Manfred Karsubke

Manfred Karsubke (born December 9, 1929 in Cologne , † July 15, 2011 in Friedberg ) was a German glass painter . His role models were Dominikus Böhm , Wendling, Strater and Teuwen.

He was born as the son of the Müngersdorf teacher Alfred Karsubke. In 1947 he began his training as a glass painter in the oldest glass painting in Cologne. In 1951 he finished his training and made his first designs. In 1952 he moved to Friedberg in Hesse and found employment with the Glas Glatt company in Friedberg. He designed glass sections in a house chapel in Addis Ababa and for a hospital in Iceland . Among other things, he was commissioned by the Archbishop of Cuba to design 17 glass windows for the Eglesia Corpus Christi in Havana .

During this time he married into the Glatt family and took over the Glas Glatt company . Karsubke had been retired since 1988.

Works

His work can be found in numerous places in the vicinity of Friedberg, for example in Hungen, Dudenhofen, Groß Biberau, Echzell, Nieder-Florstadt, Gedern, Wölfersheim and in Ranstadt , where he received the design of the windows for the Catholic Church after a competition. A church in Cologne purchased his design, Der Sonnengesang des St. Francis .

Two of his works are on display in the permanent exhibition in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt .

Individual evidence

• vitalis-pankratius.de ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• M. Karsubke: Multicolored glass shone in the round arch of the basilica's windows, like the splendor of a spring meadow . In: Website St. Anna, Kath. Gemeinde Ranstadt. Retrieved October 13, 2018 (work in St. Anna and description).