Carl Clobes

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Carl Clobes (born July 27, 1912 in Kassel , † January 15, 1996 in Tückelhausen ) was a German painter . He created wall paintings , pictures in public and sacred spaces, glass windows and mosaics .

Marriage , stained glass window of the parish church Heiligkreuz, Würzburg

Life

Carl Clobes was supported by the city of Kassel in a drawing and painting course for artistically gifted children at the age of eight. From 1926 to 1929 he learned the painting trade and at the same time attended the arts and crafts school in Kassel. From 1930 Clobes studied at the Berlin Academy (United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts, Berlin-Charlottenburg, class of Professor Ferdinand Spiegel). In 1934/35 he traveled with his brother in a self-built sailing boat via Denmark to France and Italy to North Africa. Back at the Prussian Academy of Arts on Pariser Platz , he became a master student. Numerous friendships developed, including with Hubert Berke , Arnold and Paul Bode , Emy Roeder and Gustav Seitz . From 1940 to 1941 Karl Clobes was a fellow at the Villa Massimo of the German Academy in Rome . In 1941 he married the painter Elisabeth Freitag. The marriage had four children. Clobes was a Wehrmacht soldier from 1943 to 1946 and was taken prisoner of war. Bombed out in Berlin, the family moved to Tückelhausen in Lower Franconia in 1947 .

As part of the reconstruction of the Diocese of Würzburg , he designed walls and ceilings with frescoes, including mosaics, glass windows and free-standing altarpieces, in the newly built churches and in the church renovations . The orders for the artistic design of sacred and public buildings were mainly in the Lower Franconian area ( Würzburg , Riedenheim , Marktbreit , Obersinn , Rottenbauer and others), but also in Munich , Schweinfurt , Münster , Marl , Borken and Berlin . In 1990 he renewed the middle part of a winged altar from the 14th century in the Nikolausberg monastery church in Göttingen.

Clobes undertook study trips all over Europe , via Ireland to the Sicilian south and the western European Atlantic coasts, repeatedly toured the Athos , Greece and the eastern Mediterranean islands such as Patmos and again and again the Middle East from Egypt , Israel to Asia Minor.

Exhibitions

  • 1936 to 1939 exhibitions in Berlin (Prussian Academy, Kronprinzenpalais, Galerie von der Heyde, Galerie Buchholz)
  • 1948 exhibitions in Bielefeld (Galerie Fischer) and Kassel (Galerie Lomesch)
  • 1949 Large art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst, Munich, and in the Gallery for Christian Art, Munich.
  • 1953 and '57 exhibitions in Würzburg (Otto-Richter-Halle)
  • 1962 Exhibition in Schweinfurt together with sculptor Gustav Seitz (head of the sculpture class at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg); Exhibition Otto-Richter-Halle Würzburg
  • 1972 Exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Würzburg together with the painter Elisabeth Freitag and the sculptor Julius Bausenwein
  • 1982 Exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Würzburg
  • 1992 Exhibition in the Marmelsteiner Kabinett in Würzburg
  • 1997 “The Unrest of Truth”: Exhibition Nikolausberg, Göttingen

Honors

Works

  • Frescoes in Maria Hilf (Schweinfurt) , Burkardushaus (Würzburg), Marienkapelle (Wü-Heidingsfeld) and St. Thekla (Ochsenfurt), Jesserndorf
  • large-scale city views of Würzburg and Ochsenfurt for the respective town hall
  • large panels for kindergarten (Hagen / TW, Osnabrück) and old people's homes (Würzburg, Belm near Osnabrück)
  • numerous crossroads in the Würzburg area, in Ochsenfurt, Munich, Obernbreit , Regensburg, Münster, Borken
  • Glass window u. a. in Königstein, Obersinn, Preunschen, Ochsenfurt, Bad Neustadt, Waldsassen and Berlin (Hedwig's Cathedral)
  • Mosaics in the Ursuline monastery and cathedral (Würzburg)

literature

  • Karl Clobes on his 80th birthday . Marmelsteiner Kabinett, Würzburg 1992.
  • Karl Clobes, Elisabeth Freitag, Julius Bausenwein . City Gallery, Würzburg 1972.
  • Carthusian Museum Tückelhausen. A museum of the Diocese of Würzburg . Kunstverlag Lindberg, 1997.
  • The unrest of the truth. 42 pictures by Karl Clobes , Göttingen 1997.

Web links

Commons : Karl Clobes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by Elisabeth Freitag-Clobes in the art collection of the Diocese of Würzburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information from the Office of the Federal President
  2. ↑ Heiligkreuz (WürzburgWiki)
personal data
SURNAME Clobes, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clobes, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1996
Place of death Tückelhausen