Vincenz Pieper

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Vincenz Pieper (born July 16, 1903 in Münster ; † January 13, 1983, ibid.) Was a German painter and art educator . Since 1955 professor for free drawing and painting at the Technical University of Berlin he designed several church windows in the Rhineland , Westphalia and the Sauerland after World War II .

Life

Pieper grew up as the son of a state insurance officer in a large family in Meschede . Here, after finishing school, he began his three-year training as a painter and then received his first orders in the field of church art. He also worked as a backdrop painter for the then Catholic journeyman's association (now Kolping ).

He graduated from high school Laurentianum Arnsberg , then studied painting from 1923 to 1925 at the Knirr School and the School of Applied Arts in Munich under Richard Riemerschmid . Study stays in Paris and Berlin brought new impressions before he went to the art school in Maria Laach, the so-called Beuron School , from 1929 to 1933 . From 1935 he became a private student of Professor Hugo Troendle in Munich before he started working as a freelancer. He had his first studio in Münster. From July 1941 to February 1943 he was a soldier in World War II. After the war, on October 1, 1947, he was given the teaching position and head of the department for ornamental and figurative design at the Werkkunstschule in Münster . For the first time he taught the techniques of mosaic , glass painting and wall painting .

On March 1, 1955, he was appointed to the Technical University of Berlin as holder of the chair “Free Drawing and Painting” at the Faculty of Architecture, which he held until his retirement on October 1, 1969. The Aachen architecture professor and building researcher Jan Pieper is his son.

Honors

Works

  • St.Ludgeri (Münster) church choir window (1960/61)

  • St.Ludgeri (Münster) Large north window (1970/71)

  • St. Ludgeri (Münster), large south window

  • St.Ludgeri (Münster) nave window (1970/71)

  • St.Ludgeri (Münster) Small window westwork (1970/71)

  • St.Ludgeri (Münster), Large window westwork (Last Judgment, 1970/71)

  • Minden Cathedral, window detail (manufacturer's signature)

  • 1951 Cologne - Cologne Cathedral competition, north window, first prize, not carried out
  • 1952 Münster - Rheinischer Hof, window
  • 1953 Meschede - Church of the Assumption of Mary, all windows
  • 1953 Münster - Münster Chamber of Crafts , window design, stairwell
  • 1954 Münster - Borromäum, window day room and director's room
  • 1955 Bottrop - St. Elisabeth Church, window
  • 1955/1957 Minden - Cathedral , choir window, window in the transept, several windows in the nave
  • 1958 Münster-Angelmodde - Church of St. Agatha , window of the ship
  • 1961 Münster - St.Ludgeri , church window, choir (1960/61) and nave (1970/71)
  • 1962 Berlin - Mosaic in the anteroom of the Auditorium Maximum of the Technical University
  • 1963 Halle (Westphalia) - Protestant parish church, window design
  • 1964 Hamm Nord - Church of Maria Königin, design of the windows
  • 1964 Beckum - mosaic in the entrance of the St. Elisabeth hospital
  • 1964 Cologne - Cathedral, west window, executed
  • 1964 Münster - Marianum, chapel window
  • 1965 Hardehausen - Bischöfliches Bildungswerk (Paderborn), thick glass window in the church
  • 1965 Gescher - Chapel of the “Haus Hall” nursing home, choir window
  • 1966 Cologne - St. Andreas Church, choir window
  • 1966 Bocholt Lowick - Window in the St. Bernhard Church
  • 1966 Münster - Marienschule , window of the auditorium
  • 1966 Münster - Dental clinic, mosaic in the entrance hall
  • 1968 Münster - St. Theresa Church, all windows
  • 1968 Münster - Servatikirche, window of the ship
  • 1968 Clarholz - parish church, church window
  • 1968 Willibrordi-Dom Wesel west window in the tower hall
  • 1970 Bottrop - St. Pius Church, window
  • 1971 Münster - St. Mary's Church, window of the ship
  • 1974 Emsdetten - St. Josefs-Kirche, church window in thick glass
  • 1977 Hiltrup - Chapel of the Sacred Heart Missionaries, window design
  • 1977 Duisburg - Chapel of the Carmel Mother of Good Council, church window
  • 1977 Mönchengladbach-Rheydt - St. Marien Church , window design
  • 1978 Coesfeld - Church of St. Maria Frieden, stations of the cross in mosaic
  • 1979 Cologne-Niehl - St. Katharinenkirche, window design

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personal data
SURNAME Pieper, Vincenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and creator of church windows
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1983
Place of death Muenster