Ludwig Schaffrath

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Ludwig Schaffrath (born July 13, 1924 in Alsdorf ; † February 6, 2011 in Bardenberg ) was a German sculptor , painter (especially glass painting ) and university professor.

job

Schaffrath attended the Schlütter School in Nienborg - Heek (factory school for Christian art) from 1946 to 1947 . He then worked until 1954 as an assistant to Anton Wendling at the chair of freehand drawing in the architecture department of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen . In 1975 he led the master class at Burleighfield House in Loudwater , England. This was followed from 1976 to 1978 teaching activities in Berkeley and at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood , Washington, as well as thirteen lecture tours in the United States.

In 1981 he also taught at Adelaide University and at the Caulfield Institute of Technology in Melbourne , from 1981 to 1984 and again in 1997 in Tokyo, Kyoto, on Okinawa, Osaka. From the 1985 summer semester he took over the professorship for glass design and painting, which had been vacant since the winter semester (successor to Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen ) at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , an office which he held until his retirement in 1993. Among his students there, Thierry Boissel , Susanne Feix , Katja Ploetz , Raphael Seitz and Gabi Weiß emerged as glass designers .

Ludwig Schaffrath lived and worked in his hometown of Alsdorf, which in 1999 granted him honorary citizenship and the city's ring of honor. He found his final resting place in Aachen's St. Joseph Church of the Holy Sepulcher .

Works (selection)

Schaffrath embellished several churches and other facilities in Geilenkirchen and the surrounding area with glass windows and other works, including the Church of St. Josef Bauchem, the Franziskusheim and the Parish Church of Immendorf .

Primary works
  • Seminary Aachen / Episcopal Academy of the Diocese of Aachen : Windows in the foyer (1951/1952), in the seminar room (1966) and in the chapel (1951, 1962, 1970/1971 and 1982)
  • St. Michael Schweinfurt: glass window of the church interior (1968)
  • Monastery of the Maria Schutz church in Kaiserslautern: windows in the cloister and church [1998/2000]
  • Sankt Gregorius in Aachen: vestibule, cross on the nave and glass surfaces of the facade.
  • German Glass Painting Museum in Linnich: Entrance front / glazing (1997).
  • St. Leonhard in Frankfurt: 3 choir windows [1993] In St. Leonhard there are a total of 23 Schaffrath windows, which were made between 1990 and 1993. Lit .: Oidtmann 1997, illustration p. 239.
  • City Library Alsdorf: Pastel chalk drawing Dual [1991]
  • St. Lucia Broichweiden: All windows, except the side window of the tower chapel, starting with the 3 central choir windows (1970) to the tracery skylights in the transverse exits (1995). The ceiling decoration was created from 1993 to 1995 and the altar mosaic in 1995.
  • Aachen Cathedral : cloister at the cathedral - a total of 32 windows. (1962–1965), 3 windows in the vestibule - skylights over the portals (1997).
  • Omiya, train station , entrance hall, window wall 440 × 1250 cm. (1982).
  • Osaka - Japan: Decoration of the new train station with a mosaic (1983).
  • St. Josef (Aachen) , in today's Church of the Holy Sepulcher, 21 windows were built between 1971 and 1975
  • From 2005 the series Schwanengesang was created . These are glass steles with a size of 2.50 m × 1.00 m. All deal with topics that Ludwig Schaffrath accompanied during his artistic career. Some are a tribute to people who have influenced his life's work very much.
  • St. Willibrord in Euchen ( Würselen ): 3 glass windows in the choir, 2004.
Secondary works
  • Herta Schmitz-Cliever-Lepie ; Ann Münchow; Ludwig Schaffrath: The cathedral treasury to Aachen. Aachen Cathedral Chapter, 1986.
  • Rainer Flock; Maria Katzgrau; Ludwig Schaffrath: stained glass. Our exhibition. Issue 14. Stadtsparkasse Aachen, 1967.

literature

  • Stuttgart encounters: The Wolfgang Kermer donation ; Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, May 18 - June 24, 2005 [Ed .: Neunkircher Kulturgesellschaft gGmbH; Nicole Nix-Hauck. Catalog: Wolfgang Kermer]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Jung: Stylistic and creative means of the artist Ludwig Schaffrath: Selected glass paintings. 2010, ISBN 9783640730292 , page 2.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer: Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [16].
  3. ^ Stained glass in the Aachen seminary / Episcopal Academy of the Aachen diocese,
  4. ↑ Website: Churches in Kaiserslautern ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchen-in-kl.de
  5. ↑ Website: St. Gregorius, Aachen
  6. ^ Website of the Oidtmann glass painting ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with pictures of the entrance front of the German Glass Painting Museum @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glasmalerei-oidtmann.de
  7. ^ Website of the Oidtmann glass painting ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with pictures of the 3 choir windows of the St. Leonhard Church in Frankfurt @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glasmalerei-oidtmann.de
  8. ^ City library Alsdorf: Pastel chalk drawing Dual
  9. ↑ Official website of the parish with pictures of the works ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / www.sanktlucia.de
  10. ^ Lit .: Ludwig Schaffrath, Glasmalerei und Mosaik. Scherpe Verlag, Krefeld 1977, pp. 12-15.
  11. ^ Official website of the artist with pictures from the cloister of Aachen Cathedral
  12. ↑ Oidtmann 1997, pp. 24-25.
  13. ^ Official website of the artist with pictures from Omiya
  14. ^ Official website of the artist with pictures from Osaka
  15. ↑ Horst Dieter Rauh wrote an essay on the works from 2005-2007, which can be found on his website, including photos

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personal data
SURNAME Schaffrath, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter (especially glass painting)
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2011
Place of death Bardenberg