Alsweiler
  • 1957-1959: Construction of the Catholic Church of St. Barbara, Neunkirchen-Heinitz , according to plans by Peter Boehringer , Mayen, with designed by Ferdinand Selgrad Barbara window (concrete glass window)
  • 1959: Filialkirche (chapel) Maria Königin, Vierherrenborn, client: Catholic parish of Zerf, tabernacle, candle holder and sandstone relief: Ferdinand Selgrad
  • 1961: Maria Trost in Dillingen
  • 1966: Concrete glass window of the Catholic Church St. Barbara in Emmersweiler
  • 1966–1968: St. Menas parish church in Koblenz-Stolzenfels. 1966 to 1968 new building of a vestibule and liturgical redesign, tabernacle, tabernacle grille, lectern (in bronze) and concrete glass windows in the vestibule by Ferdinand Selgrad from Spiesen-Elversberg
  • 1966: Seven-part window paintings by Ott Frères from Strasbourg, based on designs by Selgrad
  • 1967: Ev. Heilig-Geist-Kirche (20th century) in Dudweiler, designed by the architects Rudolf and Klaus Krüger, and with concrete glazing designed by Selgrad, built by the Parisian glazier J. Barillet in 1967
  • 1968: Chapel in the Knappschaftskrankenhaus, Neunkirchen for the Saarknappschaft of the Rheinische Landeskirche in Düsseldorf, Episcopal Ordinariate Trier, new establishment of the antependium: petrified tree trunk, approx. 2 million years old, tabernacle and cross made of cast aluminum
  • 1968–1970: Brother Church in Düsseldorf based on the plans of the architects Rudolf and Klaus Krüger with glass paintings from Selgrad
  • 1969: Ten side windows executed by F. Binsfeld from Trier based on designs by Selgrad for the Protestant Advent Church in Jägersburg built between 1954 and 1956 based on the plans of the architect and university professor Rudolf Krüger
  • 1970: Catholic parish church of the Birth of Mary in Ottweiler, Wilhelm-Heinrichstrasse 21
  • 1997: Three windows in the choir of the Protestant church in Wiebelskirchen

Illustrations

  • Artur Kern : Come on, let's read. A holistic home primer. Saarbrücken, Universitäts- und Schulbuchverlag, 1964, 112 pages, with numerous colored illustrations by Ferdinand Selgrad

Exhibitions

literature

  • Marianne Albrecht-Bott: Saarbrücken - city guide. 2nd, updated edition, Petersberg 2013, p. 26. ISBN 978-3-86568-146-1
  • Thomas Janssen: Artist portrait: Master of the Barbara window - the painter Karl Ferdinand Selgrad from Neunkirchen / Saar, in: industrie-kultur 1, 2006, p. 40 f.
  • Günter Scharwath: "Our dead miners" - the stained glass by Ferdinand Selgrad. in: Between tradition and modernity: Buildings of the RAG Saarberg AG in the course of time 2003, p. 51 to 58 with eight colored illustrations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Between Figuration and Abstraction - Glass and Canvas , accessed on January 25, 2014
  2. ↑ Artur Kern : Come on, let's read. A holistic home primer. Saarbrücken, Universitäts- und Schulbuchverlag, 1964, 112 pages, with numerous colored illustrations by Ferdinand Selgrad
  3. ↑ Watercolor on paper, signature F. Selgrad on the lower right, July 17, 1945, approx. 38 cm x approx. 29 cm , accessed on February 3, 2014
  4. ^ "Marlen Dittmann in conversation with Rudolf Maria Birtel". Interview Architektur - Online Edition ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 8, accessed January 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.institut-aktuelle-kunst.de
  5. ↑ Color photographs and description , accessed on January 24, 2014
  6. ↑ Our dead miners , accessed on January 24, 2014
  7. ^ Catholic parish church of St. Maternus Aschbach , accessed on January 28, 2014
  8. ↑ A place of lived ecumenism ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stmarien-neunkirchen.de
  9. ↑ Delicately tinted light characterizes the church atmosphere , accessed on January 25, 2014
  10. ^ The Brother Church in Düsseldorf , accessed on January 25, 2014
  11. ↑ Figures and descriptions , accessed on January 28, 2014
  12. ^ The forgotten artist Karl Heinz Grünewald. ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 3, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wak-geschichte.de
  13. ↑ Heike Jungmann: Always looking for perfection . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung from November 29, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Selgrad, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass and wall painter as well as mosaic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen