Hermann Gottfried

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Hermann Gottfried (born January 30, 1929 in Düren , † April 2, 2015 in Neuwied ) was a German glass painter .

Life

Hermann Gottfried attended the elementary school in Düren. He was a student of the graphic artist K. Gerbeth and the painter W. Recker. He trained as a carpet draftsman and became a patron at the Anker carpet factory in Düren . In 1953 he began with his first glass painting work, in 1963 with fresco and secco paintings in the church. His field of work included free and applied painting as well as the design of church windows. He was best known for his work on the Strasbourg Cathedral . Hermann Gottfried lived and worked for a long time in Herkenrath , a district of Bergisch Gladbach . Since 2011 he lived in Bad Neuenahr .

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Stained glass window

Probably one of his earliest stained glass windows was created by Hermann Gottfried in 1958 as an Annunciation window (Annunciation to Abraham, Elisabeth, Maria) for St. Peter and Paul in Kleinbüllesheim . In Cologne his works are in the churches of Groß St. Martin and St. Aposteln and the four windows in St. Maria Magdalena and Lazarus in the Melaten cemetery . In the 1960s he created the stained glass windows in the Wahlscheider Evangelical St. Bartholomew Church on the mountain and the chapel of the old people's home there. Seven windows in the north aisle of the Romanesque church of St. Nikolaus (Cologne-Dünnwald) also date from this period . In Düsseldorf-Bilk he made the arched window from 1964 in the church of Alt St. Martin . In 1964 he created two choir and four aisle windows with Old Testament motifs in the Kreuzkirche in Wiedenest . In the Archdiocese of Paderborn he designed from 1973 to 1982 the windows for the Church of the Holy Cross in Arnsberg and 1982, the window in the "Hasenkamp" of the Paderborn Cathedral . From 1983 to 1988 he designed the large cycle of windows in St. Matthias Church in Berlin-Schöneberg . In Hamm , Westphalia , the artist designed the large transept windows (1994 Sermon on the Mount, 1995 Pentecost) of the Liebfrauenkirche, as well as a smaller round window in the choir (1992).

Coloring

Gottfried took on a choir painting in St. Norbert, Cologne-Dellbrück, in 1964 (Secret of the Apocalypse). In Cologne- Flittard he redesigned the St. Hubertus Church in 1976/1977 with large-scale wall paintings and glass windows, as well as the apse in the Catholic Church in Birkenau (Odenwald) . In 1983 he painted the apse and vault of the St. Stephanus Church in Leverkusen . In 1997 he painted a monumental forehead mural in the neo-baroque parish and monastery church of St. Anthony in the district of Holzhausen-Ohrbeck in Georgsmarienhütte .

Exhibitions

In 2004 his paintings, stained glass and designs were presented in a retrospective under the title Hermann Gottfried - Other Worlds in the German Glass Painting Museum in Linnich .

In 2011, Gottfried bequeathed stained glass and design boxes to the Foundation of the German Glass Painting Museum Linnich, which were exhibited together with other works from March 11 to April 29, 2012 in the German Glass Painting Museum.

literature

  • Ralf van Bühren : Art and Church in the 20th Century. The reception of the Second Vatican Council ( Council History , Series B: Investigations ). Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76388-4 , p. 615f.
  • Hans Leo Drewes : The windows in the "Hasenkamp" of Paderborn Cathedral. Bonifatius, Paderborn 1983, ISBN 3-87088-363-4 .
  • Festschrift 100 years of the Evangelical Retirement Home Wahlscheid.
  • H. Gottfried: The minster. Volume 21, 1968, p. 356.
  • Friedhelm Hofmann : The minster. Volume 35, 1982, pp. 1-18.
  • Friedhelm Hofmann: Contemporary depictions of the apocalypse motifs in church construction since 1945. Munich / Zurich 1982, pp. 214–248.
  • HH Hofstätter: New glass windows in Germany. In: The Minster. Volume 33, 1980, p. 211.
  • Iris Nestler (Ed.): Hermann Gottfried, Other Worlds. Catalog German Glass Painting Museum Linnich, Bönen 2004.
  • Lohmarer Heimatblätter. Issue 19, November 2005.
  • H. Schnell: The minster. Volume 14, 1961, p. 217.
  • E. Stephany: The minster. Volume 15, 1962, p. 414. [Fig .: Brühl, St. Margaretha (window in the transept) 210 × 730 from 1960]
  • E. Stephany: The minster. Volume 22, 1969, p. 14. [Fig .: Kirdorf, St. Willibrordus (75 m² west gable glazing) from 1967]
  • Heinrich Stiegemann : Old and New Art in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Volume 31/32, 1983/1984, p. 67. [Fig .: Paderborn, Dom (window in Hasenkamp) from 1982]
  • Wirtschaftsverband Bildender Künstler NRW eV District Association Bergisch Land (Hrsg.): Visual artists in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 2. Recklinghausen 1967, p. 83.

Web links

  • Hermann Gottfried on the website of the Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting e. V.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the parish of St. Stephanus
personal data
SURNAME Gottfried, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2015
Place of death Neuwied