Johann Klein (glass painter)

Johann Evangelist Klein (also: Johannes Klein ; * August 7, 1823 in Vienna ; † May 8, 1883 in Venice ) was an Austrian painter with a focus on church glass paintings and a university professor .

Life

Johann Evangelist Klein studied in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts , where Joseph von Führich was one of his teachers. In 1848 he participated as a member of the Academic Legion in the revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire . From 1854 he taught first as a drawing teacher at the secondary school in Schottenfeld . In the following years he devoted himself to the study of Gothic art and specialized in the designs for church glass windows and mosaic paintings. He created numerous cardboard boxes for church windows in Austria and Germany, including windows in Cologne Cathedral and St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.

Klein died shortly before the completion of the cardboard boxes for the tower window cycle of Cologne Cathedral on a trip to Venice.

Works and drafts (selection)

• 1858; Window of the town church in Kemoen ,
• 1858: 22 windows of the parish church St. Georg in Bocholt ,
• 1866: Votive window in Nancy Cathedral (donated by Emperor Franz Joseph I ),
• 1867: Window in the cathedral in Erfurt ,
• 1868–1871: Cardboard boxes for the paintings of St. Maria in the Capitol based on designs by August Essenwein ,
• 1869: seven windows in the votive chapel of the old cathedral in Linz,
• 1871: a window in St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava ,
• 1874: Window in St. Lamberti in Münster,
• 1874: five windows in St. Paulus Cathedral in Münster ,
• 1874–1875: several windows in St. Johann Baptist in Cologne,
• 1878: Window of the Marienchor in the parish church in Goch ,
• 1881: Choir window in Groß St. Martin in Cologne,
• 1881: individual windows in St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne,
• Vienna, individual windows in St. Stephen's Cathedral
• Mödling , window of the church
• Cologne, tower window cycle in Cologne Cathedral (only partially preserved, reconstructed 1994-2010)
• Illustrations for the Missale Romanum missal. Verlag Friedrich Pustet , Regensburg (from the 12th edition)

Portfolio

• Johann Klein, Carl Lind: Church art. Cartons for glass mosaic, panel painting etc. I. – III. Episode, Perles, Vienna 1880/84, ( urn : nbn: de: bvb: 22-dtl-0000003679 ).

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Klein, Johann (I.) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1864, p. 50 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Klein, Johann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 440 .
• Klein, Johann Ev .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 381.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short obituary: Johannes Klein †. , Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . May 26, 1883, p. 190, accessed December 18, 2012.
2. ↑ Ulrike Brinkmann: Cologne Cathedral. Retrieved October 22, 2019 .