Valentin Peter Feuerstein
Valentin Peter Feuerstein (born July 9, 1917 in Neckarsteinach ; † November 29, 1999 in Heidelberg ) was a German painter , restorer and glass painter .
Live and act
Valentin Peter Feuerstein (sometimes also Peter Valentin Feuerstein) was the son of a master painter and grew up in a Catholic family. After an apprenticeship as a painter, he was drafted into labor service in 1938 and then into the air force . His relocation to Munich allowed him to study at the Academy of Fine Arts there. A stay in Italy due to the war opened his eyes to the art there. Therefore, he decided to forego taking over his father's painting business and embark on an artistic career. After the Second World War , he first worked as a restorer . In 1948 he succeeded in discovering and attributing the Windsheimer Twelve Messenger Altar to Tilman Riemenschneider (Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg ).
From the mid-1950s he discovered glass painting as a medium for himself, in which case he was self-taught . Until his death, he designed a large number of wall paintings, above all more than 830 glass windows in around 120 churches and chapels , mainly in south-west Germany, Franconia and Westphalia. Feuerstein also led the restoration of the historic St. Mauritius Church in Hemsbach from 1963 to 1966, where he restored wall paintings and created a stained glass window, and around 1970 he also played an important part in the restoration of the parish church of Our Lady in Eppingen .
Five windows for the Ulm Minster (1979–1986), a rose window in the Freiburg Minster (1971), as well as window cycles in the so-called Dom des Frankenlandes in Wölchingen (1959), in the Breisacher Minster (1967) and in the Überwasserkirche in Münster ( 1973). In addition to the glass and wall paintings, he created a large number of smaller works, such as bell decorations, bronze doors, altar reliefs and tapestries ( Merzhausen , Darmstadt ).
In 1990, Feuerstein was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.
Works
Altarpieces
- Catholic Church St. Paul (Heidelberg) (1987)
Stained glass window
- Protestant Church in Ihringen
- Protestant church in Bahlingen am Kaiserstuhl
- Protestant church in Dilsberg
- Protestant church in Neckargemünd
- Seminary in Speyer
- catholic church in Limburgerhof
- Catholic Church in Wachenheim
- catholic church in Altglashütten
- Catholic Church in Bermersbach
- Protestant church in Willstätt-Sand
- Catholic Church in Unterkirnach
- Catholic Church in Schlatt
- Catholic Church in Hagnau on Lake Constance
- Catholic Church St. Gallus in Merzhausen
- Catholic Church of Our Lady in Karlsruhe
- Catholic parish church of Our Lady in Waibstadt
- Chapel of St. Achatius in Grünsfeldhausen
- St. Georg in Siegelsbach
- St. Johannes Nepomuk in Eberbach
- St. Josefsklinik in Offenburg (St. Josef mural, 1955)
- St. Laurentius Church in Wiesloch
- St. Michael in Wiesenbach
- Neuburg Abbey
- Josef Chapel in Schwetzingen
- Bonifatius-Nothelfer-Kapelle in Oberwittstadt
- Chapel of the St. Michael nursing home in Heidelberg
Wall painting (selection)
- Catholic Church of St. Georg in St. Georgen in the Black Forest
- Catholic Church in St. Laurentius Bretten (1996–1998)
- Catholic church in Neuthard .
- Ceiling paintings
- Catholic Church St. Bonifatius Karlsruhe (1978)
- Catholic Church Liebfrauen Karlsruhe (1991)
- Catholic Church of St. Laurentius in Bretten (1987).
Web links
- "Optical dialogue" - article on Christoph Feuerstein's lecture about his father's work ( Memento from March 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Evangelical Church Congregation Dilsberg , accessed on August 2, 2014
- ^ Martin Ruch: Chronicle of the St. Josefsklinik Offenburg 1956–2006 , accessed on August 2, 2014
- ^ The choir painting by Peter Valentin Feuerstein (1993). Catholic parish of St. Georg. From StGeorg.atspace.com, accessed January 9, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feuerstein, Valentin Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, restorer and glass painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neckarsteinach |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 1999 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |