Günter Grohs

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Günter Grohs (born June 13, 1958 in Wernigerode ) is a German glass painter and designer of paraments .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1977 and an internship at the Derenburg glassworks and the Quedlinburg glass workshops, Günter Grohs studied artistic glass design (diploma) at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art in Halle from 1980 to 1985 . This was followed by a two-year traineeship with Rüdiger Reinel and from 1986 working in his own workshop.

In 1991 Grohs successfully participated in the Corning Glass Review 12 (The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, USA) with a contribution from 100 exhibits selected worldwide.

In the same year he closed his own workshop and since then has worked with various glass painting workshops such as the F. Schneemelcher glass workshops in Quedlinburg and the Derix glass studios in Taunusstein .

In 1992 he was invited to give a lecture at the II. World Glass Congress Glasnost - Opening the Iron Curtain in Reno, Nevada, USA.

In 2008 he taught on a project basis at the University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau / Faculty of Applied Arts in Schneeberg .

Günter Grohs won first prizes in numerous international competitions (e.g. complete glazing of the former Dominican Church of St. Christoph in Bamberg , today the assembly hall of Otto Friedrich University), including sites of the UNESCO World Heritage.

In addition to artistic glass design, Grohs deals with paramentics (most recently for the St. Pauli University Church in Leipzig ), typography, wall and ceiling painting (e.g. regional church office of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany in Erfurt, St. Mary's Church in Sandersdorf- Brehna ).

Honors

Exhibitions / participations (selection)

  • 1987 Young Glass '87. An International Competition , Ebeltoft Glass Museum, Denmark (competition)
  • 1987 Art and Sport, exhibition for the VIII. Gymnastics and Sports Festival and the XI. Children's and youth party of the GDR 1987. Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
  • 1988 Architecture-related glass, II. Glass exhibition of the GDR Erfurt '88. Gallery at the fish market; House of the Red Ox, Erfurt
  • 1989 form and function. Building and furnishing with handicrafts. Education Center of the Diocese of Mainz; Chamber of Crafts of the Saarland, Saarbrücken
  • 1993 Art and Form 1993. Exhibition at Handwerksform Hannover
  • 2003 International glass painting in transition. German Glass Painting Museum Linnich
  • 2011 Modern stained glass. The fascination of color in the backlight. Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
  • 2012 Contemporary glass painting in Germany. Center international du Vitrail, Chartres , France
  • 2014 highlights. Masterpieces of contemporary stained glass in Naumburg Cathedral, Naumburg
  • 2016 highlights of the world. International panorama of contemporary stained glass , Center international du Vitrail, Chartres, France
  • 2017 Günter Grohs glass window / Frank Bilda Photography. Leaning House Museum, Wernigerode

Works (selection)

  • Trier, Benedictine Abbey St. Matthias , three additional choir window designs in the church (competition), two windows in the crypt, 1995, 2014
  • Quedlinburg, Julius Kühn-Institut , 32-part, multi-storey glass designs in the foyer and in the corridors (competition), 2006
  • Quedlinburg, Wipertikirche (UNESCO World Heritage), three choir windows, group of windows in the west gable, entrance to the crypt, complete glazing planned, from 2007
  • Wuppertal-Elberfeld, cemetery church (architect: Johannes Otzen , 1897), total glazing (competition), 2008–2017
  • Verden (Aller), St. Maria and St. Caecilia Cathedral, two south transept windows, full glazing planned, from 2011
  • Halberstadt , St. Stephanus and St. Sixtus Cathedral, south transept window, north transept window planned (competition), from 2012
  • Leipzig, Völkerschlachtdenkmal , reconstruction of the four themed windows in the Hall of Fame, 2012
  • Sandersdorf-Brehna, St. Mary's Church, total glazing, ceiling picture with writing frieze, 2012, 2014
  • Bamberg , assembly hall of Otto Friedrich University (former Dominican Church of St. Christoph, UNESCO World Heritage), overall glazing (competition), 2013
  • Silstedt, Wasser- und Abwasserverband Holtemme-Bode, floor-to-ceiling mirrored glass object in the foyer of the administration building, 2013
  • Lutherstadt Eisleben , St. Petri Pauli Church , total glazing of the eleven windows in the nave, 2014
  • Naumburg , St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, Cathedral Treasury Vault, two glass pictures on permanent loan, since 2014
  • Köthen, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences , library, eleven-part room-high glass object in the room in front of a spiral staircase, 2015
  • Bautzen, St. Petri Cathedral , six ambulatory and two gallery windows in the Catholic part of the Simultankirche, 2015–2016
  • Erfurt, Collegium Maius , ten-part glass object in the main staircase of the regional church office of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (competition), 2016
  • Wernigerode, St. Johannis Church , eleven choir windows (competition), 2016
  • Zeitz , Michaeliskirche, a southern choir window; Back wall for the Cranach painting "Christ as Salvator", desk, altar, Easter candlestick, 2016, 2017
  • Göttingen , St. Johannis Church , window above the Romanesque north portal, total glazing of all six ship windows planned, from 2017
  • Wernigerode, St. Sylvestri Church , group of three windows in the north transept above the Gadenstedt epitaph, 2017
  • Leipzig, Paulinum - auditorium and St. Pauli University Church , four antependums each for the Pauline and people's altars and the ambo , 2017

Literature (selection)

  • New Glass, 2/1991, Corning Glass Revue 12, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA.
  • Beazley, Mitchell (ed.): Architectural Glass Art . Form and technique in contemporary glass , Reed International Books, London 1997, ISBN 1-85732-989-9 .
  • Schneemelcher, Frank (ed.): Günter Grohs - Designed Glass , Jüttner, Wernigerode 1998, ISBN 978-3-910157-06-4 .
  • Baden Fuller, Kate (ed.): Contemporary Stained Glass Artists. A Selection of Artists worldwide , A&C Black, London 2006, ISBN 0-7136-5428-7 .
  • Lagier, Jean-Francois (ed.): Contemporary glass painting in Germany, Center international du Vitrail, Chartres, France 2012, ISBN 978-2-908077-06-3 .
  • Brülls, Holger (ed.): AGAINST LIGHT - Günter Grohs, Imhof, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-954-2 .
  • United cathedral donors to Merseburg and Naumburg and the collegiate monastery Zeitz (ed.): GLANZ LICHTER. Contemporary art glass painting, Imhof, Petersberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7319-0085-6 .
  • Nestler, Iris (ed.): Masterpieces of 20th Century Glass Painting in the Rhineland, Volume I, Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-87448-393-3 .
  • Lagier, Jean-Francois (ed.): The great book of contemporary stained glass, Center international du Vitrail, Chartres, France 2016, ISBN 978-2-908077-08-7 .

Web links

Commons : Günter Grohs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Grohs: Jointly realized projects at derix.com, accessed on January 15, 2018
  2. ↑ Stefan Michel: “Everything is allowed, but not everything is good. Everything is allowed, but not everything builds up. ”Notes on Church History on Lutheran Paramentics , accessed on January 15, 2018
  3. ^ Museum of 1000 Places (Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning)
  4. ↑ New cathedral window: 80 square meters of art , article in the Volksstimme of May 26, 2012, accessed on January 15, 2018.
  5. ↑ [1] Confirmants explain the windows, accessed on April 26, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Grohs, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass painter and designer of paraments
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode