Harry MacLean
Harry MacLean also McLean or Mac Lean (born March 16, 1908 in Berlin ; † January 3, 1994 in Heidelberg ) was a German painter , sculptor , sgraffito , glass and bell ornament artist. He created numerous works, mainly for church clients.
Life
Harry MacLean was the son of the architect Lauchlan (IV.) McL, * March 4, 1873 in Karlsmark, † April 28, 1952 in Berlin, and of Katharina McL, * December 12, 1875 in Berlin, † July 28, 1957 ibid. , born Schellbach. His great-grandfather was Lauchlan (II.) McL .
He studied from 1929 to 1938 at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts and at the resulting University of Fine Arts in Berlin; There he learned the basics of painting from Adolf Strübe , whose master class he was in 1937/38. In 1934, at the age of 26, MacLean received a teaching position at the vocational school of the Lette Association , which he held until he was called up for military service in 1942. During the World War he was used as a war correspondent in France and Norway. After a short imprisonment, he came to Heidelberg at the end of 1945 as an employee of the building works of the Heiliggeistkirche , where he settled and lived until his death. In his work, he naturally had close contact with church architects such as Otto Bartning , Hermann Hampe (head of the building department of the Evangelical Church in Baden) and Rudolf Steinbach (office community Hampe and Steinbach). From 1955 to 1961 MacLean sat on the advisory board of the Baden-Baden State Art Gallery . From 1990 to 1994 he was sponsored by the Deutsche Künstlerhilfe of the Federal President's Office, and in 1991 he received the Heidelberg Willibald Kramm Prize.
In addition to paintings and sculptures, his oeuvre includes, in particular, church windows , sacred utensils and bell decorations. In collaboration with the Heidelberg bell founder Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, he renewed the art of decorating bells. Around 1000 bells were decorated by him, including specimens in the Strasbourg cathedral (Regina Pacis bell), in the Frankfurt Paulskirche , in the Freiburg cathedral , in the Christ-König-Kirche in Eppelheim , at the cathedral to Eichstätt (Franz-Xaver-Glocke in the north tower, 1975) but also in Uganda , Windhoek , Chicago and Barcelona .
His best-known works are the ceiling painting in the central nave of the Heidelberg Heiliggeist Church and the jewelry for the civic bell at the Frankfurt Paulskirche (one of the largest bells made in Germany after the Second World War; apart from an inscription, it carries a picture book with events in German history 1848 to 1949).
Harry MacLean was married twice, his first marriage to Pauline MacLean , b. Caspar and in the second marriage with Gisela MacLean, geb. Wittich. He left two sons. His artistic estate is kept in the regional church archive in Karlsruhe .
Works (selection)
- Heidelberg, Heiliggeistkirche (Protestant): restoration and partial addition of the ceiling painting in the central nave, 1950s
- Heidelberg, Church of the Redeemer (old Catholic): design of the entrance portal, bronze cross, stained glass windows and tabernacle, 1961/62
- Frankfurt am Main , Paulskirche (profane since 1948): ornamentation of the citizen bell, cast in 1987
- Konstanz- Litzelstetten , Church of the Resurrection (Protestant), 1969/70
- Reichenau , heiliggeistkirche (Protestant): stained glass windows, entrance and part of the artistic interior (Altar wooden crucifix and other principle Alien and each of bronze , the gallery balustrade, the banister to the gallery and the radiator covers), in the early 1960s
- Wollmatingen , Christ Church (Protestant): choir window (the others are by the Karlsruhe glass painter Adolf Grosskopf )
- Baden-Baden , Spitalkirche (old Catholic): doors made of tombac (draft, manufactured by Hayno Focken ), mid-1960s, stained glass windows, tabernacle, both 1950s
- Eppelheim , Pauluskirche (Protestant): three stained glass windows: round window above the altar ("Jesus, the good shepherd"), round west window ("outpouring of the Holy Spirit") and "Michael window", 1953; In addition, the church door, bells and two round windows (“Creation”, “Feeding in the Desert”) at the parish hall built in the early 1990s
- Eppelheim, Christkönigkirche (Roman Catholic): bell decoration, around 1976
- Eppelheim, City Hall : Glass mosaic "Flute Player" in the foyer of the Citizens' Hall (gift from the MacLean family; Gisela MacLean lives in the village)
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Friedenskirche : Altarpiece (glass mosaic based on the Golgotha altar fresco by Max Slevogt which was destroyed in an air raid in 1944 ), 1957; also decoration of the six bells
- Essen , Alt-Katholische Friedenskirche (old Catholic): redesign of the four large windows by Jan Thorn Prikker, which were badly damaged in the Second World War (motif: four evangelists), 1963
- Freiburg im Breisgau , New Ludwig Church (Protestant): glass wall, 1950s (image program based on Isaiah 40:31)
- Freiburg im Breisgau, Heilig-Geist-Kirche (in the university hospital ): draft of the mosaic on the baptismal font, 1953
- Saarbrücken- St. Johann : four glass walls of the Christ Church (Protestant) on Rotenbühl , inauguration in 1959
- Offenburg , city church (Protestant): main portal (draft, executed in the early 1960s by Hayno Focken), memorial window for the victims of the world wars, memorial box (1962) with field post letters from young Offenburg citizens from the Second World War
- Offenburg, confessional chapel of the old Capuchin monastery: design of the three stained-glass church of Christ (Saarbrücken), 1967
- Lampertheim , cathedral church (Protestant St. Luke parish): design of the choir window, 1956 (executed by P. Meysen glass painting workshop, Heidelberg)
- Worms , Magnuskirche : two choir windows (west choir: "Christ Pantocrator", east choir: "Christ risen above the burning Worms"), 1952/53
- Schönbrunn in Baden-Württemberg, natural stone mosaic behind the altar of the Protestant Jesus Christ Church on the mountain of Allemühl , 1958
- Hamburg-Eilbek , Friedenskirche (Protestant): stained glass window (1960), tapestry (design, execution 1982 R. Rottmann)
- Glue -St. Ilgen, Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Protestant): stained glass window, 1968
- Karlsruhe , St. Stephan (Roman Catholic): ornamentation of the Marienglocke (1951) and the Stephansglocke (1966); the latter was the largest church bell in Baden-Württemberg until 2004
- Hamburg , House of the Patriotic Society : mosaic above the staircase to the hall floor, 1961
- Schwanau -Ottenheim, Michaelskirche (Protestant): two choir windows (Archangel Michael fighting the dragon; middle of the south side: angel envelops the souls of those who died and were missing in wars, four apocalyptic horsemen), design and execution, end of the 1940s
- Weinheim- Hohensachsen , Evangelical Church: four stained glass windows in the chancel (motifs: Ten Commandments, Creed, Baptism, Last Supper, Our Father), end of the 1950s
- Weil am Rhein , Johanneskirche (Protestant): stained glass window (on one side as a skylight; motif: communion bread and a cross surrounded by planetary orbits), mid-1950s
- Östringen , St. Cäcilia (Roman Catholic): Decorative five new bells from the FW Schilling foundry, 1966
- Ketsch , Evangelical Church: choir window, 1956
- Strasbourg , Strasbourg Cathedral (Liebfrauenmünster, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg) (Roman Catholic): ornamentation of the "Regina Pacis" bell of Mary, 1975
literature
- Mac-Lean, Harry . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 288 .
- Marion Fleischer: The stained glass of Harry Mc Lean. Self-published, Weinheim 1996, at the same time: Master's thesis at Heidelberg University (with Peter Anselm Riedl ), 1996
- Gisela MacLean (compilation): Catalog raisonné Harry MacLean. 2000; 20 sheets, available in the regional church library, Karlsruhe.
Web links
- Stained glass window of the Pauluskirche Eppelheim by Harry MacLean
- Bell decorating the Franz Xaver bell in the north tower of Eichstätt Cathedral
- Choir windows of the cathedral Lampertheim: Christmas window , Easter window , Good Friday Window
- Information on the hospital church in Baden-Baden with pictures in Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical note , Federal Archives Koblenz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | MacLean, Harry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McLean, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1994 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |