Lorenz Helmle

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Lorenz Helmle (born July 30, 1783 in Breitnau , † February 15, 1849 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German glass painter .

Lorenz and his brother Andreas (1784–1839) were the sons of the farmer Georg Helmle (* 1758). He initially earned his living with his father and brother as a clock shield painter in home work. The two brothers went to Freiburg around 1820. With financial and non-material support from Ferdinand Benedikt von Reinach-Werth (1769–1841), they dealt with medieval glass painting, with Lorenz specializing in painting the glasses, Andreas on the technical side of glass painting. They created the first monumental stained glass in southwest Germany after the Middle Ages.

In 1824/26 they made windows with a Passion cycle based on Dürer's templates for the Last Supper and Holy Sepulcher Chapel of the Freiburg Minster (badly damaged in 1944, restored today and back in the Minster). In 1830/31 they made the west window for the Mainz Cathedral according to a design by Franz Hubert Müller (destroyed in an explosion in 1857). Between 1830 and 1849 they worked with the Swiss painter Hieronymus Hess (1799–1850), who created numerous designs for them. According to his designs, windows with the allegories of the sciences and arts were also created for the reading room of the General Reading Society in Basel in 1833 and windows with famous Basel personalities in the Haus zum Schönen Eck in Basel in 1844/45.

His sons Ferdinand (* 1826) and Heinrich (1829–1909) continued the workshop until it was renamed Helmle & Merzweiler in 1875 .

literature

  • Wilhelm von Waldbrühl : Lorenz Helmle. In: Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen 27, 1849 [1851], pp. 172-179 ( digitized version ).
  • Wilhelm von Waldbrühl: The life of famous master craftsmen . Literarisches Anstalt, Frankfurt 1853, pp. 276-280 ( digitized version ).
  • Lorenz Helmle. In: Friedrich von Weech (ed.): Badische Biographieen . First part. Bassermann, Heidelberg 1875, p. 356 ( digitized version ).
  • Elgin Vaassen: Pictures on Glass. Glass painting between 1780 and 1870 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-422-06206-8 , pp. 43–45.
  • Daniel Parello: From Helmle to Geiges. A century of historicist glass painting in Freiburg . Stadtarchiv, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, ISBN 3-00-006521-0 , pp. 38–56. 90-118. 258–259 (catalog raisonné).
  • Daniel Parello: Helmle, German glass painter . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 71, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023176-2 , p. 390.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emigrated to Philadelphia in 1853, returned in 1857 and worked for his brother; Parello 2000, p. 111.
personal data
SURNAME Helmle, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Breitnau
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1849
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau