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

Wall painting Evangelical Church of Hohenstaufen (1932–1940)

• 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

Commons : Walter Kohler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Oberhofenkirche Göppingen Christmas 2011
• Philipp-Matthäus-Hahn-Church, Albstadt-Onstmettingen
• Stephanskirche Mähringen near Kusterdingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oliver Kohler: Our love should not be sad. A war child in search of clues ; Asslar 2017 - ISBN 978-3-86334-135-0
2. ↑ 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. 
3. ↑ Kilgenstein Cross Church
4. ↑ Organ and choir window of the Kreuzkirche pdf
5. ↑ Community letter of the Ev. Weingarten parish, No. 1/2014 , p. 34
6. ↑ Website of the Protestant parish Stuttgart-Heslach
7. ↑ 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. 
8. ↑ 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. 
9. ↑ City Church of St. Veit Waldenbuch
10. ↑ Christ Church Reutlingen
11. ↑ [1]
12. ↑ 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
13. ↑ 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.