Reinhard Heß (painter)
Reinhard Heß (born June 30, 1904 in Trier , † August 9, 1998 in Wittlich ) was a German painter and glass painter . He designed windows for over 40 churches in the Diocese of Trier , mostly in collaboration with the architect Fritz Thoma .
family
Reinhard Heß was the oldest of nine children of Peter Heß (1876–1921) and Gertrud Heß, b. Steffens (1880-1946). Gertrud Heß came from a family of winegrowers and hosts from Alf on the Moselle . Peter Hess, who came from a family of butchers in Trier, started his own business as a master painter and also took on orders for church painting. In his free time he devoted himself to painting and copied old masters. Reinhard Hess came into contact with painting in this way as a child.
In 1926 Reinhard Heß married Anna Maria Doyen (1902–1982), with whom he would have three children.
career
In the 1920s, Reinhard Heß completed an apprenticeship in his father's company and at the same time attended the crafts and arts and crafts school in Trier. His teachers were Hans Proppe and August Trümper. After the death of his father he worked as a church painter in Luxembourg and in 1923 he took over the management of his father's painting business. Until 1925 he attended the crafts and arts and crafts school again. In the same year he took part for the first time in an exhibition ( Business and Art ) in Trier.
In 1926 he was awarded first prize in a poster competition organized by the Reich Committee for Wine Propaganda. His design - in a slightly modified form - is still today the emblem of the Association of German Predicate and Quality Wineries .
In 1928 Reinhard Heß went on his first study trip to Italy and stayed for six months in Rome , Florence and Venice . There he was enthusiastic about the pittura metafisica and the pictures by Gino Severini , Giorgio de Chirico , Carlo Carrà , Giorgio Morandi and Filippo De Pisis , which he could see in the original in the local art galleries.
After his return from Italy he was involved in the painting of the church of Neumagen on the Moselle, based on designs by August Trümper. When Heinrich Dieckmann (1890–1963) became director of the crafts and arts and crafts school in 1930, he appointed Hess to teach painting and materials science.
As Dieckmann, who was forced to resign in 1934, had to Hess after the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1935 to give up his place. In order to earn a living, he passed the master's examination as a painter and rejoined the family painting business that his brothers had meanwhile continued to run. During this time, Hess did not take part in any exhibitions and only sold pictures to friends and sponsors. In 1940 Reinhard Heß was called up for military service and, after initially stationed in Trier, was transferred to Holland and later to Trieste .
In 1945 he returned to Trier and in 1946 was appointed by Fritz Grewenig (1891–1974) as an assistant teacher for applied painting and graphics at his old school, which had been called the master school for the creative craft since 1943 and from 1951 Trier Werkschule (today Trier University ) . From 1947 to 1953 Reinhard Heß was the deputy director of the school, where he worked in the decorative painting department until his retirement in 1969.
In 1948 Reinhard Heß was commissioned to design a window in the northern transept of the church of the former Benedictine Abbey of St. Matthias in Trier. It was his first commission to design a church window. Since many churches had lost their windows as a result of the war damage, this field of activity should bring many orders in the following years. In the 1950s and 1960s Reinhard Heß designed glass windows for numerous churches in the Diocese of Trier, e. B. in Saarbrücken, Andernach, Niedermendig, Koblenz. For the Heilig-Rock pilgrimage in 1959, he designed the curtain with the head of Christ for the high altar in Trier Cathedral . He also designed the windows of the east crypt of the cathedral, for which he received recognition for art in architecture in 1975 . In addition to his designs for church windows, Reinhard Heß created over 800 oil paintings and watercolors , as well as prints and drawings.
Hess was one of the founding members of the State Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK) founded in 1948 . He was also a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bildender Künstler am Mittelrhein (AKM) founded in 1949 and the European Association of Visual Artists from the Eifel and Ardennes (EVBK) founded in 1957 . Since 1958 he belonged to the Neue Gruppe Rheinland-Pfalz (NG).
In 2003 the city of Trier named a street after him, which in 2004 was renamed from “Reinhard-Heß-Straße” to “Maler-Heß-Straße” to avoid confusion with Rudolf Heß . Reinhard Heß is buried in the parish cemetery St. Matthias in Trier.
Honors
- 1962: Kaiser Lothar Prize from the European Association of Visual Artists from the Eifel and Ardennes
- 1975: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 1988: Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
- 1994: Letter of honor from the city of Trier
Exhibitions
- 1928: Exhibition with Heinrich Hamm and Michael Trierweiler in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
- 1956: Participation in the Groupe de Peintres Rhenans et Sarrois exhibition at the Duncan Gallery in Paris
- 1962: Personal exhibition at the Wolfgang Gurlitt Gallery in Munich
- 1964: Personal exhibition in the gallery of the German Book Association in Karlsruhe
- 1964: Exhibition of the AKM (Association of Fine Artists on the Middle Rhine) in the electoral palace in Koblenz
- 1974: Exhibitions in the Künstlerhaus Metternich in Koblenz
- 1977: Personal exhibition with Michael Trierweiler in the City Museum Simeonstift Trier
- 1978: Participation in the Salon Comparaisons at the Grand Palais in Paris
- 1984: Retrospective in the Electoral Palace in Trier on the occasion of his 80th birthday
- 1985: Exhibition at the Dada House cultural center in Luxembourg
- 1986: Participation in the exhibition "German Expressionists"
- 1988 and 1994: Exhibitions in the Simeonstift city museum in Trier
- 1997: Retrospective in the series "Great Rhineland-Palatinate Artists" of the Ludwigshafen am Rhein art association
- 1997: Exhibition in the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Trier "Paths of Life"
- 2009: Exhibition in the Electoral Palace in Trier "Unknown Works"
Stained glass window
| place | building | Executing glass workshop | Window (motif) | year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Then after | Catholic parish church Maria Himmelfahrt (Church of Our Lady) | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 8 side aisle windows (symbols of the Lauretanian litany : Tower of David , rosary, sailing ship and morning star, lily, mother of God, crown with crescent moon and stars, crown and dove with branch, chalice), triplet windows in the triumphal arch wall (eye, cross and dove as symbols of the Trinity ), 2 small ornamental windows in the entrance area, 2 clover-leaf and 1 quatrefoil window in the choir area (ornamental) | 1962 |
| Bad Kreuznach | Holy Cross Catholic Parish Church | Stained glass? | 3 concrete glass windows on the west facade (cross, free composition) | 1969 |
| Bad Munster am Stein | Catholic parish church Maria Himmelfahrt | Glass painting Binsfeld (Trier) | Concrete glass window of the baptistery (free composition) | 1962 |
| Bermeshausen ( Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm ) | Lady Chapel | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 3 windows on each side of the choir (symbols of the Lauretanian litany, left: morning star / sea star, cross, lily with crown, right: rose, dove with branch, chalice), 1 window on the west side ( Maria ) | 1955 |
| Buchholz ( district of Bernkastel-Wittlich ) | Catholic branch church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 3 single-lane choir windows (grapes and ears of wheat as symbols of the Lord's Supper , anchor and fish as symbols of Christ) | 1952 |
| Buchholz (district of Bernkastel-Wittlich) | Catholic branch church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 4 two-lane tracery windows in the side aisles (ornamental, with stylized lilies) | 1954 |
| Esch-sur-Alzette | Catholic parish church of St. Heinrich | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | Skylight windows and rose windows (triangle as a symbol of the Trinity, with a red triumphal cross), concrete windows (free composition, with symbols of the Eucharist such as grapes and ears, fish and dove) | 1960 |
| Höchstberg ( Vulkaneifel district ) | Catholic branch church St. Markus | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 8 arched windows of the choir ( eight bliss : empty chest / blessed the poor, Agnus Dei / blessed the non-violent, resurrection / blessed the mourning, bread and wine / blessed the hungry, heart of Jesus / blessed the merciful, lilies / blessed are the pure of heart , Cross and two doves / Blessed are the peacemakers, cross and chain / Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of justice), 10 ornamental windows in the nave, 2 ornamental windows in the side room, 2 ornamental windows on the southern choir wall | 1954 |
| Hosting | Catholic branch church of St. Joseph | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 6 nave windows ( Annunciation , Birth of Christ , Epiphany , Resurrection of Christ , Pentecost miracle , Coronation of Mary ), oval choir window (three women at the grave of Christ), window above the west portal (cross and doves) | 1953 |
| Hülzweiler | Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 4 windows of the side aisles (Creation, Brazen Serpent , John the Baptist , Heavenly Jerusalem ), 4 windows of the antechamber (Annunciation, Christ as Man of Sorrows , Resurrection, Last Judgment ), 5 windows of the two western side chapels (free composition), 1 concrete window in the left baptistery (dove as a symbol of the Holy Spirit) | 1967 |
| Koblenz | Catholic Parish Church of Our Lady | Glass painting Binsfeld (Trier) | 3 windows in the southern side choir (vine as a symbol of the Eucharist) | 1951 |
| Koblenz | Catholic Parish Church of Our Lady | Glass painting Binsfeld (Trier) | 2 windows in the south side choir (lily and roses) | 1955 |
| Koblenz | Catholic Parish Church of Our Lady | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 2 four-lane tracery windows (passion symbols) and 1 two-lane tracery window (red passion flowers) in the northern side choir | 1956 |
| Koblenz | Catholic Parish Church of Our Lady | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 2 windows each of the northern and southern vestibules (free composition) | 1962 |
| Koblenz-Lützel | Catholic parish church Maria Hilf | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 7 choir windows (Christ, evangelist symbols, free composition), 3 oval and 1 arched windows in the transepts (free composition) | 1964 |
| Koblenz-Neuendorf | Catholic Parish Church of St. Peter | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 6 windows of the Lady Chapel (stylized lilies, symbols of the Lauretan litany) | 1953 |
| Koblenz-Neuendorf | Catholic Parish Church of St. Peter | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | Choir window (Transfiguration of Christ), 2 windows of the baptistery (cross and dove) | 1958 |
| Koblenz-Neuendorf | Catholic Parish Church of St. Peter | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 3 arched windows on the west side of the gallery (coat of arms of Popes Pius X. , Pius XI. , Pius XII. ), 5 windows on the south side ( evangelist symbols eagle, bull, lion, human figure, in the middle: Mary with child) | 1959 |
| Koblenz-Neuendorf | Catholic Parish Church of St. Peter | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 4 windows on the east side and 1 oval window in the side choir (ornamental) | 1960 |
| Kröv | Catholic parish church of St. Remigius | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 15 choir and side windows (free composition), 1 baptismal window in the right aisle (red cross) | 1964 |
| Marienburg ( district of Cochem-Zell ) | Marienburg Chapel | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 2 arched windows of the choir side chapel (Seven Sorrows of Mary, Virgin Mary) | 1952 |
| Marienburg (district of Cochem-Zell) | Marienburg Chapel | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | Side window as a combination of concrete and lead glazing (free composition) | 1957 |
| Low-ended | Catholic parish church of St. Cyriakus | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 5 choir windows (free composition, red triumphal cross), two-lane window on the south wall of the choir (St. Cyriacus , St. Genoveva) | 1960 |
| Low-ended | Catholic parish church of St. Cyriakus | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | Window of the Lady Chapel (rose and lily as symbols of Mary) | 1961 |
| Low-ended | Catholic parish church of St. Cyriakus | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | large window above the portal (free composition), pointed arch window in the entrance hall (free composition, left with sea star, right with cross) | 1966 |
| Low-ended | Catholic parish church of St. Cyriakus | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | two-lane window on the north wall of the choir (free composition), four-lane window in the north aisle (Trinity), large round window in the south aisle (free composition with red triumphal cross) | 1968 |
| Low-ended | Catholic parish church of St. Cyriakus | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 5 side aisle windows (free composition), 2 windows on the west wall (free composition) | 1969, 1971 |
| Piesport-Niederemmel | Catholic parish church of St. Martin | Stained glass? | 6 choir windows (free composition), 5 transept windows (free composition), oval concrete window on the west side (white dove, red cross, eye of God as symbols of the Trinity) | 1962 |
| Prümzurlay | Catholic branch church of St. Nicholas | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 4 nave windows ( Christ in the wine press , symbols of Mary, bread and fish), 1 choir window (free composition) | 1952 |
| Riegelsberg | Catholic parish church of St. Joseph | Glass painting Binsfeld (Trier) | 4 choir windows (left: Saint Barbara and Saint Anna ; right: Saint Peter and Saint Matthias , 2 ornamental windows ), 8 nave windows ( Joseph and the Seven Joys of Mary), 1 three-lane window each in the north and south transept (free composition, with cross in Quatrefoil) | 1959 |
| Saarbrücken | Catholic parish church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus | Stained glass? | 8 choir windows (Archangel Gabriel , Archangel Michael , symbols of the Heart Jeus litany ) | 1953 |
| Saarbrücken | Catholic parish church of St. Elisabeth | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | Five-axis window on the rear ( Flood and Noah's Ark , tablets of the Law and Mount Sinai , cross as a reference to Christ's Passion), 8 nave windows (free composition with stations from the life of Jesus: birth, baptism in the Jordan, temptation of Jesus, wedding at Cana , last Last Supper, Jesus on the Mount of Olives ), ribbon windows of the crypt (free composition) | 1954 |
| Saarbrücken | Catholic parish church of St. Elisabeth | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | Window of the west tower (Pentecost miracle) | 1959 |
| Saarbrücken | Catholic Parish Church of St. Paul | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 9 windows in the Lady Chapel (free composition with symbols of the Lauretan Litany and the Eucharist) | 1960 |
| Saarbrücken- Burbach | Catholic parish church of St. Eligius | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | Concrete windows on the west side (Trinity), 7 windows in the side chapel (Passion of Christ), north and south windows of the transept (free composition) | 1959 |
| Saarbrücken- Burbach | Catholic parish church of St. Helena | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | circumferential ribbon window (Passion symbols, holy skirt , handkerchief of Veronica , saint Helena ) | 1959 |
| Saarbrücken-Malstatt | Catholic parish church of St. Joseph | Stained glass? | 4 windows of the baptistery (fire and water), 4 single-lane tracery windows of the southern chapel on the west side (John the Baptist, Joseph with lily, Saint Matthias with ax, Archangel Michael with flaming sword), 2 large two-lane windows of the nave (ears of corn and grapes as Symbols of the Eucharist), 8 two-lane tracery windows of the nave (ornamental), 4 windows of the north and south chapel in the western nave (ornamental), 2 small windows on the south side in front of the choir (ornamental with white rose) | 1955, 1956 |
| St. Wendel | Catholic parish church of St. Anna | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 6 windows in the left aisle (symbols of the sacraments: dove / baptism, sword / penance, bread and wine jug / Eucharist, priest stole and key / priestly ordination, cross with rings and chalice / marriage, cross with oil vessel and palm branch / last unction), 3 choir windows (Vine as a symbol of the Eucharist), skylights of the main nave (colorless, with a few, small colored glasses) | 1957 |
| fault | Catholic parish church of St. Gertrud | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 7 round windows above the former north portal (creation story), 4 round arched windows on the north side (free composition), 2 round arched windows in the side chapel ( Arma Christi ) | 1953 |
| Thiergarten | Catholic branch church | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | round choir window (Himmelstor), small ornamental window on the right in the choir | 1961 |
| trier | Catholic parish and abbey church of St. Matthias | Glass painting Binsfeld (Trier) | Gothic tracery window in the north transept (Eucharist) | 1948 |
| trier | Catholic parish and abbey church of St. Matthias | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 3 triple windows in the sacristy (center: risen Christ and evangelist symbols; left: Maria, Hildegard von Bingen , Saint Helena; right: Saint Matthias and Apostle, the first bishops of Trier, Eucharius and Valerius ) | 1957 |
| trier | Seminary church of the Episcopal Seminary of the Holy Trinity | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 5 two-lane tracery windows in the choir (Weinstock), six-lane window above the west portal (passion and eschatology ) | 1951 |
| trier | Chapel of the Episcopal Konviktes | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | larger window on the left side of the choir, 14 arched windows (symbols of the Lauretan litany, etc.) | 1954 |
| trier | Catholic parish church of St. Ambrosius | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | Nave window (free composition) | 1954 |
| trier | St. Mark's Chapel | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 4 choir windows (geometric), tracery over the entrance (cross and doves) | 1957 |
| trier | St. Peter's Cathedral | Stained glass? | 4 arched windows in the east crypt (free composition) | 1973/74 |
| Trier-Olewig | Chapel of the former Borromean convent | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 3 single-lane choir windows ( Karl Borromeo , Majestas Domini , Maria Magdalena ) | 1953 |
| Trier-Olewig | Catholic parish church of St. Anna | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | Ribbon window of the choir (free composition and symbols of passion), 2 arched windows of the left side choir (rose and lily), 1 window of the right side choir ( Augustine of Hippo ), 5 windows of the right side aisle (geometric compositions), west rose (dove as symbol of the Holy Spirit ) | 1955 |
| Trier-Zewen | Catholic parish church of St. Martin | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | Window in the Lady Chapel (symbols of the Lauretan Litany), lantern window above the chancel (symbols of the Trinity: eye of God, cross and dove) | 1957, 1958 |
| Trier-Zewen | Catholic parish church of St. Martin | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | large window on the west side (geometric composition) | 1973 |
| Wershofen | Catholic Parish Church of St. Vincentius | Glass painting Kaschenbach (Trier) | 7 choir windows (creation story), window in anteroom (tree of life) | 1953, 1962 |
literature
- Tobias Hött: Reinhard Heß - Unknown Works. Exhibition cat., Ed. from the Kunstverein Trier Junge Kunst e. V., Trier 2009.
- Sandra Ost: Hess, Reinhard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 26, Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 3-88309-354-8 , Sp. 701-706.
- Bärbel Schulte: Reinhard Heß - painter and glass painter in Trier . Ed. from the Städtisches Museum Simeonstift Trier, Trier 1997, ISBN 3-930866-12-9 .
- Bärbel Schulte: Reinhard Heß's life paths. Exhibition cat., Ed. from the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum Trier, 1997.
- Bärbel Schulte: Reinhard Heß - Retrospective. Exhibition catalog, published by the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein e. V., 1997.
- Bärbel Schulte: Hess, Reinhard . In: Heinz Monz (ed.): Trier biographical lexicon . Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , p. 177.
Web links
- Literature by and about Reinhard Heß in the catalog of the German National Library
- Exhibition Unknown Works in the Electoral Palais Trier 2009
- Entry on Reinhard Heß in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
- Literature by and about Reinhard Heß (painter) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hess, Reinhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hess, Reinhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and glass painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1998 |
| Place of death | Wittlich |