Protz and Ehret

Signature on a window in St. Gordian and Epimachus, Watterdingen

Protz und Ehret was a glass painting workshop in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Alfred Protz was an employee of Fritz Geiges , who started his own business in 1901 and initially manufactured glazing for secular buildings. In 1911 he teamed up with Armand Ehret, who had worked at Helmle & Merzweiler since 1882 , as the Protz und Ehret company. Workshops for stained glass and lead glazing on Rotlaubstrasse. 13 together. The company soon replaced Helmle & Merzweiler as the leading workshop in Freiburg and produced glass paintings for more than 130 churches, mainly in southern Baden . It worked primarily on designs from outside artists and existed until the 1930s.

Works

• 1911/12, Friedenweiler , St. Johannes Baptist
• 1912 Ehrenstetten , St. Georg, two choir windows
• 1911/13 Friesenheim , St. Laurentius (designed by W. Füglister)
• 1914–1918 Bonndorf , St. Peter and Paul , at least four windows
• 1917 Wasenweiler
• 1920 Waltershofen
• 1921 Durlach , St. Peter and Paul
• 1922 Watterdingen , St. Gordian and Epimachus
• 1922/23 Weilheim
• 1926 Bühl , Burgstübchen zum Ochsen, feast with St. Elisabeth
• 1929 Efringen , Luther Church (designed by A. Ludwig), 2 windows

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  Friedenweiler, St. Johann Baptist, window with St. Agnes

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  Watterdingen, St. Gordian and Epimachius, window with St. Agnes

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  Bonndorf, St. Peter and Paul, Window with the Baptism of Jesus (1914)

literature

• Daniel Parello: From Helmle to Geiges. A century of historicist glass painting in Freiburg . Stadtarchiv, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, ISBN 3-00-006521-0 , p. 171. 290 (catalog raisonné).

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '17.6 "  N , 7 ° 51' 11.8"  E