Hubert Deininger

Hubert Deininger (born September 4, 1928 in Ulm ; † June 28, 2008 ibid) was a German master glassmaker and glass painter.

Hubert Deininger 2002

Life

Hubert Deininger completed his training in his father's company in Zeitblomstraße in Ulm, then in Braunschweig up to the master's examination. In 1951 he returned to Ulm and worked in the Deininger & Sohn company. In 1951 he married Anne Braner, with whom he had five daughters. In 1954 he founded his own lead glass window workshop in Ulm, Wilhelmstrasse 18.

The main focus of his work was the collaboration with artists in the production and design of lead glass windows for churches and other sacred buildings. This gave it a supra-regional importance. The old-antique glasses were consistently obtained from one of the few remaining glassworks in Germany, the Lambert works in Waldsassen. Hubert Deininger created a total of over 200 windows, mostly in the area between Ulm and Lake Constance, but also in northern and central Germany and in France (Paris and Fessevillers ).

Hubert Deininger combined traditional craftsmanship with the aesthetic principles of the Bauhaus. Craftsmanship and artistic aesthetics of the 20th century enter into a liaison that is only noticed by connoisseurs who cannot immediately catch the layperson's eye. There is nothing spectacular about his artistic craft, everything is given attention to the mostly religious subject. The same applies to the painters - Köder, Wachter and Geyer - with whom he often worked. That is what is special, the sustainability that makes his work so special. Deininger never looked for the loud and excessive loudness of the effect. His work is focused on silence and devotion in the religious-meditative space.

One of his first commissions was the creation of a stained glass window cross with Wilhelm Geyer in St. Michael zu den Wengen (Ulm) , towards the end of his career he made the several meter high front windows and the rose window in the same church together with Wilhelm Geyer's son Hermann Geyer . In addition to the numerous windows that Hubert Deininger created with Wilhelm Geyer, Emil Wachter , Hermann Geyer and Sieger Köder , some windows were also designed and manufactured by himself (Fessevillers, Ulm, Munich-Obermenzing, Gauting, Thalfingen).

Hubert Deininger died on June 28, 2008 after a long illness in the hospital of the University of Ulm. He found his final resting place in the Ulm cemetery.

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SURNAME	Deininger, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German master glassmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	September 4, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ulm
DATE OF DEATH	June 28, 2008
Place of death	Ulm