Karl-Martin Hartmann

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Windows in the choir of St. Nicolai in Kalkar, which, like the rest of the windows in the church, were designed by Hartmann

Karl-Martin Hartmann (born September 14, 1948 in Wiesbaden ) is a German artist who is best known for his photographs and glass painting .

Life

Floor plan of the parish church of St. Nikolaus in Rosenheim with the new Hartmann windows realized from 2004

Karl Martin Hartmann was born in Wiesbaden and graduated from the Gutenberg School there . After studying microbiology from 1968 to 1975 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , from which he graduated as a biologist, he studied art with Johannes Schreiter and Christian Kruck at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 1979 to 1985 . He is married to the artist Kerstin Jeckel and lives in Wiesbaden.

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Two of the newly designed Linz cathedral windows by Hartmann
The new windows realized in 2012 in the Marktkirche Wiesbaden
The memorial site designed by Hartmann in 2010 for the victims of the collapse of the ice rink in Bad Reichenhall

Hartmann has appeared as a painter , photographer, sculptor and designer of glass windows. He became internationally known primarily for his designs for windows in a sacred context. In 1989 he realized several windows in the Gerleve monastery in Billerbeck . In 1993/94 his windows were realized in the Mariendom in Linz .

Since 2000, the Gothic church of St. Nicolai in Kalkar has been gradually being completely equipped with 22 new windows based on Hartmann's designs. It is one of the largest and most expensive refurbishments of a church with glass painting in Germany since the Second World War . The windows in Kalkar made Hartmann internationally known and, after initial criticism, were recognized by many glass painting experts. In a standard work on contemporary glass art , for example, the art historian and monument curator Holger Brülls wrote: The mystical lighting atmosphere and the intense color of the windows may seem more appropriate for a high-Gothic cathedral than for a late-Gothic hall church . This style-historical argument was heard by monument preservers, but also by artists who are used to regulating the lighting conditions in historical rooms in a modern style, but also somehow "correctly" in terms of style. The harmonious overall effect of the windows, their fantastic variety of shapes and splendor of colors, however, have silenced many critics (including the author of these lines) in astonishment - and thereby demonstrated the persuasive nature of Hartmann's art. A special feature of Hartmann's designs for Kalkar are their apparently abstract ornamentation , which in reality shows physical phenomena and discoveries, for example Feynman graphs , the Abell 2218 galaxy cluster and the Hale-Bopp comet . Like all Hartmann's previous designs, the windows in Kalkar were manufactured by Derix Glasstudios in Taunusstein .

From 2004 the artist also realized the new windows for the parish church of St. Nikolaus in Rosenheim . For the 150th anniversary of the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden in 2012, three new windows based on Hartmann's designs were inaugurated. These windows as motives among others an excerpt from the first chapter of the book of Genesis , the Luther Rose and the portrait of Martin Luther in front of a black hole . He realized other church windows in the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Düsseldorf (1998) and in the St. Martinus church in Greven (1989).

Outside the sacred area, he realized, among other things, in 2010 the memorial for the victims of the ice rink in Bad Reichenhall that collapsed in 2006 . In 2011, Hartmann and his wife won the competition to redesign the Faulbrunnen at the Platz der Deutschen Einheit in Wiesbaden. After years of stagnation and financial problems, the two artists, disappointed, withdrew from the Wiesbaden urban development project. He also creates art installations for corporate art collections.

In 1994 Hartmann initiated the project of a red glass stele for tolerance , of which dozens have now been set up worldwide by a non-profit association founded for this purpose, including in Braunschweig , Geisenheim , Kfar Saba , Betlehem , Breslau , The Hague , Tallinn , Tavarnelle Val di Pesa and in the US state of Wisconsin . From 2007 to 2010, the artist also temporarily installed a red glass window in the ruins of the Gothic Werner Chapel in Bacharach to draw attention to the problematic history of the building and to set an example for tolerance.

In 2017, the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden presented Hartmann's extensive photographic work for the first time in a double exhibition with the works of his wife, including numerous rubber prints .

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl-Martin Hartmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Tolerance before eyes - Wernerkapelle Bacharach , accessed on January 11, 2019
  2. ↑ [2] Homepage of the Förderverein Netzwerk Stelen der Toleranz eV, accessed on January 12, 2019
  3. ↑ [3] Homepage Mariendom Linz, accessed on January 12, 2019
  4. ↑ [4] Report by the Rheinische Post , accessed on January 12, 2019
  5. ↑ [5] Report in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , accessed on January 13, 2019
  6. ↑ Holger Brülls in: L'art contemporain du vitrail en Allemagne / Contemporary glass painting in Germany , ed. by Jean-François Lagier, Chartres 2012, p. 159.
  7. ↑ www.pro-physik.de/details/articlePdf/1106933/issue.html Sacral Physics: Interview with the artist in Physik Journal 3 (2004) No. 12, accessed on January 14, 2019
  8. ↑ [6] Internet presence of the company Derix Glasstudios with a report on Hartmann's windows, accessed on January 13, 2019
  9. ↑ [7] Documentation on the homepage of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising , accessed on January 12, 2019
  10. ↑ [8] Report on the homepage of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , accessed on January 12, 2019
  11. ^ [9] Report of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on January 12, 2019
  12. ↑ [10] Report by Wiesbadener Kurier on the competition procedure for the design of Faulbrunnenplatz, accessed on January 12, 2019
  13. ^ [11] Report on a glass stele for Eckelmann AG in Wiesbaden, accessed on January 12, 2019
  14. ^ [12] Homepage of the association, accessed on January 12, 2019
  15. ↑ [13] Documentation by the Jewish communities of Rhineland-Palatinate on the project, accessed on January 12, 2019
  16. ↑ [14] Report by the Wiesbadener Kurier on the exhibition, accessed on January 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Karl-Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden