Robert Koeck

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Robert Köck (born July 19, 1924 in Fulda ; † January 1, 2016 in Mainz ) was a German artist and art educator. Until 1968 he was a Benedictine monk of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mauritius (Tholey) under the name of Pater Bonifatius Köck .

life and work

Robert Köck completed training at the Landeskunstschule Mainz from 1954 to 1956, which was founded in 1945 and connected to the State Building School. In 1956 he did an internship at Derix Glasstudios in Wiesbaden . Köck left the Benedictine Abbey of Tholey in 1968, married and worked as a freelance artist as well as an art teacher and Catholic religion teacher at the Episcopal Willigis High School in Mainz. On August 1, 1969, he entered the school service of the diocese of Mainz , from which he left on September 30, 1987. Robert Köck was married to Anita Köck (née Malotki von Trzebiatowski ) and had a son and a daughter.

Catalog raisonné (selection)

  • 1958: Tholey, Schaumberg, Chapel "Seven Sorrows of Our Lady of Africa"
  • 1958–1960: Tholey, window in St Abbey Church, Mauritius, all windows
  • 1964: Wallerfangen, window in the Catholic parish church of St. Katharina and St. Barbara, all windows
  • 1967: Cologne, Evangelical Martinskirche, design of all windows, made by Derix / Rottweil
  • 1969: Gisingen, window in the Catholic parish church of St. Andreas, all windows
  • 1972–1975: Hasborn-Dautweiler, Catholic parish church St. Bartholomäus, windows (creation window) above the portal in the old building and all windows in the new building
  • Neunkirchen-Heinitz, Catholic parish church St. Pius X., window zones and glass wall in the weekday church
  • 1960/1961: Renovation of Mayen, Holy Spirit Chapel, all windows
  • 1964–1968: Villingen in the Black Forest, St. Konrad Church, assistance in the new building
  • 1961/1962: Eschenz / Thurgau (Switzerland), Romanesque chapel St. Otmar im Werd, window behind the altar
  • 1962: Irrel, Rhineland-Palatinate, St. Ambrosius parish church, window
  • 1966/1967: Villingen, cath. Church of St. Konrad (interior work), artistic designs and work, design of the liturgical places
  • Fulda, cath. Church of St. Elisabeth, ribbon windows in the church and concrete glazing of the baptistery in front
  • Hünfeld / Hessen, cath. St. Ulrich Church (built 1961–1963), all windows
  • Steinau b. Fulda, cath. Parish church, all windows
  • 1963: Bensheim / Bergstrasse, cath. Church of St. Georg (reconstruction in 1950/1953), design of the choir and five windows in the apse
  • Bensheim / Bergstrasse, funeral hall in the forest cemetery, all windows
  • Heppenheim / Bergstrasse, cath. Church "Apparition of the Lord" (built 1958–1960), all windows
  • Münster iW, cath. Church of St. Margaret, all windows
  • 1971: Hasborn-Dautweiler, St. Bartholomäus: Window of the extension building
  • 1978: Erfurt, cath. Church of St. George (altar consecration 1976/1977), ribbon window
  • Ludwigshafen-Gartenstadt, sister church of the Marienkrankenhaus, glass walls
  • Malschenberg / Kraichgau, cath. Church of St. Wolfgang (1979–1982, consecrated in 1983), glass wall by the altar
  • Mainz, chapel of the St. Vincenz and Elisabeth Hospital (construction started in 1950), overall design
  • 1989/1990: Mainz , Ev. Emmauskirche, artistic design
  • Freiburg im Breisgau, Catholic Church of St. Konrad (1950s reconstruction, 1965/66, 1993–95 renovations), reorganization of the altar area and accessible labyrinth in the former choir, (1995 labyrinth)
  • Trier, St. Matthias Basilica, window in the sacrament chapel
  • Groß-Rohrheim, cath. Church of St. Theresa of the Child Jesus (consecrated 1996), window and wall cross

literature

  • Robert Köck: The picture windows in the Benedictine Abbey Church of Tholey , ed. from the Abbey of St. Mauritius zu Tholey, Tholey 1989.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dossier "Robert Köck", Institute for Current Art in Saarland at the Saar College of Fine Arts
  2. ^ Information from the school management of the Willigis-Gymnasium dated September 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Koeck, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koeck, Boniface
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2016
Place of death Mainz