Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen

Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen in 2000

Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen (born May 12, 1920 at Trendelburg ; † January 8, 2010 in Remshalden -Buoch) was a German glass painter , painter and draftsman . He was best known for his more than 500 church windows and architecture-related works at home and abroad.

Life

Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen came from a widely ramified noble family . After his participation in World War II , u. a. During the battle for Stalingrad , and during British imprisonment in a camp in Egypt , Stockhausen studied glass painting and mosaic with Rudolf Yelin at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1947 to 1952 .

As an artist, he initially devoted himself to architecture-related glass painting and was entrusted with commissions primarily from the church sector. In 1968 he became head of a class for general artistic training at the same academy. On October 1, 1971, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Culture appointed him to the chair of glass painting and mosaic previously held by Rudolf Yelin at the suggestion of the Academy Council . For several years he worked as the university's prorector.

The contribution that Stockhausen made to contemporary glass painting as an artist and academic teacher has been noticed with attention beyond Germany since the late 1970s. He put the free glass picture he developed from 1964 at the center of his university teaching, which he first gave an account of in the summer of 1974 with an exhibition at the academy. Ten students took part in the exhibition, which "revealed the change in perception and training intentions that has recently taken place" ( Wolfgang Kermer ). The colored glass became the topic, not only as a given material, but in the process of being transformed into a meditative background. Stockhausen never abandoned or denied figurative representation or representationalism. His drawings, etchings, woodcuts and pastels show it. In terms of content, his pictures often incorporate biblical stories and motifs from ancient mythology. His pictures want to translate important content into a generally understandable language.

He not only revived old manual techniques for processing flat glass, but also developed new, previously unusual techniques for glass pictures. With the installation of a studio glass oven towards the end of his activity at the Stuttgart Academy, a long-cherished wish came true. Under his influence, “ Stuttgarter Glas ” has become an internationally recognized term. After his retirement in 1986, he took on teaching positions at the Pilchuck Glass School in Pilchuck / Washington (USA) in 1986 and 1990 , and in 1987 a teaching position in Edinburgh / Scotland .

Von Stockhausen maintained his studio at Waldenburg Castle , where he often showed exhibitions of his works to the public.

Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen had a son and a daughter in his first marriage with the painter Margarethe Lahusen, and in his second marriage with the painter Ada Isensee two sons.

Works (selection)

Art in public space

• Town hall of Schorndorf : Natural stone mosaic The women of Schorndorf (1965, photo at Wikimedia Commons , photo of the town hall with the mosaic )

Glass windows in secular buildings

• Gymnasium Allee in Hamburg-Altona-Nord : Glass window A tree for the avenue (2005 or 2006)

Church window

Northern Germany

• Marienkirche in Flensburg : choir window (1960)
• St. Katharinen in Hamburg : three choir windows (1955–1957), including Wachet, the voice calls us (1956) and the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1957)
• Christian church in Hamburg-Ottensen : tower window with the themes of resurrection and angels
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Grace to the Holy Cross in Hanover-Mittelfeld (consecrated in 1962): the large rosette of Christ in the east wall above the altar, in the upper storeys 12 windows with the gates to the heavenly Jerusalem and two angel windows , in the southern part of the crossing the large window of the Cloud of witnesses
• Jakobikirche in Kiel : six transept windows (1968 or 1986)
• Evangelical Maria Magdalenen Church in Kiel- Elmschenhagen : colored windows in the transverse arms (1982)
• Evangelical Church of Thanks in Kiel-Holtenau : choir window (1996)

East Germany

• Evangelical Martin Luther Memorial Church in Berlin-Mariendorf : nine glass windows in the chancel, the creed (1970)
• Evangelical St. Thomas Church in Leipzig: Thomas Window (2000) in the choir

North Rhine-Westphalia

• Resurrection Church in Bad Oeynhausen : Choir window
• St. Michael im Kampe in Detmold- Hiddesen : a glass window, Archangel Michael
• Evangelical town church St. Reinoldi in Dortmund : 22 glass windows (1967/68). One of the windows bears the artist's signature and date as well as the dedication to the theologian Karl Barth .
• Christ Church Marl- Drewer : 13 windows (1965)
• Evangelical Church of St. Maria zur Wiese (Wiesenkirche) in Soest : 16 glass windows (2001-2003) as well as addition of 3 old windows (1965, 1970, date not given)

Hesse

• Evangelical town church in Bad Hersfeld : five choir windows and Magnificat windows above the south pore (2006)
• Community hall of the Protestant parish Friedewald
• Martinskirche in Kassel : five choir windows (1958)
• Evangelical Church in Lautenhausen
• Evangelical Church in Werkel near Fritzlar : Christ the World Judge (1957)
• Collegiate Church in Wetter : choir window (1962–1966)
• Evangelical town church in Wolfhagen : three choir windows (1961)

Rhineland-Palatinate

• Liebfrauenkirche in Koblenz

Baden-Württemberg

• Church of the Resurrection in Backnang -Waldrems
• Evangelical parish church of St. Dionysius in Böblingen : Choir window
• Evangelical town church in Geislingen (1975/76)
• Constance cathedral : stained glass window of the Welserkapelle (1988)
• Evangelical town church in Pforzheim : window of the weekday church
• City church St. Blasius in Plochingen
• Evangelical town church in Ravensburg : the choir windows and the west window of the central nave (1965/66)
• Evangelical collegiate church in Stuttgart : three glass windows in the Our Father or weekday chapel ( Our Father window , Window of Hope and Stuttgart Window , 2001) and the Easter window in the organ room (1958)
• Evangelical St. Luke Church in Stuttgart : three choir windows (1977/78)
• Collegiate Church in Tübingen : four of the nave windows (1964)
• Ulm Minster : freedom window (1958) in the south aisle; three choir windows ( Baptism , Mercy , The Church in the New Testament , 1956); Completion of the medieval windows above the west portal (1963)
• Evangelical St. Gallus Church in Welzheim : Window of Temptation , Baptism Window , Last Supper Window and Window of Promise (1989 and 1992)
• Protestant churches in the districts of Wendlingen am Neckar : a total of eight windows from the 1950s to 1990s:
  • Eusebius Church in Wendlingen: choir window (1957 and 1962)
  • Jakobskirche in Wendlingen- Bodelshofen : four glass windows (1953, 1986, 1990, 1996)

Bavaria

• Evangelical Church of St. Michael in Fürth : seven glass windows in the choir and nave (1958, 1963, 1969, manufactured in the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt , Munich; for details see St. Michael )
• Catholic St. Johannes Church in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz: glass window (1992–1995, photos at Wikimedia Commons )
• Catholic Church Heilig Kreuz in Schaftlach : a glass window in the vestibule (1997)

Other church furnishings

painting

• Christianskirche in Hamburg-Ottensen : Altarpiece The Adoration of the Redeemed or The Song of Praise of the Redeemed (inserted in the baroque high altar in 1968, photo at Wikimedia Commons )
• Evangelical town church in Leonberg : Meditation images on the organ doors of the choir organ (1965): The three men in the furnace and the lamb in the midst of thorns or the lamb in the burning bush
• Evangelical parish church St. Peter in Oberholzheim : ceiling painting (1953/54)

Textile work

• Evangelical Martinskirche in Filderstadt -Sielmingen: tapestry tree of life (Revelation 22,2) (1973)

Others

Large parts of the artistic equipment of the following places of worship were also created in Stockhausen's studio:

• St. Katharinen in Braunschweig

Exhibitions (selection)

2009: Licht Sinn Raum , in the Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum in Schwäbisch Hall

Fonts

• Glass picture. Hirmer, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-7774-4190-2 .
• The glass picture in architecture. Hirmer, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7774-8860-7 .
• Window of the Stuttgart collegiate church. Markstein, Filderstadt 2004, ISBN 3-935129-19-X .
• Light and space. In: Erik Hornung, Andreas Schweizer (ed.): The wisdom of the snake. Contributions to the Eranos conferences in 2003 and 2004. Schwabe, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-7965-2151-7 .
• The collegiate church to Wetter and its stained glass. Hirmer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7774-3875-7 .

Awards

• 1980: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1988: Winner of the Württembergische Hypothekenbank Foundation for Art and Science
• 2000: Winner of the Esslingen Culture Prize
• 2002: Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg
• 2004: Honorary Senator of the State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
• 2005: Silver Brenz Medal from the Evangelical Church of Württemberg

literature

• Stuttgart encounters: the Wolfgang Kermer donation. Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, May 18 - June 24, 2005. [Ed .: Neunkircher Kulturgesellschaft gGmbH; Nicole Nix-Hauck. Catalog: Wolfgang Kermer ]
• Birgit Hahn-Woernle: The women's window by Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen in the Esslinger Frauenkirche. Bechtle, Esslingen am Neckar 2004, ISBN 3-7628-0574-1 .
• Frank Hofmann: “The word became flesh and lived among us.” The message of the Bible in the Stockhausen windows of the Wetter collegiate church. Evangelical Media Association, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89477-908-X .
• Wolfgang Kermer (Ed.): Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen - Light and Space: Articles, Lectures, Interviews. With a foreword by the editor and a laudation by Johannes Hewel. State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2004 (= contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Ed. By Wolfgang Kermer; 12th) ISBN 3-931485-66-8 .
• Wolfgang Kermer: Exhibitions by students [exhibition of the glass workshop at the academy]. In: Akademie-Mitteilungen 6 / State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart / For the period from April 1, 1974 to March 31, 1975 / State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Stuttgart May 1975, p. 56.
• Wolfgang Kermer [Hrsg.]: Work of the glass workshop. With a text from the editor. State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart 1974 (loose sheets in folder)
• Oskar Beyer: Church window by the painter Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen. 2nd ext. Ed. Friedrich Lometsch, Kassel 1960.

Web links

Commons : Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Beyer 1960, second page of the foreword.
2. ↑ Appointments or settings. In: Akademie-Mitteilungen 1. State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: for the period from October 1, 1971 to March 31, 1972. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer. State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, April 1972, p. 4.
3. ↑ Pushkin at Waldenburg Castle ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2016 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. , on Hohenloher Tageblatt , November 5, 2010; accessed on March 2, 2015.  
4. ↑ Biographical data. In: Wolfgang Kermer (Ed.): Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen - Light and Space: Articles, Lectures, Interviews. State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 2004, pp. 95–96.
5. ↑ The article Gymnasium Allee states: Lebensbaum (2006), the following source, however, Ein Baum für die Allee (2005): Art for public buildings - especially schools. In: kulturkarte.de. Schirmer Medienservice, 2014 (with illustration on the same page). 
6. ↑ Johannes Habich , Christoph Timm, Lutz Wilde a . a. (Editor): Hamburg - Schleswig-Holstein (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio Association [ed.]: Handbook of German Art Monuments ). 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 , p. 276 .
7. ↑ Johannes Habich , Christoph Timm, Lutz Wilde a . a. (Editor): Hamburg - Schleswig-Holstein (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio Association [ed.]: Handbook of German Art Monuments ). 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 , p. 22 .
8. ↑ Contradictory information on the dating: Johannes Habich , Christoph Timm, Lutz Wilde u. a. (Editor): Hamburg - Schleswig-Holstein (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio Association [ed.]: Handbook of German Art Monuments ). 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 , p. 410 . - Jakobikirche. In: lutherjakobi.de. Jacobi and Luther Community of Kiel 
9. ↑ Johannes Habich , Christoph Timm, Lutz Wilde a . a. (Editor): Hamburg - Schleswig-Holstein (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio Association [ed.]: Handbook of German Art Monuments ). 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 , p. 428 .
10. ↑ Johannes Habich , Christoph Timm, Lutz Wilde a . a. (Editor): Hamburg - Schleswig-Holstein (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio Association [ed.]: Handbook of German Art Monuments ). 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 , p. 430 .
11. ↑ St. Reinoldi Church. In: reinoldi-do.de. Evangelische Kirchengemeinde St. Reinoldi, Dortmund (with images, including signature and dedication).  - Dortmund, Evang. City Church of St. Reinoldi. In: glasmalerei-ev.net. Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting e. V. (with pictures). 
12. ↑ Soest, Evang. St. Maria zur Wiese Church. In: glasmalerei-ev.net. Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting e. V. (with pictures). 
13. ^ Gerhard Bott , Dieter Großmann, G. Ulrich Großmann , Erich Herzog : Hessen. Kunstdenkmäler (=  Reclams Art Guide Germany . Volume IV ). 5th edition. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-008466-0 , p. 297 . - Anneliese Pachali: Small church, great art: the church's glass window was designed by an internationally known artist. In: hna.de. Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine, August 29, 2011 . 
14. ↑ Anneliese Pachali: Small church, great art: the church's glass window was designed by an internationally known artist. In: hna.de. Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine, August 29, 2011 (with illustration). 
15. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Editor): Baden-Württemberg I. The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio Association [Hrsg.]: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 85 . - 71032 Böblingen: Protestant Dionysius Church (town church) (1419). In: kirchbau.de. Gunther Seibold, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Editor): Baden-Württemberg I. The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio Association [Hrsg.]: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 253 .
17. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Editor): Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio-Vereinigung [Hrsg.]: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 368 .
18. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Editor): Baden-Württemberg I. The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio Association [Hrsg.]: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 626 .
19. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Editor): Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio-Vereinigung [Hrsg.]: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 553 .
20. ↑ 70173 Stuttgart: Protestant collegiate church (approx. 1200). In: kirchbau.de. Gunther Seibold, 2018 (with illustrations). 
21. ↑ 70190 Stuttgart: Evangelical Lukaskirche (1899). In: kirchbau.de. Gunther Seibold, 2018 .  - Lukaskirche and meeting place. In: lukasgemeinde-stuttgart.de. Evangelical church community Stuttgart-Ost 
22. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Editor): Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio-Vereinigung [Hrsg.]: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 718 .
23. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Editor): Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio-Vereinigung [Hrsg.]: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 760, 762, 766 .
24. ↑ 73642 Welzheim: Evangelical Gallus Church (city church). In: kirchbau.de. Gunther Seibold, 2018 . 
25. ↑ Congregation celebrates its anniversary in a festive setting - memory of 50 years of church redesign (...). Report by the Wendlinger Zeitung, February 27, 2007. In: evk-wendlingen-neckar.de. Evangelical parish Wendlingen am Neckar  - 73240 Wendlingen am Neckar: Evangelical Eusebius Church (1488). In: kirchbau.de. Gunther Seibold, 2018 . 
26. ↑ 73240 Wendlingen am Neckar-Bodelshofen: Protestant Jakobskirche (1275). In: kirchbau.de. Gunther Seibold, 2018 .  - In 2003 the artist took part in a service to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Bodelshofen window. The newspaper report gives a couple of quotations from his address: “The right picture in a speechless time” - Festive service in the Jakobskirche in Bodelshofen: birthday party for an extraordinary church window. Report from the Wendlinger Zeitung, September 15, 2003. In: evk-wendlingen-neckar.de. Evangelical parish Wendlingen am Neckar 
27. ↑ Holy Cross - Our house of God in Schaftlach. In: erzbistum-muenchen.de. Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, Parish Association Waakirchen-Schaftlach, 2020 (with a link to a picture). 
28. ↑ Johannes Habich , Christoph Timm, Lutz Wilde a . a. (Editor): Hamburg - Schleswig-Holstein (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio Association [ed.]: Handbook of German Art Monuments ). 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 , p. 116 .
29. ↑ 71229 Leonberg: Protestant city church (approx. 1300). In: kirchbau.de. Gunther Seibold, 2018 .  - Eugen Stöffler: City Church Leonberg . 1983, p. 22–23 ( ev-kirche-leonberg.de [PDF]). - Margot Dongus: Evangelical City Church Leonberg - short guide . 2014 ( ev-kirche-leonberg.de [PDF]).
30. ↑ Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Editor): Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio-Vereinigung [Hrsg.]: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 492 .
31. ^ Andreas Keller: Sielmingen, Martinskirche. In: kirchen-online.org. 2013 (with illustrations). 
32. ^ Hans-Gottfried von Stockhausen (leaflet); Invitation to the exhibition, 2009
33. ↑ Table of Contents