Franz Wendler

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Franz Wendler (born June 6, 1913 in Munich , † October 28, 2007 in Rheinbach ) was a German glass artist. He mainly dealt with the engraved ornament.

Life dates

Franz Wendler was born in Munich on June 6, 1913 and grew up in Haida and Steinschönau in northern Bohemia. After attending secondary school in Bohemian Leipa , he began an apprenticeship as a glass engraver in 1928. Then he opened his own workshop.

After the Second World War he moved from northern Bohemia to western Germany. After intermediate stops in Bad Godesberg and Bedburg , he came to Rheinbach in 1950 , where many expelled glass artists from northern Bohemia settled and two years earlier the Steinschönau Glass School had opened. With his workshop, Franz Wendler made a significant contribution to the establishment of glass processing in Rheinbach after the Second World War and embodied a living piece of European glass art history.

Franz Wendler died on October 28, 2007 in his home in Rheinbach .

Honors

In May 2008, Stettiner Strasse in Rheinbach, where Franz Wendler had lived since 1967, was renamed Franz-Wendler-Strasse.

Artistic importance

Franz Wendler produced cut and engraved individual pieces according to his own designs, including Art Nouveau - Romans , friendship cups, cups made of crystal and overlaid glass . Today there are collectors of Wendler glass all over the world. Several West German glass museums honored his work with lavish special exhibitions.

The highlights of his extensive work were several embassy orders, such as a work in the Chinese character for the first Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China Zhou Enlai or a glass goblet for John F. Kennedy with the elaborate depiction of the history of shipping from the pharaonic ship to the modern tanker.

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personal data
SURNAME Wendler, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2007
Place of death Rheinbach