Josef Raukamp

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Josef Raukamp (* 4. September 1881 Linnich ; † 12. February 1960 in Schlierbach ) was from the Rhineland -derived Austrian glass artist and entrepreneur .

Live and act

Raukamp learned glass painting in the large arts and crafts company Oidtmann in Linnich, where the 80 employees included draftsmen , cutters , painters , burners and lead makers . The entrepreneur Heinrich Oidtmann , although not a glass painter himself, was interested in the old technology, published three books on it, was concerned with improving and refining the technology and expanded his knowledge through numerous trips that brought him into contact with masterpieces of old glass painting.

Raukamp became acquainted with all branches of the company, but eventually trained as a draftsman and glass painter who had to apply the black solder drawing to the piece of glass. Around 1900 he stayed in Münster i. W. and completed his knowledge in evening classes. Afterwards he came to Linz to Schürer, where after his death in 1908 he took over the artistic direction of the Upper Austrian glass painting .

In 1915, Raukamp acquired the Upper Austrian stained glass workshop, founded in 1884, from the Großmann family in Linz . After returning from the First World War , a new start was achieved in 1919 through a collaboration with his brother Wilhelm Raukamp (* 1882), who ran a glass painting business in Berlin and came to Linz after the death of his wife.

The two brothers were among Matthias May's students at this time . They realized bold designs for churches in Holland, which also attracted the attention of local church experts. The first works in Upper Austria could be realized in Vöcklabruck, but the contrast to conventional works was so great that there was an express ban on orders to the workshop, which was only lifted after several discussions with the diocesan bishop Johannes Maria Gföllner . The connection to his brother remained intact when he entered the Cistercian monastery in Schlierbach in 1923 as Father Peter .

As a member of the artists' association MAERZ , Raukamp also participated in their exhibitions.

In the 1920s and 1930s, under the artistic influence of Raukamp, ​​designs by Robert Andersen , Karl Hauk , Wilhelm Kaufmann , Alfred Stifter and others were executed in Upper Austrian glass painting .

Together with his wife Josefa he worked on the conception of his residential and studio house on Martinsfeld between the castle and Martinskirche on the Linz Römerberg, which was built by Friedrich Gangl in 1931 according to plans by architect Josef Harwanek, Vienna.

During the Second World War, Raukamp was able to secure his glass supplies within the monastery walls from the bombing raids. In 1954 the monastery bought the stained glass, so that Raukamp, ​​who was childless, saw his life's work in suitable hands. Father Petrus took over the management of the workshop and together with Tecelin Kummer developed it into a center of sacred art.

Artists like Margret Bilger , Rudolf Kolbitsch , Lydia Roppolt , Josef Mikl , Hans Plank , Rudolf Szyszkowitz , Adolf A. Osterider , Franz Weiss , Erika Wolf , Sr. Basilia Gürth , Georg Meistermann and others worked together in the monastery workshop and created works that demanded beyond Austria.

Works

Stained glass window of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia, Arnreit parish church

Award

literature

  • Erika Kittel praised the life's work of the artist, who is known in Italy and Holland, in an article in the Linzer Volksblatt with the words: Church windows, glass prayers in wonderful colors. Linz 1946.
  • Alfred Stifter : Josef Raukamp on his 70th birthday. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 6, Issue 1, January to March 1952, Linz 1952, pp. 65–67, online (PDF) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum.
  • Wolfgang Sachsenhofer: Between Historicism & Modernism - Josef Raukamp and “Upper Austrian Glass Painting”. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Issue 3/4, Linz 2014, pp. 127–155, PDF on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at.
  • Wolfgang Sachsenhofer: The glass painter Josef Raukamp. An artist between historicism and modernism. Wagner Verlag, Linz 2018, ISBN 978-3903040-29-8 .

Web links

Commons : Josef Raukamp  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Villa Raukamp, ​​Römerstrasse 16, Innere Stadt, Linz. In: Web presence of the city of Linz queried on December 20, 2015.
  2. ^ History of the glass painting Stift Schlierbach. In: Web presence lead glazing ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. queried on December 20, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bleiverglasungen.at
personal data
SURNAME Raukamp, ​​Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian glass painter and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Linnich
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1960
Place of death Schlierbach