György Lehoczky

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György Lehoczky (born August 30, 1901 in Vihnyepeszerény , Austria-Hungary ; † January 16, 1979 in Saarbrücken ; full name: György Károly László Lehoczky ) was a Hungarian-German architect and church window painter .

Life

Before 1945

György Lehoczky was born to Hungarian parents in what is now Slovakia. The family first moved to the free town of Fiume (today: Rijeka ) in 1910/1911 , then to the Hungarian-Croatian Zagreb , where they stayed until the collapse of the Danube monarchy . After fleeing to Hungary Lehoczky studied at the Technical University of Budapest from 1921 to 1927 Architecture . For four years he worked as a salaried architect or as an assistant at the university, and from 1931 he was self-employed in Budapest. During this time he took part in 95 architectural competitions, of which he was awarded first prize in 32.

After 1945

In 1945 he fled to Vorarlberg and worked temporarily as the artistic director of a ceramics factory. Lehoczky came to Saarbrücken in 1947, followed by his family a year later. As a stateless foreigner he did not get a work permit , he worked as a freelance artist. In 1955 he was in those days not yet the Federal Republic of Germany belonging Saarland naturalized; In 1967 he received German citizenship. From 1956 to 1965 he taught at the Technical College in Saarbrücken (today: Saarland University of Technology and Economics ).

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"Der Engelsturz" (glass window from the Evangelical Church of Gersweiler)

Lehoczky's work is divided into two phases: In the Hungarian years (1931 to 1945) his work as an architect predominated. His office in Budapest temporarily consisted of ten employees. Lehoczky built residential buildings, factories and exhibition stands at home and abroad, but also train stations and two aircraft factories for the Messerschmitt works, as well as six churches, a high school with boarding school and designed a complete climatic health resort. He was also involved in the conservation work on the Budapest Castle.

In the second, the Saarbrücken period , Lehoczky first looked for new tasks, from which new forms of expression developed. His most important church buildings include two monasteries: György Lehoczky built the Redemptorist monastery in Heiligenborn in Bous . A monastery was built between 1949 and 1952 at a legendary source of saints, where a National Socialist youth home with a Thingstätte was started in the early 1940s . The convent buildings were designed using the older building elements and were very simple. Lehoczky planned and built the monastery church and large parts of the interior. In nearby Püttlingen , planning began for a Redemptorist convent in 1955; the monastery church is designed with two aisles in layman and sister ship across the corner.

The focus of his work in that second creative period, however, was his glass windows, which can be found in numerous Saarland churches, but also in other public and private buildings and also outside the Saarland. Federal President Theodor Heuss was also present at the inauguration of the glass windows in the Saarbrücken collegiate church of St. Arnual and honored the artist on this occasion.

The following excerpt from the list of works shows the publicly accessible works (in churches and other public buildings). In addition to the works mentioned, Lehoczky created a large number of paintings, drawings and art objects that are now in private hands; Windows and wall paintings for private houses are also known.

"Hungarian phase"

Gasthaus Balaton at Lake Balaton ; Hungarian pavilion at the fair in Belgrade ; House of the Christian-National Association (Magyar Keresztyen Leanyegyesületk Nemzeti Szövetsege); Szekesfövaros in Budapest ; Allomasepület in Szabadbattyab ; Alloma rinse in agard ; Allomasepület in Kisvelence ; Design for the Bregenz Festival Grounds ; Design by Magyar Udvar; Fresco in the church of Jaak (Hungary) .

"Saarland phase"

Heiligenborn Abbey near Bous
Window in the apse of the collegiate church of St. Arnual
Window in the aisle of the collegiate church of St. Arnual

The most important works of Lehoczky from the phase after 1945 are the two monastery buildings: the Heiligenborn monastery in Bous (construction: 1949–1952, interior decoration: 1953–1960) and the Heilig Kreuz monastery in Püttlingen (construction and interior decoration 1956–1963).

In addition, he created a large number of large and small windows (some with lead glazing, some as concrete windows) in numerous Saarland churches and public buildings (such as hospitals, schools, cemetery halls and chapels), as well as a smaller number of windows and murals for private buildings (both commercial, bank and residential).

Works by Lehoczky can be found in the following Saarland locations: Bexbach (Prot. Christ Church); Blieskastel (Brenschelbach district,: Prot. Church; Oberwürzbach district, parish church Herz Jesu; Wolfersheim district, Prot. Church (formerly St. Stephan)); Dillingen ( Parish Church of the Holy Sacrament ); Eppelborn (Wiesbach district, Protestant church); Fischbach (Saar) (Protestant Church); Gersheim (Reinheim district, St. Markus parish church); Heusweiler (Protestant church; sister house; parish church Mariae Visitation; cemetery hall); Homburg (Beeden district, St. Remigius parish church; Jägersburg district, Prot. Church; Kirrberg district, St. Marien parish church); Illingen (St. Stefan parish church; formerly Höll-Fleischfabrik dining room and administration building, now a restaurant after expansion); Mandelbachtal (district Heckendalheim, parish church St. Joseph; district Ormesheim, parish church St. Mauritius; district Ormesheim, Marienkapelle (formerly St. Donatus)); Merzig (parish church of St. Peter; Merzig credit institution); Mettlach (Orscholz district, St. Marien parish church); Namborn (Catholic church; Baltersweiler district, Catholic church); Neunkirchen (Protestant Pauluskirche; girls' high school); Ottweiler (Protestant church; Protestant kindergarten; Steinbach district, Protestant church); Quiersche (Protestant church; Göttelborn district, miners' school); Rehlingen (youth center); Riegelsberg (Protestant church; elementary school); Saarlouis ( Protestant Church ; St. Elisabeth Hospital); Schwalbach (Derlen district, St. Josef parish church); St. Ingbert (credit institution; hospital); St. Wendel ( Niederlinxweiler district , Protestant church); Völklingen (Michaelskrankenhaus; Wehrden district, Protestant church; Heidstock district, cemetery hall; Heidstock district, Protestant church).

Saarbrücken : Altenkessel district : Ev. Luther Church; Primary school; District Alt-Saarbrücken : Emergency Church at the 40s grave ; Kreiskulturhaus dining room; Urban Settlement Society; Stadtsparkasse Saarbrücken; ev.-luth. Immanuelkirche; Ev. Old people's home; District Burbach : Parish Church St. Eligius; School; District Dudweiler : Kindergarten; District Gersweiler : Ev. Church; Ev. Parish hall; Cemetery hall; District Güdingen : Ev. Church; Klarenthal parish church St. Bartholomäus; Malstatt district : Ev. Church; Realschule Ludwigspark ; District Schafbrücke : Ev. Neuscheid Church; District Scheidt : Ev. Church; District St. Arnual : Parish Church of Christ the King ; Winterberg Clinic ; St. Arnual Collegiate Church ; District St. Johann : City Hall basement ; Deaconess house of the Protestant hospital; Old Ev. Church; Hell meat factory; Social care vocational training center (Schmollerschule).

Outside the Saarland, there are works in: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (Haute-Loire); Rastede (Oldenburg): St. Ulrich parish church; Montreal (Canada): Hungarian church, twelve windows with Hungarian saints; Moulin-lès-Metz ( Lorraine ): Saint Pierre parish church.

Exhibitions

Publications

  • György Lehoczky (pictures), Michaela Bach (text): Muki's wonder tree. Annette Betz-Verlag, ISBN 3-219-10316-2 .
  • György Lehoczky (pictures), Michaela Bach (text): Muki's wonderful journey. Munich 1973.
  • Géza von Habsburg-Lothringen: On the golden abundance of the world. Pictures and sketches by György Lehoczky. 2nd edition 1985, Heilbronn 1978.
  • György Lehoczky: Somehow it should have been with the very famous Noah's Ark. Text and Drawings from GL. Stadtmuseum St. Wendel, St. Wendel 2009, ISBN 978-3-928810-74-6 .

literature

  • Traudl Brenner: Barren Himmelsfeste was Lehoczky's first bang. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung from 24./25. May 2008, p. E 1 (east).
  • An angel led his hand. Works by the artist Györg Lehoczky in the St. Wendel Museum. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (St. Wendel edition) of May 14, 2009, p. C 4.
  • György Lehoczky working group, Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland (Ed.): György Lehoczky. With a catalog raisonné. Publishing house St. Johann, Saarbrücken 2010.
  • Jürgen Neumann: An almost forgotten artist. In the footsteps of the builder and glass painter Geörgy Lehoczky. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (St. Ingbert edition) of October 6, 2011, p. C8.
  • Joachim Conrad:  LEHOCZKY, György Kàroly László. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 26, Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 3-88309-354-8 , Sp. 868-880.

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