Konrad Schmid-Meil

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Signature of Konrad Schmid-Meil.
Glass window wall with biblical motifs in the hospital chapel in Roding (part 1 of 3).

Konrad Schmid-Meil (born April 9, 1909 in Weingarten , † February 1, 1969 in Munich , buried in Feldkirchen ) was a politician , painter and artist from Germany .

Life

Konrad Schmid-Meil was born as Konrad Schmid and the legitimate third child of the chief postman Josef Anton Schmid (born April 5, 1876 in Ravensburg - † June 27, 1947 in Weingarten) and the Genovefa Schmid (nee Baumann, born January 3, 1879 - † February 1, 1940 ) born in Weingarten in Württemberg .

In 1933 Schmid-Meil married Irmingard Hadwiga Auguste Marie Therese Meilhaus (born January 16, 1912 - † April 30, 2000 ). From the marriage produced eight children (Silvia Irmgard Maria, born in 1934; Bernardin Hugo Mary ( 1935 - 1937 ); Wulfram Konrad Maria, born 1936; Genoveva Josephine Maria (nickname: "Jenny", * 1939); Hadwiga Gertrude Mary * 1941; Bernwart Erwin Maria, * 1943; Veronika Erika Maria, * 1946; Konrad Bernhard Maria, * 1948). In 1957 Konrad Schmid officially changed his name to Schmid-Meil.

The family lived in Feldkirchen near Munich , where Schmid-Meil also worked as an academic painter and master craftsman (painter / restoration company). From 1958 to 1967 Schmid-Meil was the first chairman of the Feldkirchen gymnastics and sports club (founded in 1912).

activity

job

Schmid-Meil was from November 1, 1922 to November 1925 in an apprenticeship with Josef Barthel in Ravensburg as a barrel painter and gilder (graduation with master's examination). From the winter semester of 1928/29 he was enrolled in sculpture at the State School for Applied Art in Munich, including with Franz Klemmer , who promoted him. After five semesters (fresco painting) Schmid-Meil moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich together with Franz Klemmer . Schmid-Meil studied at the academy from the summer semester 1931 to the winter semester 1942/43 (with interruptions from the summer semester 1935 to the summer semester 1942/43) and successfully completed it.

politics

Schmid-Meil joined the Catholic resistance movement in Germany during the National Socialist regime and later remained politically active. Schmid Meil ​​was appointed mayor of Feldkirchen on October 1, 1945 and appointed by the military government on October 22, 1945. In the election on January 27, 1946, he was then elected mayor. Schmid-Meil was replaced in the election on April 25, 1948 by the master baker Ferdinand Schmid (CSU), from June 1, 1948. He was also represented for the CSU in the provisional district council from 1953 to 1954 and during this time both a member of the district committee also consultant for the former Haar district hospital (now: Isar-Amper-Klinikum München-Ost .). From 1960 until his death in 1969 he was on the municipal council of Feldkirchen.

Artistic focus and work

Due to his religious convictions, Schmid-Meil was primarily active as a church painter and restorer. He also painted watercolors and portraits and illustrated books for young people.

Works

Schmid-Meil preferred a toned painting, always swinging in color chords.

Paintings, frescoes, facades etc.

Examples (Schmid-Meil was mainly active in the Ravensburg - Munich - Upper Palatinate area):

  • Fresco painting in the chapel of the educational home in Queichheim (Palatinate), 1931, with the theme "Christ and the Profession".
  • Parish church Boppard am Rhein - St. Jude Thaddäus , 1932
  • Round stained glass windows in the Jacobskirche in Feldkirchen above the main entrance. Design by Schmid-Meil; Produced by glass painter Brückl (1941).
  • Baptistery in the Jacobskirche in Feldkirchen (tendril altar): large painting in the center with the Archangel Michael, the patron of the former church, who uses huge wings to force Satan down (design 1941 / installation 1958).
  • Sgraffito at the then new elementary school in Roding, Upper Palatinate.
  • Glass window cycle with 42 glass windows in the hospital chapel in Roding, Upper Palatinate.
  • Cemetery chapel "of the painful mother of God" in Weingarten - several ceiling frescos
  • Monumental fresco at the Münch brewery in Feldkirchen (1940), about 14 meters high.
  • Fresco of a protective mantle Madonna as the center, surrounded by fifteen medallions with the secrets of the rosary and the stations of the cross in the church in Neubiberg .
  • Fresco in the Evangelical Chapel on the grounds of the psychiatric Isar-Amper-Klinikum München-Ost in Haar (painted over in 2006).
  • Stained glass window in St. Jude's Catholic Church in 100 Mile House ( Cariboo District on the Interior Plateau , British Columbia , Canada ).
  • 14 stained glass windows in the Catholic Church at Lac la Hache in British Columbia , Canada .

Schmid-Meil left several paintings to the Weingarten local history museum ( Ravensburg district , Baden-Württemberg ).

Book illustrations

  • Wilhelm Hünermann, Teddy, the jockey apprentice: A story for boys , drawings by Konrad Schmid-Meil, Munich 1954, Pfeiffer.
  • Josef Kamp, Emil raises a flag: a story for boys , drawings by Konrad Schmid-Meil; Munich 1955, Pfeiffer.
  • Josef Eschbach, Nights of Adventure: a book by boys , drawings by Konrad Schmid-Meil, Munich 1955, Pfeiffer.
  • Josef Kamp, Georg fights his way through: A boy story , drawings by Konrad Schmid-Meil, Munich 1956, Pfeiffer.

Exhibitions

  • South Cariboo Artists Guild ( 100 Mile House , Canada ), exhibition of selected works, June 3-30, 2011.

literature

Literature about the politician Konrad Schmid-Meil

  • Cornelia Baumann: Chronicle of the community Feldkirchen near Munich, community Feldkirchen 1990.
  • Hans Ulrich Rudolf, Weingarten - yesterday and today; from the village of the Alemanni to the city of the Holy Blood , Lindenberg 2015, Kunstverlag Fink, ISBN 978-3-89870-917-0 , p. 407.
  • Political yearbook of the CDU / CSU, Volume 1, Kommunal-Verlag, Recklinghausen 1950, p. 294.

Literature and press coverage about the artist Konrad Schmid-Meil

  • Das Münster, magazine for Christian art and art history, Volume 22, Schnell & Steiner Verlag, Munich 1969, p. 65, ISSN  0027-299X .
  • Article in the Bavarian Courier by Hugo Schnell from 17./18. February 1934 to the artist Konrad Schmid.
  • Article in the Upper Swabian homeland by Hugo Schnell on September 10, 1936 and by MG on September 24, 1936 on Konrad Schmid.
  • Carl Steingaß - Schmid Meil ​​paintings in Weidenau.
  • Father Bardo Bayerle, OFM Munich: An Upper Swabian artist in Munich .
  • Münchener Zeitung, Kunstverein München eV, October 23, 1940 about the artist Schmid on the occasion of the fresco unveiling at the Münchbrauerei in Feldkirchen (Münchbräu-Feldkirchen).
  • Obituary in Münchner Merkur on February 4, 1969.
  • Obituary in the Bildzeitung , 1969 (issue C8495 A; Munich No. 28; February 3, 1969)
  • Arlene Jongbloets in Showcase features noted German artist in 100 Mile Free Press (www.100milefreepress.net) of June 15, 2011, p. B3.
  • Schmid-Meil, Konrad . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 196 .

Web links

Commons : Konrad Schmid-Meil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelia Baumann: Chronicle of the community Feldkirchen near Munich community Feldkirchen 1990, p. 229, 232.
  2. ↑ Apprenticeship contract was concluded on December 1, 1922. See also: Hans Ulrich Rudolf, Weingarten - yesterday and today; from the village of the Alamanni to the city of the Holy Blood , p. 407.
  3. ↑ See also the obituary for Schmid-Meil in: Das Münster, 1/1969.
  4. ^ Hans Ulrich Rudolf, Weingarten - yesterday and today; from the village of the Alamanni to the city of the Holy Blood , p. 407.
  5. ↑ Cornelia Baumann: Chronicle of the community Feldkirchen near Munich community Feldkirchen 1990, p. 274 f.
  6. ↑ See: CSU Ortsverband Feldkirchen ( Memento from February 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) and District Council as well as Cornelia Baumann: Chronicle of the community Feldkirchen near Munich, community Feldkirchen 1990, p. 275.
  7. ↑ Münchner Merkur from February 4, 1969.
  8. ^ Information from the district of Upper Bavaria , organizational unit, Munich , to user: Asurnipal from April 10, 2015.
  9. ↑ Cornelia Baumann: Chronicle of the community Feldkirchen near Munich community Feldkirchen 1990, p. 324; as well as Münchner Merkur from February 4, 1969.
  10. ↑ Quoted from the Schmid-Meil obituary in: Das Münster, 1/1969.
  11. ^ Hugo Schnell in Oberschwäbische Heimat on September 10, 1936.
  12. ↑ Cornelia Baumann: Chronicle of the community Feldkirchen near Munich community Feldkirchen 1990, p. 264.
  13. ↑ The unsigned painting is “ probably a work by the Feldkirchen painter Schmid-Meil. In any case, he was responsible for the design that he submitted on February 6, 1941. According to the parish letter of July 1, 1958, the work by Schmid-Meil was created years ago on behalf of the ordinariate. The painting was picked up from him on November 14, 1958 and set up together with the newly framed altar on November 27, 1958 ”, says Cornelia Baumann: Chronicle of the Feldkirchen community near Munich Feldkirchen community 1990, pp. 61, 264, 275 and 284.
  14. ^ Website Parish Roding - hospital chapel .
  15. ↑ Upper Swabian Homeland from September 24, 1936.
  16. ^ Münchner Zeitung of October 23, 1940.
  17. ↑ WALDPERLACH - OUR HOME , p. 15.
  18. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung of April 11, 1988.
personal data
SURNAME Schmid-Meil, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vineyard
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 1969
Place of death Munich