Will Thonett

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Wilhelm "Will" Thonett (born July 16, 1931 in Cologne ; † June 5, 1973 there ) was a German artist.

Life

Will Thonett lived in Cologne and worked there as a freelance artist. From 1953 he studied painting at the Cologne Werkschulen with Friedrich Vordemberge , whose master class he became in 1956. In 1957 he married the artist Marianne Tralau and the couple had three children (* 1958; 1959, 1962).

Together with Fritz H. Lauten , Marianne Tralau , Hermann Baus and Clärchen Baus-Mattar, he founded the artist group “kölnerschule”. On June 9, 1962 he took part in the stage for sensual perception - KONZIL , a cultural forum founded by Gerd Hergen Lübben as part of the “Studium Universale” of the University of Bonn , with the exhibition of his apostrophized “TIHRBILDER'ANIMÄLDE”.

In addition to painting, Thonett increasingly turned to wood carving in his last years, using used wood, e.g. B. used parts of cupboards, drawers, windows or railway sleepers. His favorite subjects come from Christian mythology. Thonett referred to himself as "apostate Catholics". In the Rhineland there are numerous stained glass windows by Will Thonett in churches, schools and other public buildings.

Jürgen Schön writes in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger on the occasion of an exhibition in the Cologne KAOS gallery : “It was a Cologne original. For the legendary carnival celebrations of the 'barn' he provided new and imaginative decorations every year. [...] His idiosyncratic wood collages appear fresher than the works of many current youngsters. Finds with clear signs of use and impermanence were Thonett's starting material. Partially painted, he put them together to form sculptures in which Cologne piety and Cologne wit, which often hits with a delay, are mixed. Spartan and just as impressive is a crucifix: two dark beams, a thick wood for the head, the wreath of thorns a broken metal ring. Full of irony, a little house in the country or Cologne to take away : you can see two cathedral spiers behind a weathered window frame. "

Thonett died at the age of 41 where he lived.

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Church window:

  • St. Kunibert (Cologne) (choir / apse: 1 window lower row, middle; crypt: 1 window east)
  • St. Ursula (Cologne) (round arched window west and south wall, 1967)
  • St. Pius, Cologne-Zollstock (crypt, 1957)
  • St. Germanus (Wesseling) (2 windows confessional chapel, 1963)
  • St. Brother Konrad Chapel in Alt St. Alban, Cologne (5 windows, 1962)
  • St. Peter, Zülpich (crypt)
  • Chapel Mülheimer Friedhof, Cologne-Höhenberg, Frankfurter Str.
  • Redemptorist Monastery Cologne-Mülheim, Holsteinstr. 1 (7 windows residential / administration building)
  • St. Johann Baptist, Bergisch Gladbach-Refrath (1963)
  • St. Severin (Hermülheim) , Hürth-Hermülheim, Severinusstrasse / corner of Krankenhausstrasse (1967) (south wall)
  • St. Johann Evangelist, Cologne-Stammheim (altar room, 1972)
  • St. Mary's Birth (Efferen) , Hürth-Efferen, Frongasse 8 (1973)
  • St. Mary's Birth, Cologne-Stammheim
  • Church of the Catholic University Community , Cologne-Sülz (1969)
  • Chapel of the Dr. Dormagen Foundation, Cologne-Longerich (1960s) - no longer available

Windows in other public buildings

  • Humboldt-Gymnasium, Cologne, Kartäuserwall 40 (12 windows, stairwell, 1958)
  • Berthold Otto Primary School, Cologne-Holweide, Buschfeldstr. 46 (stairwell, buildings A + B, 1962)
  • Catholic primary school, Cologne-Holweide, Friedlandstr. 5 (stairwell, 1962)
  • Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Cologne , Cologne-Neuehrenfeld, Ottostraße 87
  • School Berliner Straße, Cologne-Dünnwald (stairwell)
  • Vocational college town center, Mülheim / Ruhr, Von-Bock-Str. 87-89 (1965)
  • Vocational college Humboldtstrasse, Perlengraben building, stairwell, Cologne
  • Hans-Böckler-Vocational College, Cologne-Deutz, Eitorfer Str. 18-20 (stairwell B / C and C)
  • Vocational college Deutzer Freiheit, Cologne-Deutz, Eumeniusstr. 4 (stairwell building A)
  • former Ursula- u. Hermann-Josef House / Children's Home Cologne-Sülz (staircase, building Münstereifeler Str., 1960s) - demolished
  • Ev. Community center, Hückelhoven

Works of art in public buildings

literature

  • Peter Bergthaller: Glass painting in Cologne churches - artists and works 1945–2012. B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-87448-367-4 , p. 9 (illustration), p. 238–242, p. 290.
  • Werner Schäfke : Cologne - Two millennia of history, art and culture on the Rhine. DuMont Reiseverlag, 1998, ISBN 3-7701-4368-X , p. 143.
  • The church of the sculptor Josef Rikus in the university community in Cologne. Series of publications by the Center for Patristic Spirituality KOINONIA in the Archdiocese of Cologne. published by Wilhelm Nyssen, Luthe-Druck, Cologne 1993, reproduction of the text supplemented by old postcard motifs online (PDF file; 413 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 951 from June 6, 1973, registry office Cologne old town. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://www.kaos-archiv.de/pages/fr_kunst_por.htm
  3. ^ Werner Schäfke: Cologne: two millennia of history, art and culture on the Rhine. DuMont Reiseverlag, 1998, ISBN 3-7701-4368-X , page 143 ( Google book )
  4. ^ Peter Bergthaller: Glass painting in Cologne churches - artists and works 1945–2012. B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-87448-367-4 , p. 9 illustration, p. 238–242.
  5. ↑ The Church of the University Community in Cologne ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2010 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. (PDF; 423 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gemeinden.erzbistum-koeln.de
  6. ^ Peter Bergthaller: Glass painting in Cologne churches - artists and works 1945-2012, 2013, B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach, ISBN 978-3-87448-367-4 , pp. 238–242
  7. ↑ http://www.glasmalerei-ev.de/pages/b1666/b1666.shtml
personal data
SURNAME Thonett, Will
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thonett, Wilhelm (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1973
Place of death Cologne