Oskar Fritz Beier

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Oskar Fritz Beier (born February 5, 1908 in Dresden ; † April 12, 1972 ibid) was an academic glass painter and glass cutter in Dresden.

Life

Beier was the youngest son of the Dresden master glass maker Oskar Beier , in whose workshops, founded in 1899, the Art Nouveau lead glass fields of the Graupa church were manufactured in 1909 . Thanks to the support of his father, who promoted the artistic talent of his son, Oskar Fritz Beier was able to study his artistic skills at several places of study after he had learned the basic skills of the glazier from 1922 to 1925 in his parents' glass workshop Beier & Walther, Dresden- Johannstadt , Dürerplatz 10 Pursue training.

First he studied at the Dresden Academy of Applied Arts from the spring semester 1925 to the summer semester 1927 with Professors Goller and Guhr , especially glass painting and glass engraving. His classmates included the glass engraver Richard Süssmuth and the glass designer Irmgard Kotte . Following his studies in Dresden, Oskar Fritz Beier worked as a master student at the Werkschule in Cologne with Jan Thorn-Prikker , a glass painter. The next study station was the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts with Wilhelm v. Eiff . Then he returned to his father's company in Dresden, which was completely destroyed in 1945. In 1939 he was drafted into the war in Norway, and in 1948 he returned from French captivity. During the war and prison times, he mainly created watercolors and he earned extra income in French captivity through artistic decorative painting.

After his return, Oskar Fritz Beier founded an art and architectural glass factory in Dresden's Südvorstadt in 1948 , in one of the few buildings still usable, the office building of a former Reemtsma cigarette factory, Chemnitzer Straße 4 b. There was initially started building glass. At the end of the 1960s, Chemnitzer Strasse was renamed Budapester Strasse and the building was given house no. 26. This listed building was demolished in 2001. At the beginning of the late 1950s, Oskar Fritz Beier was able to concentrate more on artistic work and ran it alongside building glass until his death after a serious illness in April 1972. Until then, he lived at Königsberger Strasse 6 in Bühlau .

post mortem

Grave of Oskar Fritz Beier in Dresden-Bühlau

After his death, the widow, Ruth Beier, was able to continue the business for a year with the assistance of an in-house glazier. With the help of the regular team, work that had been started was completed, for example in 1972/1973 the redesign of the lead glass fields of the Lukaskirche in Dresden based on designs by Werner Juza and the execution of the lead glass windows of the Kreuzkirche in Seifhennersdorf , the designs of which came from the Swiss artist Willy Fries . In 1973 the company was handed over to the VEB Denkmalpflege Dresden because both daughters had not taken up any technical or artistic professions. Beer's grave can be found in the Bühlau cemetery .

plant

Building-related art glass work, executed and partly also designed by Oskar Fritz Beier, can be found primarily in Saxony in the sacred, public and private sectors. The plastic glass and stone cut works such as figurative representations, hollow glasses as vases or boxes, portrait high relief cuts, deep cuts and decorative elements are largely privately owned, but also in the State Museum of Applied Arts in Pillnitz and in the Augustiner Museum in Freiburg im Breisgau. All reverse glass paintings are privately owned.

In cooperation with the Evangelical Church of Saxony , here above all with Christian Rietschel , the architect Fritz Steudtner , the graphic artist Paul Sinkwitz and the painters Werner Juza and Hans Jüchser as well as Helmar Helas , lead glass fields were created for various Saxon and Dresden churches. These include St. Annen zu Annaberg , Freiberg Cathedral , Wechselburg Basilica , Wilthen City Church , Radebeul Church and the Trinity Church in Riesa .

In Dresden there are the Bethlehem Church in Tolkewitz, the Lukaskirche in the Südvorstadt (drafts: Juza), the Friedenskirche in Löbtau, the Martin Luther Church and Garrison Church of St. Martin in the Neustadt, the Thomaskirche in Gruna, the Nazareth Church in Seidnitz, the Reformed Church on the Brühlsche Terrasse (own design, altarpiece, consisting of three four-part fields, deep glass, expanded on the occasion of the renovation in the 1990s), as well as the deaconess hospital / hospital church in the Neustadt and the cemetery chapel in Bühlau.

In the public area, for example, works were created for the Bad Elster spa center (own design, deep glass grinding), the Siemens glassworks in Freital (own design, lead fields) and the VEB Braunkohlenkombinat Regis, Phönix power plant (glass bonding, design Rudolf Sitte ). The large leaded glass window of the Dresden-Coschütz waterworks was designed in the early 1950s. In addition, cultural houses in Eisenhüttenstadt (own design, several deep glass sections with depictions of flora and fauna), a student residence in Dresden, Hoyerswerdaer Str. (Colored glass adhesive work, design: Hermann Naumann) and Teplitzer Str., The restaurants "Nürnberger Ei", "Astoria" and "Hansa-Hotel" in Dresden, the aquarium house of the Dresden Zoo (three round deep-cut glasses, approx. 80 cm in diameter with animal motifs, own design). Participation in the restoration of Meißner Castle from 1969 to 1971.

In the private sector there are designs of villas in Dresden and the surrounding area. So in Rochwitz on Bühlauer Weg, on Königsberger Str. 12 (Dr. med. Kintzel's house, demolished in 1995), in the houses of Professors Peter Glatte, Kleine-Natrop, in Dr. Wilfried Schuster, Frauenstein (lead glass field), as well as in his own house on Königsberger Str. 6 (staircase: coat of arms window, lead glass; bathrooms: grinding work).

Works (examples)

  • Lead glass window "Fish" 1966 (diameter approx. 60 cm, bound to the building)
  • Glass sculpture (cut) "Fish" 1964 approx. 12 cm
  • Lead field "St. Franziskus "1968 (approx. 20 × 25 cm, hanger)

  • "Fish" lead glass window

  • "Fish" glass sculpture

  • Lead glass hanger "Franziskus"

Exhibitions

  • Before the Second World War in Denmark and Sweden: glass painting, deep cuts, etchings, reverse glass painting, hollow glasses, glass sculptures, portrait high cuts , hollow glasses, glass gold etchings, gemstone cuts , linocuts
  • 1955 Predigerkloster Erfurt
  • 1956 in the Kulissenhaus Weimar, cut glass sculptures, hollow glasses, reverse glass painting, lead glass painting
  • 1958 Galerie Wort und Werk Leipzig, cut glass sculptures, hollow glasses, reverse glass painting, lead glass painting,
  • 1963 Galerie Kunst der Zeit Dresden
  • 1963/65 in the Dresden Kreuzkirche (art service of the Evangelical Church of Saxony), cut glass sculptures, reverse glass painting, lead glass painting, panel painting,
  • 1965 Augustinian monastery in Erfurt
  • 1965 Dresden City Hall
  • 1970 Dresden State Art Collections , Pillnitz Museum of Applied Arts , Wasserpalais
  • 1990 Augustinermuseum Freiburg i. Br. Posthumously on the occasion of a Wilhelm v. Eiff memorial exhibition of some glass cuts (sculptures and hollow glasses).

literature

  • J. and A. Schuster: Oskar Fritz Beier - a Dresden glass artist , Dresden 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-064065-0 .
  • Gisela Haase: Dresdner Kunstblätter No. V / 1970
  • Maria Schüly: Wilhelm von Eiff and his school , Augustinermuseum, Freiburg i. Br. 1990
  • Writing on the death of Prof. Wilhelm v. Eiff, THE SCHAULADE, Bamberg 1943
  • For the 100th birthday of Oskar Fritz Beier. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , February 5, 2008
  • Oskar Fritz Beier on the 100th In: Elbhang-Kurier , February 2008.
  • Elbhang-Kurier 2012 on the 40th anniversary of Oskar Fritz Beier's death (section "We remember ...")

Web links

Commons : Oskar Fritz Beier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Streets and squares in Bühlau. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved April 6, 2013 .
  2. ^ Dresdner Latest News, Department of Culture: On the 100th birthday of Oskar Fritz Beier on February 5, 2008, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Beier, Oskar Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass painter and glass grinder in Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1972
Place of death Dresden