Hilda Sandtner

Hilda Sandtner (born June 27, 1919 in Türkheim ; † July 11, 2006 in Augsburg ) was a German draftsman , textile artist , glass painter and art professor .

Life

Hilda Sandtner was born as the twelfth and last child of an elementary school teacher in Türkheim. After her father changed job, she grew up in Steinheim an der Donau . Her family was poor and could not finance her studies. Like some of her sisters before, she completed an education as a primary school teacher at the teacher training institute in Lauingen . She found the following activity as a teacher unsatisfactory, as she was unable to bring in her artistic talent sufficiently, nor could she work on her own artistic development. Almost penniless, she went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1947 . It was there that Josef Oberberger soon recognized her talent and let her take part in his major orders as a master class student.

After completing her studies, she initially worked as an art teacher in Weiden and as a porcelain painter for the Rosenthal company in Upper Palatinate . In 1959 she switched to teaching at the Augsburg University of Education , where she built up the art education department. Creativity in art was the top priority of her educational goal. After the institute was integrated into the newly founded university, she took over as head of the chair for art education in 1976 until her retirement in 1984.

In May 1989 she was awarded the 1st Class Cross of Merit .

Hilda Sandtner died a few days after reaching the age of 87 on July 11, 2006 in Augsburg.

Act

For a while, Sandtner lived in the small Swabian community of Waldkirch , where she restored the frescoes in the parish church of the Virgin Mary . A drawing was made there in the 1940s showing an apple tree growing out of the rectory.

She designed large-format, colorful windows and walls with glass mosaics for numerous churches in the Augsburg area and in Swabia . Impressive examples of her work can be seen in the Catholic parish church of St. Elisabeth in Augsburg-Lechhausen , where Sandtner has a multi-part glass mosaic covering the entire choir wall with scenes from the life of the church patroness Elisabeth of Thuringia as well as two round windows under the gallery and a high arched window behind the organ .

Hilda Sandtner learned the art of parament embroidery in the workshop of Wettenhausen Abbey while she was still at the academy . This resulted in the artist's great affinity for designing with textile materials. A focus of her teaching was therefore the textile area, which decisively shaped the profile of the chair. Her works include woven wall hangings , tie-dyed landscapes, screens , priestly robes and lent cloths . One of her best-known textile designs is the approx. 6 m high and approx. 2.6 m wide tapestry “The Heavenly Jerusalem”, which hangs in the side aisle of the Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Waldkirchen , Lower Bavaria .

Of her 23 scientific publications, 13 are devoted to handling textile materials.

Sandtner had a comprehensive private collection of textiles and art objects of all kinds, which she transferred to the city of Mindelheim in 1984 after a foundation was established . The Sandtner collection formed the basis of the Mindelheim Textile Museum , which was opened in 1986 on the second floor of the former Jesuit college in Mindelheim , which was converted into a museum building and thus made accessible to the public. In July 2009, a memorial plaque for the donor was unveiled at the entrance to the textile museum .

On the occasion of her 100th birthday, the Mindelheim museums showed Hilda Sandtner's great artistic spectrum in a three-month special exhibition entitled “Hilda!” In summer 2019.

Awards and honors

Federal Cross of Merit 1st class
Hilda-Sandtner-Strasse in Stadtbergen
Hilda-Sandtner-Weg in Mindelheim

Literature (selection)

Erich Hofgärtner, Ignaz Sandtner: Hilda Sandtner: The draftsman and glass painter . Rudolf Wittmann, Augsburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-9806201-2-3 .
Unconditional in their conception of artistic work . Gertrud Roth-Bojadzhiev about Hilda Sandtner. In: The Senate of the University of Augsburg (ed.): UniPress . Journal of the University of Augsburg. No. 1 , January 2004, ISSN 0937-6496 , p. 44–46 ( online [PDF]).
Ludwig Gschwind: The Lenten veil in the parish and pilgrimage church Hl. Kreuz Mindelzell: "Greetings, O Holy Cross". Designed by Hilda Sandtner . Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-922-4 .
Ludwig Gschwind: The Lenten veil in the parish church of St. Vitus Balzhausen: "The spiritual works of mercy". Designed by Hilda Sandtner . Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-924-8 .

Web links

Literature by and about Hilda Sandtner in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Hilda Sandtner in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Conveys ^asense of art and handicrafts. Kurierverlag, July 16, 2009, accessed February 25, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hilda Sandtner on the Gempfinger Pfarrhof website, accessed on February 20, 2020.
^ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on May 2, 1989 . In: Federal Minister of Justice (Ed.): Federal Gazette . No. 92 , May 19, 1989, ISSN 0344-7634 , p. 2453 ( online [PDF]).
↑ Wolfgang Kahler: Don Camillo, a terror victim and apples from the rectory. In: Günzburger Zeitung . November 27, 2017, accessed February 23, 2020 .
↑ Monika Soffner-Loibl: Augsburg-Lechhausen Parish Church of St. Elisabeth . Ed .: Catholic Parish Office St. Elisabeth. Kunstverlag PEDA, Passau 2016, ISBN 978-3-89643-971-0 , p. 13 ff .
↑ Hilda Sandtner: tapestry the heavenly Jerusalem. In: Art in Lower Bavaria. District of Lower Bavaria, accessed on February 25, 2020 (with illustration).
↑ On the 100th birthday. She was way ahead of her time . In: Diocese of Augsburg (ed.): Catholic Sunday newspaper . No. 25 , 22 June 2019, p. 33 ( online [PDF] with images of their works).

personal data
SURNAME	Sandtner, Hilda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German textile and glass artist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Türkheim
DATE OF DEATH	July 11, 2006
Place of death	augsburg

[Kurier-1] Conveys ^asense of art and handicrafts. Kurierverlag, July 16, 2009, accessed February 25, 2020 .

[Pfarrhof-2] Hilda Sandtner on the Gempfinger Pfarrhof website, accessed on February 20, 2020.

[3] Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on May 2, 1989 . In: Federal Minister of Justice (Ed.): Federal Gazette . No. 92 , May 19, 1989, ISSN 0344-7634 , p. 2453 ( online [PDF]).

[4] Wolfgang Kahler: Don Camillo, a terror victim and apples from the rectory. In: Günzburger Zeitung . November 27, 2017, accessed February 23, 2020 .

[5] Monika Soffner-Loibl: Augsburg-Lechhausen Parish Church of St. Elisabeth . Ed .: Catholic Parish Office St. Elisabeth. Kunstverlag PEDA, Passau 2016, ISBN 978-3-89643-971-0 , p. 13 ff .

[6] Hilda Sandtner: tapestry the heavenly Jerusalem. In: Art in Lower Bavaria. District of Lower Bavaria, accessed on February 25, 2020 (with illustration).

[7] On the 100th birthday. She was way ahead of her time . In: Diocese of Augsburg (ed.): Catholic Sunday newspaper . No. 25 , 22 June 2019, p. 33 ( online [PDF] with images of their works).