Heinrich Helmle

Heinrich Helmle (* 1829 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † 1909 there ) was a German glass painter .

Heinrich Helmle was a son of Lorenz Helmle (1783–1849), who had been a glass painter in Freiburg since 1822/23 . After the death of his father, he took over his workshop, initially with his brother Ferdinand (* 1826). His workshop used enamel paint on glass that did not match the quality of his father's workshop.

In 1856/57 he was involved, along with other glass painters, in the design of the window for the prayer room in the New Palace in Baden-Baden . Between 1863 and 1868 he created coats of arms for Munzingen Castle . In 1867 he created two windows for the Count's Chapel of the Freiburg Minster (today destroyed). Like his father, he worked on the restoration of the stained glass windows of the Freiburg Minster from 1866 onwards, but these were technically and artistically poorly executed. He made other windows based on designs by local artists Sebastian Lutz (1836–1898), Wilhelm Dürr (1815–1890) and Joseph Heinemann (1825–1901). The production of the workshop, however, was rather modest, which only changed after 1875 with the entry of Albert Merzweiler (1844–1906) as partner and renaming to Helmle & Merzweiler ; this company then also carried out qualitatively better work on the Freiburg cathedral windows as well as numerous other orders, in particular church windows.

In 1893 Heinrich Helmle suffered a stroke, which made it impossible for him to continue working. Albert Merzweiler took over the company entirely.

literature

• Daniel Parello: From Helmle to Geiges. A century of historicist glass painting in Freiburg . Stadtarchiv, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, ISBN 3-00-006521-0 , pp. 56–62. 111-122.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emigrated to Philadelphia in 1853, returned in 1857 and worked for his brother; Parello 2000, p. 111.