Wilhelm Pütz (artist)
Wilhelm Pütz (born July 5, 1875 in Cologne , † October 2, 1957 in Munich ) was a German mosaic and glass artist who worked primarily in Catholic churches. He ran a workshop in Munich-Solln .
Life
Wilhelm Pütz studied at the art school in Cologne and founded a glass painting company in Cologne in 1900. In 1920 he moved to Solln , where he took over the Royal Bavarian Mosaic Court Art Institute from Simon Theodor Rauecker and continued it under the name of the United South German Workshops for Mosaic and Glass Painting. In 1930 he moved the workshop to what was then Schmiedgasse (today Faustnerweg).
In 1940 he received a special assignment from a number of Saarlanders who had been evacuated to Hildburghausen (Thuringia) at the beginning of the Second World War and received pastoral care there in the small Catholic Church of St. Leopold. The Saarland Catholics made a vow on site to establish a Way of the Cross for St. Leopold , should they be able to return happily to their homeland. This was the summer of 1940 after the German conquest of France was the case. The Stained Glass Way of the Cross was inaugurated in March 1941. The Saarlanders housed in Hildburghausen were mainly Catholics from the Saarbrücken-Land and Saarlautern (today: Saarlouis) districts. The specific clients for the Way of the Cross and the costs incurred could not be determined.
After Wilhelm Pütz's death, his daughters Felicitas and Eva Maria continued the workshop.
Works (selection)
- Mosaic altarpieces in St. Heinrich , Bamberg (1934)
- Choir window of St. Mary's Church in Remscheid (around 1935)
- Marien Altar of the Parish Church of the Precious Blood in Marquartstein (1937)
- Way of the Cross in 15 panels in the Catholic. St. Leopold Church (Hildburghausen) (1940/41)
- Picture window in St. Johann Baptist (Solln) (1946–1947)
- Restoration of the destroyed windows of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Augsburg) (1947)
- Picture window of the Marienkirche Kaiserslautern (1952–1954)
literature
- Hermann Sand : Glass painting and mosaic workshop Wilhelm Pütz (= Sollner booklet 74 ). inma Marketing GmbH, Munich 2013.
Web links
- Wilhelm Pütz on the website of the Glasmalerei Research Center
Individual evidence
- ↑ life data according to tombstone; Place of birth and death according to the Traunsteiner Tageblatt
- ^ Workshop in Munich-Solln
- ↑ Hildburghausen district archive, holdings 177/5586 return migrants from the Saar area 1939/40 and holdings 177/5587 return migrants from the Saar area 1940/41
- ↑ glasmalerei-ev.net
- ↑ Traunsteiner Tageblatt
- ↑ Der Christian Pilger Vol. 94 (1941), No. 19 v. May 11, 1941
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pütz, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mosaic and glass painting artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 1957 |
| Place of death | Munich |