Hubert Spierling

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Hubert Spierling (born July 6, 1925 in Bösperde near Menden (Sauerland) ; † April 28, 2018 in Krefeld - Kliedbruch ) was a German painter and glass painter . He is considered one of the most important representatives of glass painting in Germany after 1945.

Life

Hubert Spierling studied applied painting in 1941 at the Master School of German Crafts in Hamburg and in 1942 at the Master School of Design Crafts in Dortmund . Due to the war, he continued his studies in 1946 at the Werkkunstschule Düsseldorf , where he graduated in 1949. In 1949, as a master student of Gustav Fünders, he began a second degree in glass painting and mosaic at the Werkkunstschule in Krefeld , which he completed in 1954. In the same year he married his wife Paula and has lived freelance in Krefeld ever since .

In the course of the reconstruction and construction of numerous sacred buildings after the Second World War , he and other glass artists of his generation made a significant contribution to the international reputation of modern German glass painting . He worked with important church builders such as Hans Schilling , Rudolf Schwarz , Hans Schwippert and Emil Steffann .

The main focus of his way of working was the clear reference to the surrounding space, its color environment and its lighting , which was not captured as a frame but as a component of the work of art. Starting from international modernism , especially contemporary French art, and influenced by great glass painters such as Johan Thorn Prikker and Georg Meistermann , he developed his own abstract style. His work is characterized by a bold, objective atmosphere, in which a powerful design language made up of clod-like surface structures, differentiated colored surfaces and virtuoso lines through the lead rod is decisive.

In addition to glass painting , his oeuvre also includes free painting , wall painting , mosaic and textile art , which in turn expressed itself particularly in the design of paraments . From 1956 on, he regularly instructed the Benedictine nuns in the parament workshop of the Mariendonk Abbey in questions of artistic textile design.

Spierling created figurative and abstract stained glass windows . He began with figurative representations of saints , e.g. B. at St. Agnes in Hamm in 1953/54. Modern windows in the end of the choir depict Christ as Savior between Mary and John , surrounded by the twelve apostles in the windows on the right and left. His first independently commissioned work is the round window created in 1949 above the main portal of the Catholic Church of St. Elisabeth in Kirchhundem -Benolpe. Spierling gradually became more abstract, as can be seen in the 1957 Apocalypse in St. Liebfrauen in Dortmund .

In 1959/60 Spierling created a 24-meter-long circumferential and up to 2.20-meter-high ribbon of glass made of predominantly white, gray and blue panes for Germany's first transportable church , St. Hubertus in Krefeld , designed by the Viersen architect Heinz Döhmen . The building as a whole becomes a visible expression of the image of the church as “ God's tent among men”. In 1964 he took part in the glass artistic design of the Benedictine Abbey of Königsmünster in Meschede . In 1966 he designed the monumental concrete glass walls for the parish church of St. Kilian in Paderborn . In 1967 he designed two abstract high choir windows for the Maria Laach Abbey .

In 1973 he moved into a studio and residential building designed by Heinz Döhmen in the north of Krefeld . From 1979 to 1992 a biblical window cycle was carried out for St. Dionysius in Krefeld.

In 1986 he was third in the competition for the new glazing of the Paulskirche in Frankfurt after it was rebuilt by Rudolf Schwarz . In 1994 he designed three windows for the east choir of Limburg Cathedral . In 1996 a large arched window was made for the vestibule of Krefeld main station. The three choir windows designed in 2013 for the St. Cäcilia convent church in Krefeld-Hüls are a late work .

Spierling is buried in the forest cemetery in Krefeld-Verberg .

Works

Choir of St. Marien in Lünen

Awards

literature

  • Hans Joachim Albrecht, Art and Krefeld eV (ed.): Glass painter & light designer after 1945. Krefeld and the Lower Rhine. Krefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-9811973-1-0 .
  • Holger Brülls (ed.): Hubert Spierling: Painting + glass painting . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh , Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-77000-4 .
  • Holger Brülls: Contemporary glass painting in Germany / L'art contemporain du vitrail en Allemagne . Edited by Jean-François Lagier, Center international du Vitrail / Chartres, Chartres 2012, ISBN 978-2-908077-06-3 .
  • Holger Brülls: Shine lights. Contemporary art stained glass. Edited by the United Cathedral Founders of Merseburg and Naumburg and the Zeitz Collegiate Foundation. Small writings of the Association of Dom founders in Merseburg and Naumburg and the Zeitz Collegiate Foundation, Volume 14. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7319-0085-6 .
  • Holger Brülls, Hans-Michael Mingenbach: Heaven + Earth. Hubert Spierling's window of creation in the canteen of the Elisabeth-Gymnasium in Halle . Published by the Elisabeth-Gymnasium Halle, Halle ad Saale 2017.
  • Iris Nestler (ed.): Masterpieces of stained glass of the 20th century in the Rhineland. B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-87448-393-3 .
  • Erich Stephany , Adam C. Oellers , Ulf-Dietrich Korn u. a .: light. Glass color. Glass and stone work from the Rhenish workshops of Dr. Heinrich Oidtmann. M. Brimberg Verlag, Aachen 1982, ISBN 3-923773-00-5 .

Web links

Commons : Hubert Spierling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Mourning for the Master of Light. In: Rheinische Post , May 5, 2018. Retrieved May 5, 2018.
  2. ^ Art and Krefeld eV: Hubert Spierling in the alphabetical artist archive. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  3. Westdeutsche Zeitung: Renowned glass artist dies at the age of 92. Retrieved on August 18, 2018 .
  4. ^ Christian Krausch: Hubert Spierling - painting with glass. In: Culture in Krefeld. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  5. Westdeutsche Zeitung: Renowned glass artist dies at the age of 92. Retrieved on August 18, 2018 .
  6. ^ German glass painting museum Linnich: Hubert Spierling - painting and glass painting. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  7. House of silk culture: House of silk culture shows the priestly robes of Hubert Spierling. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  8. ^ Art and Krefeld eV: Hubert Spierling in the alphabetical list of artists. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  9. Living Stones-Living Church. 100 years of St. Elisabeth Benolpe. 1912 - 2012. Church and local events through the ages. OOuJ (Benolpe 2012), pp. 88-89.
  10. ^ Parish of St. Hubertus: tent church of St. Hubertus. In: Church in the Diocese of Aachen. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  11. ^ Art and Krefeld eV: Hubert Spierling in the alphabetical list of artists. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  12. ^ Hermann-Josef Cremer: New church windows for the St. Dionysius Church . In: Catholic Krefeld . tape 2 . Krefeld.
  13. ^ German Glass Painting Museum Linnich: Hubert Spierling biography. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  14. ^ Diocese of Limburg: The Limburg Cathedral. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  15. ^ Catholic parish of St. Cyriakus Krefeld-Hüls: St. Cäcilia convent church. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  16. Westdeutsche Zeitung: Hubert Spierling: Obituaries. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .