Karl Radinger (painter)

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Karl Radinger, around 1960

Karl Radinger (born September 11, 1912 in Kriegshaber ; † August 24, 1966 in Neusäß ) was a German painter, active in church painting . As works of Catholic Christian art, he created paintings , altarpieces , stations of the cross , mosaics , wall and ceiling frescoes .

Life

Karl Radinger was born in 1912 in Kriegshaber . At that time, Kriegshaber was still an independent municipality and was incorporated into Augsburg in 1916. Radinger's childhood years were overshadowed by the First World War . In 1926, at the age of fourteen, he began training as a decorative painter and from 1932 attended the Augsburg Werkkunstschule under teachers such as Fritz Döllgast . From 1936 he studied church painting under Franz Klemmer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

Large-format frescoes by Karl Radinger on the choir arch of the Cath. Parish church of St. Wolfgang in Meitingen

During the Second World War Radinger was stationed as a soldier in Gelsenkirchen in 1941 and during this time, as a young artist, he exhibited his works for the first time in galleries and museums in the Ruhr area , such as the Heymer art house in Bochum . In 1942 he became a member of the Bochumer Künstler Kreis and took part in exhibitions in the Bochum Gemäldegalerie , the Märkisches Museum in Witten , Wattenscheid and Siegen . Because of an injury, he had to spend a long time in the Westphalian hospital town of Ahlen in 1944 , where the chief doctor in the St. Michael hospital set up a studio for him. During this time, among other things, his painting The Apostle Paul was created .

After the war, Radinger became a member of the Augsburg artists' association “Die Ecke” and a member of the professional association of visual artists in 1946 . He took part in exhibitions in the "corner" in the Schaezlerpalais and in the destroyed Golden Hall of the Augsburg town hall .

The design of the church of St. Wolfgang in Meitingen , whose pastor was his older brother Johannes (1906–1988), is one of Radinger's main works. Radinger also created the Stations of the Cross for the Holy Trinity Church in his home town of Augsburg, which was destroyed in World War II and then rebuilt, as well as the new altar , the pulpit and a large Christmas crib based on the Tyrolean model.

Karl Radinger died on August 24, 1966, just a few weeks before the age of 54, in a traffic accident in Neusäß . He found his final resting place in the Catholic cemetery in Augsburg-Kriegshaber.

family

Karl Radinger was married and had three sons. His eldest son, Bernhard Radinger, who runs a small private home archive on the district in Kriegshaber , manages his father's artistic estate.

Honors and posthumous exhibitions

Street sign Karl-Radinger-Weg, behind it the green area of ​​the Reese Park

In 2012, the Karl-Radinger-Weg in the new building area on the site of the former Reese barracks in Augsburg-Kriegshaber was named after him. In the same year Radinger's works were shown in Mertingen near Donauwörth on the occasion of his 100th birthday as part of a commemorative exhibition organized by the Friends of Professor Klemmer and his Students.

Works (selection)

  • Ceiling frescoes in the church “St. Nikolaus "in Altenmünster - Zusamzell (1939–1940)
  • Painting The Apostle Paul (1944), Ahlen
  • Altarpieces in Wessobrunn Monastery (1946)
  • Way of the Cross (1947), pulpit, altarpieces and frescoes (1950–1953), pictures of the apostles (1960), picture behind the high altar (1963) and choir arch fresco Last Judgment (1965–1966) in the Church of St. Wolfgang in Meitingen
  • Altarpiece and Way of the Cross in Adelsried (1948)
  • Way of the Cross in the Church of St. Mary's Visitation in the Kämpchen district of the city of Herzogenrath - Kohlscheid (1953–1956), donated by the doctor Paul Rosenbaum
  • Murals in the community hall in Meitingen (1954)
  • Altarpiece in the parish church of St. Blasius in Oberwiesenbach (1955)
  • Altarpieces, ceiling and wall frescoes in the Church of St. Silvester in Zaisertshofen (1955)
  • Way of the Cross in the church in Markt (Biberbach) (1956)
  • Way of the Cross in the church in Ahlen (1956)
  • Cycle of pictures in the parish church of Sankt Nikolaus von Flüe in Westheim (Neusäß) (1957)
  • Altarpiece in the old church in Neusäß (1957)
  • Pietà at the memorial for the fallen in the Augsburg-Kriegshaber cemetery (1958)
  • Altarpieces, stations of the cross and pulpit in the parish church of the Holy Trinity in Kriegshaber (1958–1961)
  • Way of the Cross in the parish church of St. Mary's Cleansing in Konzenberg (1961)
  • Painting of the Agnes- and Ulrichheimes in Augsburg (1961–1962)
  • Painting of the former castle chapel "Sankt Cosmas und Damian" and the Notburgaheim in Westheim (1961–1962)
  • Exterior fresco and Stations of the Cross in the house chapel of the Johannesheim nursing home in Meitingen (1962)
  • Large mural for the city of Kohlscheid (1963)
  • Altar painting Lamentation of Christ in the Church of St. Giles in Neusäß (1963)
  • Mosaic picture of the resurrection of the dead at the old mourning hall in the Augsburg-Kriegshaber cemetery (1966; removed and stored before the hall was demolished in 2014)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Opening of the exhibition with works by Klemmer student Karl Radinger , myheimat.de, accessed on December 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Augsburger Allgemeine: There is no longer any room for the gift of the Americans. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. July 6, 2014, accessed December 22, 2017 .
  3. ^ Entry on Karl Radinger in the database of the German National Library.
  4. ↑ Paul Röschenbeck: The Apostle Paulus. In: The winged eel. Local history from Ahlen-Vorheim-Dolberg. Volume 17, 1998, pp. 33-37, ahlen.de, accessed on December 13, 2017.
  5. ↑ Parish Christ Our Peace, parish of St. Mary's Visitation Kämpchen: St. Mary's Visitation Kämpchen: Our Church. (No longer available online.) In: st-mariae-heimsuchung-kaempchen.kibac.de. Archived from the original on May 31, 2016 ; accessed on December 13, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / st-mariae-heimsendung-kaempchen.kibac.de
personal data
SURNAME Radinger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Warlords
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1966
Place of death Neusäß