Walter Klocke
St. Boniface Church Hohenlimburg
Walter Klocke (born August 27, 1887 in Bielefeld , † November 5, 1965 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German painter and designer. In the course of church reconstruction in the 1950s, he created the designs for new leaded glass windows for a large number of churches, especially in the Ruhr area, to replace the originals destroyed in the Second World War.
Klocke lived in Gelsenkirchen from 1922, from 1938 to 1955 in the Tiemannhof artists' estate in Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen , then in Sutum.
literature
- Brigitte Spieker (author), Rolf-Jürgen Spieker (photographer): Creed in glass, light and color: Walter Klocke - a Gelsenkirchen glass painter and mosaic artist , 2nd edition, 2017, ISBN 978-3-942395-08-3
Web links
Commons : Walter Klocke - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- List of works with links to images of most of the Klocke windows
Individual evidence
- ↑ Creed in Glass, Light and Color , Neues Ruhr-Wort, October 2, 2015, online , accessed on December 21, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klocke, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist, designer of church windows |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielefeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1965 |
| Place of death | Gelsenkirchen |