Karl Matthäus Winter

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Karl Matthäus Winter (born December 24, 1932 in Worms , †  September 19,  2012 in Limburg an der Lahn ) was a German artist and sculptor . He created numerous sacred works of art as well as four statues for the new figure cycle on Cologne's council tower .

Life

Friedrich II. And Innocent III. at the Cologne town hall tower
Nepomuk on the Old Lahn Bridge in Limburg an der Lahn
New market fountain in Kiedrich
Altar in St. Katharina Buschhoven

After graduating from school in 1947, Karl Matthäus Winter began his artistic career through an apprenticeship with his father, the sculptor and ceramist Adam Winter . The apprenticeship was followed in 1951 by a three-year course at the Landeskunstschule Mainz , with Emy Roeder among others . In 1954 he moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy and became a student of Ewald Mataré . He was good friends with the Mataré student Elmar Hillebrand and worked on various assignments with him, including the memorial for the former synagogue on Lappenberg in Hildesheim. Since 1957 he lived and worked in Limburg an der Lahn.

Important works by Karl M. Winter can also be found in the pilgrimage church of St. Katharina (Buschhoven) , for which he himself gave a few explanations: The work for St. Katharina began in 1968 with a dove of peace made from basalt lava on the outside of the foundation stone. In 1970, Karl Winter created the altar as a block of Estremos marble with apparently ornamental motifs based on emerging vegetative forms in a symbolic arrangement of numbers - three (trinity, divine), four (relating to the "whole" world) and seven (perfection, completeness) . The “foliage then grows together to form a tabletop to serve as a sacrificial altar”. The sacrament stele from 1970 contains the same ornamentation as the altar, but the vegetative forms are united in a common "crown", with the number three playing an important role here, based on the hexagonal ground plan (2 by 3). “The ambo from 1972 has many leaves, perhaps because the kingdom of God grows like a stately shrub from the small mustard seed of the Annunciation!” The simple bronze door of the tabernacle was changed ten years later at the request of the pastor, and the Eucharistic symbols are also included - ears of corn and vines - worked out in ivory, were added when it was against his concept. The "housing" for the figure of Mary or the Stele made of the Italian stone "Pepperino rosso" with inlaid flowers from "Estramos", created in 1975, shows the rose bush ornamentation and thus takes up the theme of the " Rosa mystica ". In 1971 the sculptor Winter created the baptismal font in Estramos marble, which "is about the source of living water and shows that it overflows in abundance".

His main works include the four figures for the council tower of Cologne city hall. Shortly before his death, he created the altar, ambo and tabernacle for the new diocesan center St. Nikolaus in Limburg an der Lahn on behalf of Franz-Peter Tebartz van-Elst .

Karl Matthäus Winter was married to the goldsmith Marie Louise Perabo since 1957.

Works (selection)

Exhibitions

  • 2013: Kunstraum 27, Cologne, with catalog
  • 2006: Taken from the pedestal - Cologne City Museum exhibits council tower figures (participation)
  • 2018: There is no talk of art, the artist couple Marie Louise Winter and Karl Matthäus Winter - Diözesanmuseum Limburg, 2018.

literature

  • Vera Bachmann: artist biographies . In: Hiltrud Kier , Bernd Ernsting, Ulrich Krings (Hrsg.): Cologne: The Council Tower. His story and his program of characters . JP Bachem Verlag, (Stadtspuren - Denkmäler in Köln, Volume 21), Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1156-0 , p. 670.
  • Old and new art in the Archdiocese of Paderborn , Volume 39, 1999, ISBN 3-00-005204-6 , p.
  • Peter Claus: Sculptors and their work in the Rheingau - Part 4 - Karl Matthäus Winter, Limburg, b. 1932 . In: Rheingau Forum Heft 1, 2007, pp. 23–26.
  • Clemens Hillebrand : Karl Matthäus Winter, sculptures and reliefs - catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Galerie Kunsttraum 27, Cologne, 2013.
  • Dorothee Haentjes-Holländer : The pilgrimage church of St. Adelheid am Pützchen, discovery of an art space. (=  Monument and History Association Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch eV [Hrsg.]: Small contributions to memorials and history in Bonn on the right bank of the Rhine . Volume 2 ). Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-9812164-4-8 (48 pages).
  • Theodor Kloft, Dominik Müller, Melanie Scheidler: Art is not talked about - the artist couple Marie Louise Winter and Karl Matthäus Winter, catalog for the exhibition of the Diocesan Museum Limburg, Diocese of Limburg, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Karl Matthäus Winter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vera Bachmann: artist biographies . In: Hiltrud Kier , Bernd Ernsting, Ulrich Krings (Hrsg.): Cologne: The Council Tower. His story and his program of characters . JP Bachem Verlag, (Stadtspuren - Denkmäler in Köln, Volume 21), Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1156-0 , p. 670.
  2. ↑ bistumlimburg.de: No space for pomp and show ( Memento of the original from December 26, 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. , accessed January 26, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bistumlimburg.de
  3. ↑ nnp.de: Karl Winter has left his workshop forever , accessed on January 26, 2015
  4. ↑ Kath. Pfarramt Herz-Jesu, Ettlingen (Hrsg.): Ettlingen Herz-Jesu-Kirche . No. 021 edition. Art publisher Harald Lipp, Horb am Neckar, 1996.
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Karl Matthäus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winter, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 2012
Place of death Limburg on the Lahn