Ludwig Baur (church painter)

Altar mosaic based on a template by Hildegard von Bingen,
St. Hildegard (Eibingen)

Ludwig Baur (born August 26, 1904 in Freising , † September 8, 1977 in Sendenhorst ) was a German artist and representative of Expressionist church painting .

Life

Baur grew up in Freising and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He then worked in the preservation of monuments , especially as a restorer . Ludwig Baur took his first restoration orders to Northern Germany , so that he finally moved to Telgte in 1936 .

Baur created fittings for around 200 church buildings, mainly in the Rhine-Ruhr area . He mainly made windows, mosaics, sgraffiti and frescoes , but also ways of the cross , altars and sacred implements . Baur was involved in the reconstruction of Hildesheim Cathedral , where he designed the interior in the 1950s. On Wetzlar Cathedral he also designed as part of a reconstruction the choir windows in the years 1958/1959. He created nine stained glass windows from 1958 to 1964 in the St. Lambertus Church in Düsseldorf . He designed a mosaic picture for the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion in Jerusalem . Between 1961 and 1965 Baur created the altarpiece, pebble stone mosaics and church windows for the parish church of St. Hildegard in Eibingen .

Gerhild Seibert: The Wetzlar Cathedral - choir window . Wetzlarer Dombau-Verein eV (Ed.), Wetzlar 2004, pp. 4-5.

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personal data
SURNAME	Baur, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist, expressionist church painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freising
DATE OF DEATH	September 8, 1977
Place of death	Sendenhorst