Joseph Ehrismann

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Joseph Ehrismann (born March 2, 1880 in Mutzig , † February 18, 1937 in Strasbourg ) was an important glass and art painter with major works in the Alsatian region.

Life

As a young man he took drawing and painting courses in Strasbourg at the decorative arts school there. His studies eventually led him to Zurich , Munich (student of Karl Raupp ) and Paris . While he successfully devoted himself to landscape painting, he became interested in glass painting at an early stage and he managed to specialize in it. He also dreamed of helping this - once so famous - Alsatian art regain its fame.

With this goal in mind, he researched and obtained information, both in terms of technology and the history of this art form. "I had the great desire to revive the original techniques that made our medieval glass art famous and to give them new honors" (this and the following quote from an article about him in the magazine REVUE DU VRAI ET DU BEAU from 10. May 1923). In order to achieve this goal, he oriented himself on the most famous masters of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance painting. “I forced myself to strictly adapt my windows to the architecture of the building they were supposed to illuminate. But I have always been careful not to simply imitate my teachers, and I believe that I have succeeded in passing on my own personal style in all of my works ”. Ehrismann was a soldier in Laon during the First World War . Here he painted a lot of historical pictures. He had his own workshop with several employees in Strasbourg, in the Robertsau district.

Works

  • Choir window of the Benedictine Church in Altdorf
  • Window of the Protestant Church in Colmar
  • Choir window of the Florentius Church in Kronenburg near Strasbourg
  • Choir window of the Magdalenen Church in Strasbourg
  • Window of the Evangelical Church in Koenigshofen
  • Portal window of the Old Church of St. Peter in Strasbourg
  • Window of the cath. Meistratzheim Church
  • Colmar Savings Bank
  • Church of St. Joseph in Mulhouse (Mulhouse)
  • Overall design of the windows in the Art Nouveau swimming pool in Mulhouse
  • Neudorf Church (Strasbourg), 12 large long windows, all splintered in the Second World War during the first bombing raid on Strasbourg
  • Window in the church of Oberseebach
  • Window in the church of Bischheim
  • Window in the church of Schiltigheim
  • Window in the church of Hoenheim
  • Glass window in the Protestant church of Weitbruch / Alsace, which shows Martin Bucer as a mediator between Martin Luther and Huldryck Zwingli

Some windows are destroyed, partly due to the war. The windows in the Art Nouveau swimming pool in Mulhouse are still well preserved except for the large indoor swimming pool windows. Likewise the windows in the church of Meistratzheim.

Known pictures:

  • Saint Martin Church of Laon
  • Laon Cathedral
  • La rue du Midi à Laon
  • Signatures

  • With “Jos. Ehrismann ”signed window in the former Charterhouse of Molsheim

  • Window signed “Ehrismann” in the same place

  • Window signed “JE” in the same place

Web links

Commons : Joseph Ehrismann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Joseph Ehrismann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , p. 465.
  • Theodor Knorr: Ehrismann, Joseph . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 399 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Joseph Ehrismann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 19 .
  • New Alsatian notebooks. No. 2, 1922, p. 64 (Les nouveaux cahiers Alsaciens).
  • REVUE DU VRAI ET DU BEAU, May 10, 1923, pp. 12-14
  • Monthly Sankt Joseph Voices, Mulhouse (Mulhouse), Sept. 1931
  • Magazine for old u. new stained glass 1913, 8.
  • Christian art . VIII hatchet. Munich, p. 59; IX p. 243.
  • Cat. Exhib. v. Works of young els.-lorhr. Artist. Strasbourg 1908.
  • II. Els.-Lothr. Kst. Exhib. Metz 1910.
  • Erhard Remmert, Art Nouveau windows in southern Germany. 1992, p. 138, list of glass painting establishments.
  • Research center of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences: Martin Bucer - Vita and meaning, photo of a glass window. in the Protestant church in Weitbruch / Alsace (Martin Bucer as mediator)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Munich Academy of Fine Arts: Matriculation No. 03110 Josef Ehrismann. In: Matriculation Book 1884–1920.
  2. ^ Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
personal data
SURNAME Ehrismann, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrismann, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian glass and painter (Artiste peintre)
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Dirty
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1937
Place of death Strasbourg