Heinz Mühlenbein (painter)

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Heinz Mühlenbein (also: Hans or Heinrich Mühlenbein ; born January 17, 1883 in Hanover ; † March 8, 1976 ) was a German artist, painter, restorer, art glass painter and founder . He lived and worked mainly in Hanover.

Life

At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , during the inauguration of the Ernst August monument on June 21, 1861 in the royal seat of Hanover, there was already a man named Mühlenbein who, according to the commemorative Ernst August Album, was one of the participants in the professional group of “Bricklayer and stone mason ” belonged to the parade held on the same day.

Heinz Mühlenbein was born in 1883 during the founding period of the German Empire and was a nephew of the glass painter Franz Lauterbach (1865–1933) in Hanover, with whom he trained in the art of glass painting.

Three stained glass windows in Art Nouveau ;
1920 for Hermann Rexhausen , replicas in the Hermannshof cultural monument in Völksen

After having worked in various workshops, Mühlenbein founded his “art glass painting” workshop in 1910 - also in Hanover. At times - for example for a church window from around 1912 for the church of the Seggebruch parish built by the architect August Kelpe - Mühlenbein worked with “F. Wenceslaus ”together.

At the German Werkbund exhibition organized by the Deutscher Werkbund in Cologne in 1914, a work by the sculptor Georg Herting in collaboration with the graphic artist Aenne Koken was on display in the main hall in the Hanover area , which was created by "Heinrich Mühlenbein", who was then based in Heinrichstrasse 61a in Hanover had been executed. Also in 1914, and also based on designs by the artist Aenne Koken, Mühlenbein made the artificial glazing in the stairwell of the new building built by the architect Karl Siebrecht on Podbielskistraße in Hanover for the baked goods manufacturer and biscuit manufacturer Bahlsen .

In the spring of 1933 Mühlenbein presented several exhibits of the deceased in the same year the artist Franz Lauterbach for the memorial exhibition on the Order Castle of the Teutonic Order, the Marienburg available that Mühlenbein following on 25 and 26 April 1933 the Lauterbach- discount charging thereto: Only in March 2017, for example, Lauterbach's “Hector Window” and his “Leonidas Window” were rediscovered in the magazine of the Lower Saxony State Museum .

From the mid-1930s, Franz Lauterbach's widow, Sophie (née Dävers; † June 3, 1940), who was also the owner of the house at Dieterichstrasse 2 in Hanover, rented out Lauterbach & Schröder's former workshop to Heinz Mühlenbein.

In 1956, the retired pastor Albert Hettling (1882–1967), who was active in the church of St. Nicolai in Lemgo , suggested that Franz Lauterbach's nephew Mühlenbein make church windows that were not made there by his nephew, “[...] the one who was using the process Uncle is familiar ”.

After Mühlenbein was still to be found in Dieterichsstrasse 2A in 1963 , he was honored on June 6, 1964 with the award of the Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of the glass windows created and restored by Mühlenbein in numerous churches in Lower Saxony.

Mühlenbein's “art glass painting” workshop was taken over by FO Schümann in 1967 - more than half a century after it was founded .

Works (if known)

Mühlenbein repaired the church window with Christ Carrying the Cross (left) created in 1908 by Henning & Andres for the Marktkirche in Hanover
  • around 1912, with “F. Wenzel ”: Church windows for the Seggebruch parish
  • 1920: Three glass pictures with figures in Art Nouveau style , formerly used in the windows of the hall of the large house of the manufacturer Hermann Rexhausen in Völksen . After the pictures were considered lost for a long time, they were rediscovered in the 21st century among the descendants of Rexhausen at Celler Straße 68 in Hanover, then printed directly on glass using a photographic reproduction process and then as a reproduction again in the windows of the Great House of what is today Cultural monument Hermannshof Völksen used.
  • 1951: Of the four medieval Passion windows from 1498 in the St. Sixti Church in Northeim restored by the Hanover company Henning & Andres in 1898 , the Northeim Cross Carrying Window was used by the same company in 1908 as a template for a redesign of the same motif in the Hanover market church . For a long time, the Hanoverian window was mistakenly considered to be a window from the Middle Ages that was simply supplemented by the specialists - especially since the signature of Henning & Andres in the left lane is difficult to decipher with the words "Resta [...] & completes Anno Dom . 190 ... by Henning & Andres ”. The plant, which was partially destroyed during the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War in 1943, was repaired by Heinz Mühlenbein in 1951.
  • 1954: After the Second World War and the salvage of the windows in 1954 by Mühlenbein, the two works Karl the Great and King Arthur on the south wall of the court arbor in Lüneburg town hall, created around 1410 as glass windows, received "[...] minor repairs".
  • 1957: In the church of the Amelungsborn monastery , Mühlenbein placed the former 96 panes of glass (without counting the tracery gable), of which only fragments remained after an air raid on April 8, 1945, in the three east-facing windows of the north Longhouse side aisle to form the most sensible units possible, with a window with an inscription fragment preserved.
  • 1960: Mühlenbein made several of the numerous church windows in the St. Marien garden church in Hanover based on designs by the artist Ruth Margraf :
    • Three church windows in the choir with the illustration of Jesus' walk on the sea , The merciful father and the prodigal son as well as the good Samaritan ;
    • the rose above the north portal, which shows scenes from the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem

literature

  • in the magazine Heimatland. Journal for local history, nature conservation, cultural care , published three articles by and about Heinz Mühlenbein until 1976:
    • 1970, issue 2, p. 67ff .: H. Mühlenbein: Restoration of destroyed stained glass windows in Hanover
    • 1973, Issue 2, p. 57: Heinz Mühlenbein, old master of glass painting in Hanover, was 90 years old
    • 1976, Issue 3, p. 158: On March 8th, 1976, the glass painter Heinz Mühlenbein, Hanover, died
  • Hans Ulrich Strümpel: Heinrich Mühlenbein , in the: St. Marien Garden Church, Hanover. History, people, pictures , Berlin: Culturcon medien, 2016, ISBN 978-3-944068-56-5 and ISBN 3-944068-56-4 , pp. 134-137

Archival material

Archival material from and about Heinz Mühlenbein can be found, for example

Web links

Commons : Heinz Mühlenbein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ulrich Knapp (ed.), Jochen Bepler et al. : Restauratio Ecclesiae. The Diocese of Hildesheim in the 19th century (= Dommuseum Hildesheim: Catalogs of the Dom-Museum Hildesheim , Vol. 4), Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 2000, ISBN 978-3-8067-8514-2 and ISBN 3-8067-8514-7 , P. 185; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b o.V. : Archive for family research and all related areas , vol. 32–33, Görlitz: Verlag für family research and heraldry, CA Starke, 1966, p. 624; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b Compare the official catalog of the German Werkbund exhibition. Cöln 1914, May - October , ed. from D. Exhibition management, facsimile edition true to the original catalog from 1914, occasionally the exhibition Westkunst in Cologne 1981 , Cologne: Wienand Verlag, 1981, p. 65; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Hans Ulrich Strümpel: Heinrich Mühlenbein , in which: St. Marien Garden Church Hanover. History, people, pictures , Berlin: Culturcon medien, 2016, ISBN 978-3-944068-56-5 and ISBN 3-944068-56-4 , pp. 134-137
  5. ↑ a b Werner Krämer: Table of contents of the Heimatbund magazine "Heimatland" / done: Issue March 1950 to Issue 2.2003 , Hanover, 2003; as Word document A63HEI2003.DOC on heimatbund-niedersachsen.de , last accessed on May 30, 2017
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Harald Storz : The glass painter Franz Lauterbach and his workshop , in Christian Scholl , Harald Storz: Visibly evangelical. The glass windows of the Jakobikirche in Göttingen from 1900/1901 and the Hanoverian glass painting workshops Henning & Andres and Lauterbach & Schröder. Catalog for the exhibition “Visibly evangelical” in the Jacobikirche in Göttingen from March 27 to June 23, 2017. Göttingen University Press, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-86395-302-7 ; Pp. 75-98; as a PDF document also at Wikimedia Commons
  7. ↑ a b c Christel Mosel : Handicrafts in transition. Art Nouveau and Twenties (= picture catalogs of the Kestner Museum Hannover , vol. 11), ed. from the Kestner Museum , Hanover: Kestner Museum, 1971, p. 28; Preview over google books
  8. ↑ top v .: Ernst-August-Album , p. 137; Digitized via Google books
  9. ↑ Georg Dehio (original), Gerd Weiss (arr.), Karl Eichwalder et al. (Mitarb.): Handbook of German Art Monuments : Bremen Lower Saxony , revised, greatly expanded edition, Berlin; Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1992, ISBN 978-3-422-03022-0 , p. 1199; Preview over google books
  10. ↑ a b Burkhard Peter: Personal encounter with God (as PDF document), in the community letter of the Seggebruch parish , issue 4 from 2012, p. 2
  11. ↑ Alexander Koch (Hrsg., Red.): German art and decoration. Illustrated monthly booklets for modern apartment art, painting, sculpture, architecture, gardens, artistic women's work , Vol. 33, Darmstadt: Verlagsanstalt Alexander Koch, 1914, p. 223; Preview over google books
  12. ^ Walter Kaupert : Internationales Kunst Adressbuch - International Directory of Arts - Annuarire International des Beaux Arts - Anuario Internacional de las Artes , Berlin: Deutsche Zentraldruckerei Verlag, 1963, p. 700
  13. ↑ oV : Fine arts, coffee table art and encounters / opening of the exhibition on the page hermannshof.de [undated], last accessed on May 29, 2017
  14. ↑ Cornelia Aman et al .: Glass paintings from eight centuries. Masterpieces in Germany, Austria and Switzerland - their endangerment and preservation , ed. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In cooperation with the Austrian Federal Monuments Office Vienna and the Swiss Center for Research and Information on Glass Painting in Romont, Leipzig: Ed. Leipzig, 1997, ISBN 978-3-361-00479-5 and ISBN 3-361-00479-9 , p. 60 and others; Preview over google books
  15. ↑ Jörg H. Lampe, Meike Willing: DI 83, Landkreis Holzminden, No. 7 (†) on the inschriften.net page of the Deutsche Insschriften Online
  16. ↑ a b o. V .: Church window on the page gartenkirche.de [ undated ], last accessed on May 30, 2017
  17. ↑ Compare the information in the archive, last accessed on May 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Mühlenbein, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mühlenbein, Heinrich; Mühlenbein, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and art glass painter as well as restorer
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1976