Wilhelm Derix

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Wilhelm Derix (* 1837 ; † 1919 ) founded a glass construction company in Goch on the Lower Rhine in 1866 .

history

Emblem of the stained glass workshop Derix in one of the windows of the St. Lamberti Church in Ochtrup

Wilhelm Derix made his breakthrough with an exhibition in Münster in 1885, both nationally (window in the Xanten Cathedral ) and internationally, so that orders were received worldwide. In 1908 Derix supplied the Vatican with the window "Christ gives Peter the supreme pastoral office", two more for the Sistine Chapel followed. Pope Pius X received Wilhelm Derix and his sons in 1910 and awarded them the New Year's Eve . The company was allowed to call itself "Papal Court Glass Painting W. Derix" and manufactured countless church windows at home and abroad, hundreds of them for churches in the Netherlands after the Second World War . Mosaics were added to the program in 1936. After the company split in 1941, the following family businesses developed their own styles in glass craftsmanship.

Business branches

The company has three branches that bear Derix's name and can refer to the founding date of 1866 (management: as of 2008):

  • Hein Derix KG has been based in Kevelaer on the Lower Rhine since 1886 and is headed by Peter Derix and Werner Heymann ("Hein Derix KG Kevelaer - workshops for glass painting, mosaics and restorations").
  • In 1941 workshops were built in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth and rebuilt in 1954, which are managed by Elisabeth Derix (" Workshops for Glass Painting Derix Mosaik und Restaurierungen KG, Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth").
  • In 1946 Wilhelm Derix IV opened a glass painting facility in Rottweil , which moved to Wiesbaden in 1952 and to Wehen (Taunusstein) in 1974 ; In 1990 the gallery "Art in the Glass House" was opened there and in 1999 a branch was founded in New York. The company is run as a family business by Wilhelm Derix IV., Rainer Schmitt (managing director), daughter Barbara Derix and Ursula Rothfuss, née. Derix, led. (" Derix Glasstudio GmbH & Co. KG, Taunusstein").

Manufacturing

The glass refiners (former job title: glass painter ) paint , etch , sandblast , layer or process glass in airbrush technology with enamel paints . The glasses are cut and - depending on the desired technology - fired, leaded , cemented or glued until they are designed into glass windows, light ceilings, glass sculptures or walls. The Derix factories undoubtedly occupy a special place among the roughly 600 German art glassworks. You benefit

  • from their experience, unbroken for generations, which is passed on in the master craft,
  • from the fact that they have about 4,000 colored glass tones in stock,
  • from the quickly available glasses from Glashütte Lamberts from Waldsassen , where only real antique glass and every glass in every color can be produced in Germany ,
  • from contacts to nationally and internationally renowned artists who are encouraged to work with and in glass or who have already tried out handling the material,
  • from contact with the only academy in Germany where glass design can be taken.

Works (selection)

Guy Kemper Rise , 2008, St. Joseph's Chapel Ground Zero, NY (Photo: Robert Benson; Branch: Derix Taunusstein)

The number of glass art bearing the name Derix is ​​almost unmanageable. Outstanding examples in Germany (branch: Derix Taunusstein): A restoration workshop was built in the Cologne Dombauhütte from 1945–1962, the “Pentecost Window” restored in 1980 and the “ Richter South Transverse House Window” in 2007 , in which 11,250 glass squares in 72 colors were processed. Also in Cologne are twelve windows designed by Markus Lüpertz for the St. Andreas Church . In the Wiesbaden town hall , Johannes Schreiter (conference room), Jochem Poensgen (ballroom) and Ludwig Schaffrath (stairwell) were the first three renowned glass artists at work in one and the same building. The Medenbach motorway church on the A 3 was also built in 2001 with Derix's participation. In St. Johann Baptist, Wuppertal , choir windows made of glass and amber were made by Clemens Hillebrand . International examples include: the illuminated 700 m² glass ceiling of the “Formosa Boulevard” subway station in Kaohsiung in Taiwan by Narcissus Quagliata and by Guy Kemper, the entrance wall at Seattle Central Station and the glass windows in St. Joseph's Chapel at Ground Zero in Manhattan .

In 2014, five windows designed by the Frankfurt artist Skorupa and manufactured by Derix were installed in the apse of the church in the Marienhausen monastery near Aulhausen in the Rheingau . In 2016, four glass windows, designed by Johannes Schreiter , were installed in the transept of the Evangelical City Church in Langen by the Derix glass studio in Taunusstein.

literature

  • Holger Brülls: artist windows as a source of inspiration for contemporary glass painting: experiences from the modern age. In: Wilhelm Derix (ed.): Lüpertz, Richter, Schreiter. Large glass painting projects in 2007 in Cologne and Mainz. Taunusstein-Wehen 2008, pp. 12-55 ( ISBN 978-3-00-026004-9 ).
  • Christof Rose: Art. Glass art in architecture . Chamber of Architects North Rhine-Westphalia April 19, 2007 [1] (Branch: Hein Derix)
  • Birgitta Lamparth: Art. Where windows come to life . Wiesbadener Tagblatt of July 4, 2007. [2] (Branch: Derix Taunusstein)
  • Suzanne Beeh-Lustenberger: Art made of glass in architecture . Taunusstein, 1991.
  • Elisabeth Derix (ed.), Dagmar Täube : Art times - glass painting and mosaic. Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth, 2016, B. Kühl Verlag, ( ISBN 978-3-87448-462-6 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mathias Gubo: Art. Handwritten dedication of the Pope .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Wiesbadener Tagblatt from May 22, 2008.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.main-rheiner.de  
  2. ↑ Art private! 14. + 15. June 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / einfallsreich.net  
  3. ↑ Tobias Kammerer combines conventional and modern glass art techniques and forms in his works (Bernhard Rüth (Ed.): Kammererx2. Rottweil 2006 ISBN 3-928869-20-5 ).
  4. ↑ Lamberts Glassworks
  5. ↑ State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2012 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abk-stuttgart.de
  6. ↑ Michael Köhler: Zerbrechliche Kunst. Deutschlandfunk July 25, 2008
  7. ↑ Mathias Gubo: Art. Craft makes the gate to heaven . Wiesbadener Kurier, January 23, 2007 ; New Windows St. Andreas Church Cologne ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2008 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sankt-andreas.de
  8. ↑ Katinka Fischer: Art. Drawn movement in glass . Johannes Schreiter and Derix celebrate 50 years of cooperation. Wiesbaden Courier from November 6, 2008 (branch: Derix Taunusstein)
  9. ↑ Homepage Narcissus Quagliata with examples of works
  10. ^ Homepage Guy Kemper with catalog raisonné, examples and awards.
  11. ↑ Recalling the simplicity of the Cistercians in FAZ from April 19, 2014, page 50
  12. ↑ New Schreiter window for church in FAZ of December 30, 2015, page 47
personal data
SURNAME Derix, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass contractor
DATE OF BIRTH 1837
DATE OF DEATH 1919