Günther Reul

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Günther (Peter Josef) Reul (born March 13, 1910 in Herbesthal ; † March 25, 1985 in Gelsenkirchen ) was an artist who worked primarily as a church painter and created numerous church windows and murals, especially in the Ruhr area.

Life

Günther Reul was born on March 13, 1910 as the eldest of six children of the church painter Hubert Wilhelm Josef Reul and the plasterer Helene Johanna. Spiller from Gelsenkirchen was born in Herbesthal (Belgian from 1920). During the First World War the family was temporarily evacuated to Gelsenkirchen. After Günther Reul had attended school in Eupen and then in Herzogenrath from 1916, he began an apprenticeship in his father's company in 1924. By 1930 Günther Reul completed a degree at the Folkwang School for Design in Essen, a. a. with Professor Karl Kriete . At the same time, like his brother Heribert, he worked in his father's workshop. Günther Reul was released from military service because of an arm injury; from June 1943 he worked for the municipal administration in (Herzogenrath-) Merkstein near Aachen. After the end of the war he settled as a freelance church painter in Gelsenkirchen, where he married the wholesale and retail saleswoman Maria Wagner in 1947, with whom he had three children. Günther Reul died on March 25, 1985 in Gelsenkirchen.

plant

Günther Reul designed numerous church windows, murals, mosaics and Stations of the Cross in the Ruhr area and the Lower Rhine, as well as in Belgium, France, Great Britain and the Philippines. Among other things, works by him can be found in the following churches:

  • Bottrop, Catholic Church of St. Michael
  • Bottrop-Kirchhellen-Grafenwald, Catholic Church Holy Family
  • Dortmund, Catholic Church of St. Albertus Magnus
  • Dortmund, Catholic Church of St. Anthony of Padua (1959)
  • Dortmund, Catholic Church of St. Apostles
  • Duisburg - Huckingen , Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul
  • Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck-Ost, Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity (1951)
  • Gelsenkirchen-Bulmke, Catholic Church Holy Family
  • Gelsenkirchen-Erle, Protestant parish Buer-Erle
  • Gelsenkirchen-Horst, St. Josef Hospital
  • Gelsenkirchen-Hüllen, Herz-Jesu-Kirche
  • Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf, Catholic Church St. Josef (1957)
  • Herzogenrath, Marienkirche (1953)
  • Mülheim an der Ruhr , Christ-König-Church (1956)
  • Mülheim an der Ruhr - Dümpten , St. Barbara
  • Mülheim an der Ruhr - Speldorf , Catholic Church of St. Michael
  • Oberhausen, Catholic Church of St. Michael
  • Oberhausen-Buschhausen, Evang. Luther Church
  • Oberhausen-Osterfeld, St. Marien Hospital
  • Oberhausen-Osterfeld-Rothebusch, Catholic Church of St. Marien
  • Oberhausen-Styrum, Helios St. Elisabeth Clinic Oberhausen
  • Recklinghausen, St. Joseph parish church
  • Schaephuysen, St. Hubertus Church (1959)

literature

  • Paul Montag, Elisabeth Tillmann, Brigitte Spieker (eds.): The Catholic Church in Dortmund . Bonifatius, Dortmund 2006, ISBN 978-3-89710-365-8 .
  • Brigitte Spieker and Rolf-Jürgen Spieker (eds.): Border crossers in times of upheaval. The Gelsenkirchen painter Günther Reul and his family . Beluga Public, Gelsenkirchen 2016, ISBN 978-3-942395-06-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Reul, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reul, Günther Peter Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Herbesthal
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1985
Place of death Gelsenkirchen