Peter Recker

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Peter Recker (born September 24, 1913 in Ahrweiler ; † January 28, 2003 in Eichstätt ) was a German glass and mosaic artist of religious motifs of the 20th century.

Life

Peter Recker came from a Catholic family in the Rhineland. After graduating from high school, he trained as a businessman, lived for a while in the Beuron Abbey , until he finally completed art studies at the Cologne factory schools with Jan Thorn Prikker and Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann and in Berlin with the expressionist Magnus Zeller . In 1933 a trip to Rome, Palermo and Ravenna aroused his enthusiasm for the Byzantine mosaic. After studying at the Villa Massimo in Rome, where he went with his teacher Magnus Zeller, who was ostracized by the National Socialists, in 1935/36, he entered the Hermann Göring Master School for Painting in Kronenburg (Eifel) in 1937, led by Werner Peiner . where he devoted himself to monumental painting. From 1939/40 he took part in World War II as a soldier and was taken prisoner by the English in Italy . During this time "war diaries" were created with watercolors of the landscape and people of Emilia-Romagna and the Adriatic . The war experiences ultimately led him to put his artistic work at the service of Christian art.

After the captivity of war, the first large mosaic works followed at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome. From 1950 to 1962 he made large commissioned works (mosaics, glass windows) in the USA . During this time he lived in Milwaukee , Wisconsin . From 1962 until his death in 2003 Peter Recker lived and worked in Eichstätt . He was married to the Italian Bruna Ceresola, with whom he had three children.

Recker's design principle is "towering figures with clear contours, no longer naturalistic, but still just bound to nature, reduced form that expresses the spiritual and spiritual content to the highest degree." (Michael Heberling)

Some works

  • Tagmersheim : Church of St. Jakobus, apse mosaic, Mosaikkrezweg and stained glass window cycle “The Sacraments” (1955–57; stained glass window 1961/62)
  • Tagmersheim: mosaic statue of St. Jakobus, erected in memory of the land consolidation 1965–1973
  • Rome , Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum , apse mosaic in the chapel
  • Indianapolis : USA, St. Rita, Tabernacle (1959) (manufacturer: Goldschmied FX Bilz, Eichstätt)
  • Eichstätt : Seminary at Leonrodplatz 3, representation of the Last Supper, mosaic (1951/52; today only preserved as a true-to-detail copy in the chapel of the Collegium Orientale ; the original was demolished in 1981 with the building it contained)
  • Eichstätt: St. Wunibald boys' seminar in Ostenstraße (today the computer room of the Catholic University), frieze “Faith and Science”, mosaic
  • Eichstätt: District Hospital (loan), parable of the wise and foolish virgins, painting in oil and gold leaf on wood (1973)
  • Ingolstadt , Caritas Center St. Vinzenz, tapestry with the depiction of St. Vincent de Paul
  • Stammham : Catholic parish church, stained glass window
  • Selingstadt (district of Heideck ): Archangel Michael mosaic in the cemetery (1974)
  • Constance - Petershausen : Catholic Church St. Gebhard, choir wall mosaic, depicting the risen Christ as savior and high priest in front of Mount Sinai (1961); Tabernacle (1961); Altar Cross (1961)
  • Meersburg , burial hall of the cemetery: 3 meter high bronze sculpture commemorating the dead in the wars of 1870–1871, 1914–1918 and 1939–1945 and admonishing the living. The fallen and missing Meersburg citizens of the Second World War are listed by name.
  • Nuremberg : Catholic parish church St. Rupert, four meter high sacrament house made of bronze , designed as a burning bush (1977)
  • Nuremberg: Catholic parish church Maria am Hauch, 3 cross-shaped mosaics depicting the “ Rosary ” secrets (1986); Way of the Cross (1983)
  • Nassenfels : "Jesus breaking bread with two disciples". Mosaic on a house wall next to the Bauer bakery

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mute sermon from the wall. In: Eichstätter Kurier from October 4, 2013
  2. ↑ Church newspaper for the Eichstätt diocese of September 22, 2013, p. 16
  3. ↑ Church newspaper for the diocese of Eichstätt from August 5, 1973, p. 6
  4. ↑ Wölfle, Christoph (Ed.): Changes. The Eichstätter Seminar (1564-2014) over the past fifty years. Eichstätt 2014. pp. 254-259
  5. ^ Church newspaper for the Eichstätt diocese of October 6, 1974, p. 23
  6. ↑ Museumsverein Meersburg (ed.): Meersburg under the swastika 1933-1945 . Robert Gessler Friedrichshafen, Meersburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86136-164-0 , pp. 419-421

literature

  • Art in the clinic. The parable of the ten virgins . In: impuls, magazine of the clinics in the Altmühltal nature park, No. 1 (2006), p. 35
  • Michael Heberling: He thought in mosaics. On September 24th, the artist Peter Recker would have been 100 years old . In: Church newspaper for the Diocese of Eichstätt, No. 38 of September 22, 2013, p. 16.

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personal data
SURNAME Recker, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass and mosaic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahrweiler
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2003
Place of death Eichstatt