Hubert Distler

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Hubert Distler (born July 13, 1919 in Lindau ; † June 1, 2004 in Grafrath ) was a German painter and graphic artist . In 1998 Distler was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his life's work.

Life

Distler lived mainly in Grafrath near Munich . The first watercolors and drawings were created during the war . In 1942 he began studying with Franz Klemmer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, who taught church painting. In 1943 he was called up again and seriously wounded at Nikolayev's, he lost a leg.

After the end of the war, he continued his studies with Klemmer from 1947 to 1952.

In the mid-1950s he collaborated with well-known architects, he mainly designed church furnishings for them , but also created graphics and woodcuts . A particularly intensive collaboration resulted with the architects Franz Lichtblau , Olaf Andreas Gulbransson and Theo Steinhauser , who particularly valued his idiosyncratic, often highly abstract style of Christian symbolism.

His works include glass window designs , ceiling frescoes , crucifixes, and he also designed organ cases.

Works (selection)

  • Evangelical hospital chapel Ingolstadt : window, 1955 (now Evangelical Jakobuskirche Wettstetten)
  • Evangelical Johanneskirche Taufkirchen (Vils) : frescoes, 1956
  • Evang. Großwendern Church of the Resurrection : frescoes and textile altarpiece, 1957
  • Evangelical Academy Tutzing : Wall fresco in the auditorium (“rotunda”) of the academy with the title “Order of Chaos” (1959) and ceiling fresco in the palace chapel (1956)
  • Catholic Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche Augsburg : three windows
  • Evangelical Thomaskirche Augsburg: frescoes, altar paintings 1961
  • Evangelical Martinskirche Hamburg-Rahlstedt : Window, 1961
  • Evangelical-Lutheran Michaelskapelle (Dietramszell): altar rosette and wooden relief, 1961
  • Kulmbach Cross Church : Window, 1962
  • Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church Steinen (Baden) : Altar fresco, altar cross, glass window, 1962
  • Lukaskirche Kelheim (farmer's settlement): altar window 1962, church redesigned in 2016
  • Evangelical-Lutheran Christophorus Church Göttingen-Weende: chancel and gallery relief, altar window, 1964
  • Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Church Munich-Denning : Altar fresco and window, 1966
  • Evangelical-Lutheran Reconciliation Church Geretsried : wooden frieze, 1970
  • Emmauskirche München-Harlaching : painting of the church, 1970
  • Johanneskirche Bad Tölz : ceiling painting, 1970
  • Evangelical Thomaskirchsaal Aschaffenburg : altar, pulpit, cross, candlestick, altarpiece, 1971
  • Evangelical Martin Luther Church Penzberg : Interior design, 1977
  • Evangelical Lutheran Laurentius Church Unterringingen : Pictures on the gallery and pulpit, 1979
  • Evangelical Lutheran Our Father Church Munich-Oberföhring : Fresken, 1979
  • Kreuzkirche Munich-Schwabing : Design of the community hall, 1980
  • Evangelical St. Johanneskirche Ingolstadt: Altar and ceiling painting approx. 1980
  • Evangelical town church Bad Reichenhall : Altar fresco, 1981
  • Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church Bad Aibling : painting of the apse, 1982
  • St. Peter and Paul Augsburg : Window, 1985
  • Evangelical Michael Church Grafrath : Fries, 1987
  • Evangelical St. Laurentius Church in Fröhstockheim : painted wooden coffered ceiling
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer Mykolaiv (Russian: Николаев / Nikolajew): stained glass window "Resurrection of Christ from the dead"

literature

  • DG-Künstlerlexikon (booklets of the German Society for Christian Art), NF 2, 1995.
  • Das Münster , Journal for Christian Art, Issue 22, 1969, pp. 149–167
  • Susanna Partsch in: General Artist Lexicon (AKL) , Volume XXVIII, 2001.
  • Andreas Hildmann: The Protestant Johanneskirche in Bad Tölz . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish office Bad Tölz. Lindenberg 2005. ISBN 3-89870-233-2
  • Karin Berkemann : "The heavens change their stars". Encounters with modern worship rooms of the Hanoverian regional church , in: Heinrich Grosse et al. (Hg.): Church in moving times. Protests, reforms and conflicts in the Hanoverian regional church after 1968 , Hanover 2011, pp. 421–446
  • Peter Poscharsky: Churches by Olaf Andreas Gulbransson , Munich 1966

Web links

Commons : Hubert Distler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Hubert-Distler.de - Detailed information on Hubert Distler, works and exhibition directories

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Newsletter of the Academy, December 2016 with illustration
  2. ↑ Press release of the academy, January 22, 2016 and history of Schloss Tutzing
  3. ↑ Cf. Peter Themessl: Four is one too many. Kelheim gives up one of its four Protestant churches, in: Sonntagsblatt November 13, 2016, accessed: November 20, 2016. ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sonntagsblatt.de
personal data
SURNAME Distler, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindau
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2004
Place of death Grafrath (Munich)