Adolf Saile

Mary's window in the Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Baptista in Lautlingen

Adolf Valentin Saile (born October 10, 1905 in Stuttgart; † September 1, 1994 in Stuttgart) was a German glass painter .

Life

origin

Adolf Saile was born in Stuttgart on October 10, 1905. His father was the glass painter and art glazier Wilhelm Saile (1875-1960), who had been married to Lydia Maria Schaefer from Korb († 1961) since 1904. Wilhelm Saile was together with his brother Adolf Saile sen. (1879–1964) Owner of the art glass and glass painting company Saile in Stuttgart, founded by her father Valentin Saile (1841–1924) in 1868.

job

Saile graduated from high school in 1924 and then studied architecture for two years at the Technical University in Stuttgart. He then trained as a glass painter and also attended the Stuttgart Art Academy under the tutors of Arnold Waldschmidt , Robert Breyer and Heinrich Altherr . The artistic collaboration with Rudolf Yelin the Younger began in the 1930s . In 1934 he designed his first church windows for the St. Paul Minster in Esslingen am Neckar. In 1935 he passed the glass painter examination.

He then went into his father's workshop, where he worked as a glass painter and art glass and created an extensive work. He got to know numerous well-known artists who took advantage of the services of the workshop, including Adolf Hölzel, lda Kerkovius, Rudolf Yelin father and son, Walter Kohler, Wolf-Dieter Kohler and Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen.

After returning from the war, Saile set up the glass painting workshop at the State Academy for Fine Arts in Stuttgart at the chair for glass painting and mosaic under Professor Rudolf Yelin the Younger , which he headed until 1965. In 1958 the brothers Wilhelm Saile and Adolf Saile sen. their shares in Adolf Saile jun. and Wilhelm's son-in-law Werner Krahn.

family

In 1940 Saile's first marriage was Martha John from Stuttgart-Feuerbach. The glass painter and restorer Valentin Saile and the glass painter Anna Dorothea Kunz-Saile (* 1941) emerged from the marriage, who continued their father's business from 1977, which is now known as “V. Saile Atelier for Glass Design ”in Moserstraße 5 in Stuttgart. Anna Dorothea Kunz-Saile became a glass painter like her father. Martha Saile was “the woman who bakes the most beautiful Springerle in Stuttgart today and was able to show a small, charming exhibition of them at Christmas 1965. Her husband and daughter Anne-Dore painted their Springerle so beautifully that they were a real feast for the eyes. ”In her second marriage, Saile married Agathe Saile, with whom he published the monograph“ Mode on Modeling: 400 Years of Fashion History ”in 1988 . Saile died on September 1, 1994 at the age of almost 89 in Stuttgart.

Selection of works

Catalog raisonné up to 1985: #Saile 1985.2 .

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year	place	plant
1934	Esslingen am Neckar	Minster St. Paul , window of the east aisle
1930+	Lautlingen	St. Johannes Baptista, Johannesfenster
1948	Lautlingen	St. Johannes Baptista, Marienfenster
1950+	Because of the city	Brenz Church
1958	Stuttgart	Church of the Redeemer , baptismal font, glass mosaic Noah's Ark
1958	Stuttgart	Stiftskirche Stuttgart , right choir window "Revelation window", 3 prophet windows
1959	Zaberfeld	Mauritius Church, 3 glass windows
1960+	Amstetten	Friedenskirche, 7 glass windows
1960	Stuttgart	Matthäuskirche, 3 choir windows: Christmas window, Easter window, Pentecost window
1962	Bönnigheim	City Church of St. Cyriakus, two glass windows
1964	Went to the Fils	Johanneskirche, choir window
1967	Because in the beautiful book	Martinskirche
1972	Bräunisheim	St. Peter
1974	Gruibingen	Parish church, choir window
1974	Untereisesheim	Kunibert Church, Passion Window in the choir. In 2017, his daughter Anna Dorothea Kunz-Saile added the two anniversary windows Creation and Pentecost to the window, true to style.
1977	Obereisesheim	Mauritius Church, middle choir window
1980	Rosswälden	Benedict Church, 3 choir windows
1983	Stuttgart	Leonhardskirche, rose of the west facade with the story of creation

Publications

• Adolf V. Saile: Städtische Galerie Filderstadt, Kleines Kunst-Kabinett Bernhausen; from October 13, 1985 to November 6, 1985. Published by the Städtische Galerie Filderstadt. Edited by Ehrenfried Kluckert and Axel Zimmermann. Filderstadt: Städt. Gallery, 1985. Part 1: Drawings, drafts, glass windows.
• Adolf V. Saile: Städtische Galerie Filderstadt, Kleines Kunst-Kabinett Bernhausen; from October 13, 1985 to November 6, 1985. Published by the Städtische Galerie Filderstadt. Edited by Ehrenfried Kluckert and Axel Zimmermann. Filderstadt: Städt. Gallery, 1985. Part 2: Catalog raisonné.
• Agathe Saile; Adolf Saile: Fashion on models: 400 years of fashion history. Königsbach-Stein: Beautiful, 1988.
• Adolf V. Saile: The choir window of the Evangelical Benedict Church Roßwälden. Roßwälden-Weiler: Scheufele, 2004.

literature

• Ehrenfried Kluckert: Adolf Valentin Saile - a glass painter in Stuttgart. In: Schwäbische Heimat, January – March 1982, issue 1, pages 43–48.
• Albert Walzer: Valentin Saile: one hundred years of art glass and glass painting; Stuttgart, 1868-1968. Stuttgart: Strecker, 1968.

Web links

Commons : Adolf Saile  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

1. ↑ #Waltz 1968 .
2. ↑ #Walzer 1968 , #Saile 1985.1 , page 11-12, #Kluckert 1982 .
3. ↑ #Walzer 1968 , page 55.
4. ↑ #Saile 1988 .
5. ↑ Die Brenzkirche ( Memento from July 20, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
6. ↑ http://www.evkirche-amstetten.de/cms/startseite/kirchen/friedenskirche/
7. ↑ Gabriele von Trauchburg, 1100 years 915-2015 community Gingen an der Fils, Gingen / Fils 2015, p. 261.
8. ↑ http://www.ev-kirche-weil.de/fileadmin/mediapool/gemeinden/KG_weilbreitenstein/Dokumente/Publikationen/MaKi_Flyer_A5__2_.pdf
9. ↑ Hans-Eberhard Dietrich, History and Stories of Bräunisheim, Bräunisheim 1993, pp. 204f.
10. ↑ #Saile 2004 .