Walter Kohler (painter)
Walter Kohler (born May 1, 1903 in Schönbronn ; † January 28, 1945 in Stuttgart ) was a German art and glass painter and co-founder of the Stuttgart Secession .
Career
The son of a Protestant pastor studied at the Stuttgart Art Academy with professors Robert Poetzelberger and Christian Adam Landenberger . During an interim semester in Berlin , he came into contact with Expressionism . The windows in the Evangelical Church in Gerhausen with depictions of the Passion are among his earliest ecclesiastical works. In 1940/41 he created the choir windows in the Degerloch church (today Michaelskirche), where his father was pastor from 1922 to 1934. He designed church windows in Göppingen , Obertal (Baiersbronn) and Sindelfingen , murals in Reutlingen and in the Protestant church in Hohenstaufen (1934–1940).
Walter Kohler was commissioned to design three twenty-two meter high choir windows for the Moritzkirche in Halle an der Saale. The clients were enthusiastic and asked him for designs for the planned new windows for Naumburg Cathedral . The outbreak of World War II prevented this work from being carried out. Walter Kohler was drafted and served as a soldier in France. During the last heavy air raid on Stuttgart he was killed on the night of January 29, 1945.
His son Wolf-Dieter Kohler restored most of his father's windows after the war, repaired war damage and designed additional windows himself (Philipp-Matthäus-Hahn-Kirche in Albstadt- Onstmettingen , Martinskirche in Neuffen ).
Works
- 1927 in the Protestant church in Gerhausen
- 1930 in the St. Agathakirche in Weissach
- 1931 in the Kreuzkirche in Klingenstein
- 1931 Resurrection window in the Evangelical City Church in Weingarten
- 1931 in the Kreuzkirche in Heslach
- 1932 in the Martinskirche in Neuffen
- 1932 in the Nikolaikirche in Heilbronn (destroyed in the war)
- 1933 in the Protestant church in Baiersbronn-Obertal
- 1933 in the Martinskirche in Sindelfingen
- 1934 in the town church of St. Veit in Waldenbuch
- 1936 in the Christ Church (Reutlingen)
- 1938/39 in the Johanneskirche Esslingen am Neckar
- 1939 in the Moritzkirche in Halle (Saale) (choir window)
- 1940 in the Protestant church in Hohenstaufen
- 1940 in the evangelical Oberhofenkirche in Göppingen
- 1941 in the Degerloch Church (Michaelskirche) *
- 1942 in the Stephanskirche in Mähringen near Kusterdingen (choir window)
Web links
- Oberhofenkirche Göppingen Christmas 2011
- Philipp-Matthäus-Hahn-Church, Albstadt-Onstmettingen
- Stephanskirche Mähringen near Kusterdingen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Kohler: Our love should not be sad. A war child in search of clues ; Asslar 2017 - ISBN 978-3-86334-135-0
- ↑ St. Agatha Church Weissach ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kilgenstein Cross Church
- ↑ Organ and choir window of the Kreuzkirche pdf
- ↑ Community letter of the Ev. Weingarten parish, No. 1/2014 , p. 34
- ↑ Website of the Protestant parish Stuttgart-Heslach
- ↑ Martinskirche Neuffen ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Martinskirche Sindelfingen ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ City Church of St. Veit Waldenbuch
- ↑ Christ Church Reutlingen
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Jürgen Hennig: The great Last Judgment - the wall painting by Walther Kohler ; in: Community letter of the Ev. Church community Hohenstaufen, special edition June 2004 - available as PDF [2] , last accessed on May 19, 2020
- ↑ Michaelskirche Degerloch ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kohler, Walter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art and glass painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1903 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Schönbronn |
DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1945 |
Place of death | Stuttgart |