Hans König (sculptor)

Mosaic by Hans König in Oppau (Ludwigshafen), St. Martin's Church

Hans König (born December 23, 1913 in Bad Warmbrunn , Province of Silesia , † June 6, 2005 in Klingenberg am Main ) was a German sculptor .

König studied at the Werkkunstschule Berlin and the Kunstakademie Dresden. After the war and being a prisoner of war, he came to Trennfurt in 1945 , today a district of Klingenberg. There he was able to set up a studio with a kiln in the Albertwerke ceramics factory (today Klingenberg Dekoramik ). He worked with clay and created numerous mosaic works. In 1950 the Main-Echo called him the "only independent mosaic artist in West Germany". From 1952 to 1964 he was a lecturer at the master school for stone sculptors in Aschaffenburg . The initially representational mosaic works were later increasingly followed by abstract sculptures made of glass and metal.

Works (selection)

• Way of the Cross in the Church of St. Maria Magdalena in Trennfurt
• Way of the Cross in the Church of St. Kilian in Nilkheim ( Aschaffenburg )
• Mosaic on the front of the Church of St. Martin in Oppau ( Ludwigshafen )
• Mosaic mural in the reception building of the Farbwerke Hoechst , Frankfurt (destroyed when the building was demolished)
• Glass window and altar wall in the Sacred Heart Church in Eckenheim (Frankfurt)
• Altar wall in the Church of St. Josef in Marktheidenfeld 0
• Sculpture on Berliner Platz in Miltenberg

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  Glass wall, Eckenheim, Herz-Jesu-Kirche

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  Altar wall, Eckenheim, Herz-Jesu-Kirche

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Longings and life issues. Main-Echo, July 19, 2013, accessed December 1, 2018 . 
2. ^ In Memoriam Hans König. RC Miltenberg, July 26, 2013, accessed August 1, 2018 . 
3. ↑ New brochures about the work of the sculptor Hans König. Press service Ordinariat Würzburg, September 10, 2013, accessed on April 30, 2020 .