Wolfgang Nickel (glass artist)

Wolfgang Nickel in his workshop

Wolfgang Nickel (born November 11, 1960 in Schmalkalden ) is a German glass artist, painter and graphic artist.

Life

Nickel studied painting / graphics at the Burg Giebichenstein Halle University of Art and Design . In 1987 he graduated with a diploma. The artist lives and works in Thuringia. He is a member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists and the Association of Visual Artists Thuringia.

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Nickel's activities include building-related arts, lead glazing, sandblasting and glass etching. He makes glass objects such as glass plates or glass pictures, but also church inventory such as altars, tabernacles, ambo, chairs and candlesticks. Since 1992 he has designed glass windows for over 35 churches, hospitals and other public institutions.

Churches

2015: St. Marien Bad Langensalza
2014: Evangelical Lutheran Parish Jena
2013: Schmalkalden Hospice Chapel
2013: Nikolaikirche Eisenach
2012: Cathedral of the Holy Cross Nordhausen
2012: Schmalkalden Hospice Chapel
2012: Nikolaikirche Eisenach
2011: St. Trinitatis Unterellen , Michaeliskirche Erfurt, Dreifaltigkeitskapelle, Steinbach-Hallenberg library
2010: Schmalkalden Hospice Chapel, Roßdorf Culture House
2009: Katharinenkirche Neipperg / Stuttgart; Propstei Zella Biosphere Reserve Rhön
2008: Severikirche Erfurt , Marienkapelle; St. Marien Bad Langensalza; Bad Salzungen cemetery chapel; Church pink; Ev.-Luth. St. Oswald Schnett Church
2007: Christ Church Rosa
2006: Michaeliskirche Erfurt ;
2005: St. Bonifatius Schlotheim
2004: Catholic Church in Ober Maßfeld; Eichhof Winterstein; Michaeliskirche Erfurt
2003: Catholic Church Waltershausen; Heimathaus Kleinenberg; Clinics of the Wetterau district Frankfurt / Friedberg
2002: Eichhof Winterstein; Heimathaus Kleinenberg; Elisabeth Church Eisenach ; Catholic Church of Ober Maßfeld; Heiligenstadt Mountain Monastery; Michaeliskirche Erfurt; Clinics of the Wetterau district Frankfurt / Friedberg
1997: Evang. Church surge
1996: St. Laurentius Church Eckardts; Evang. Schmalkalden-Weidebrunn Church
1995: Evang. Asbach Church

Hospitals

2006: Greiz District Hospital
2003: Clinics of the Wetterau district Frankfurt / Friedberg
2000: Ilmenau District Hospital
2000: Nordhausen District Hospital

Companies

2014 Schott AG Mainz
2001 SAT Waltershausen
1997 TEAG Erfurt
1997 Volksbank Suhl
1997 Sparkasse Meiningen

Private homes

Nickel works in private houses in Munich, Frankfurt and Kiel as well as in the United States of America (Boulder and Los Angeles).

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2016–17: Notre-Dame Cathedral in Chartres near Paris
2016: Schmalkalden, Wilhelmsburg Palace, pleasure gardens
2016: Schmalkalden, Wilhelmsburg Castle, treasures made of glass
2015: Saalfeld, Practice Dr. Barthels, poetry in glass
2011: Meiningen, Baumbachhaus Literature Museum
2010: Suhl, CCS gallery; Saalfeld
2006: Meiningen, Sparkasse Traumfänger
2005: Eisenach, Gallery W
2004: Erfurt, Michaeliskirche Rilke project ; Bad Salzungen, Haunscher Hof , Rilke project
2003: Zella-Mehlis, community center; Emsdetten, Practice Dr. Westermann
2001: Erfurt, Michaeliskirche book illustrations
1999: Sopron , Galerie Horvath u. Lukacs
1997: Eisenach, Galerie W; Schmalkalden, University of Applied Sciences ; Arlesheim , Switzerland
1996: Meiningen, Hotel Sächsischer Hof; Schmalkalden, Milan; Erfurt, TEAG
1995: Basel , exchange studio; Szentendre, picture gallery; Emsdetten , Practice Dr. Westermann; Eisenach , Wartburg
1994: Erfurt, Landesbank Hessen-Thuringia ; Schmalkalden, Wilhelmsburg Castle; Frankfurt am Main , Lufthansa air-plus
1993: Zella-Mehlis , community center; Schmalkalden, exhibition in the monastery garden
1992: Roßdorf (near Darmstadt) , museum; Fulda , Hypobank; Bad Salzungen , gallery
1991: Ballenstedt , gallery in the art cabinet; Recklinghausen , Kenkmannshof
1990: Ilmenau , Technical University; Suhl , gallery in Steinweg; Bremen , Public Insurance; Fürth , gallery cafe at the freedom; Ilmenau, Small Gallery
1988: Meiningen , State Museums, Elisabethenburg Palace ; Schmalkalden , Wilhelmsburg Castle

Group exhibitions

2012: documenta , Kassel
2011: Schmalkalden, FBF Gallery KunstStoffe in Ambivalenz
2011: Budapest, Magyar Alkotomüveszek Hasa
2009: Book Fair Mainz; Leipzig Book Fair
2008: Schmalkalden, FBF Foundation for Science and Art, MWS Energie-Mensch-Natur ; Leipzig Book Fair; Erfurt, Thuringia Hall artthuer
2006: Erfurt, Thüringenhalle artthuer
2005: Szentendre, Patak Csoport Decimus
2004: Erfurt, Thuringia Hall artthuer
2003: Holzwickede, Ophericke House Experience light
2000: Leipzig, Coburg, 25th Leipzig graphic exchange; Szentendre, art mill; Kassel, Kulturbahnhof; Erfurt, Thuringia Hall artthuer
1999: Schmalkalden, Wilhelmsburg Castle; Schmalkalden, District Office; Kleinsassen International Biennial New Watercolor ; Iszkaszentgyörgy, Pappenheim Castle
1998: Zella-Mehlis, international symposium change of location ; Traveling exhibition balances ; ERFURT, Angermuseum; Mulhouse; Meiningen, ADA Gallery; Bad Salzungen, District Office; ERFURT, Thuringia Hall artthuer
1996: Apolda, summer gallery; Zella-Mehlis, international symposium Myths III
1995: Basel, grant from the Merian Foundation; Zella-Mehlis, international symposium Mythen II ; Meiningen, Schloss Elisabethenburg Playrooms ; Bad Wildungen, spa museum; Potsdam, Sanssouci, graphic exhibition; Meiningen, Galerie ADA Annual exhibition of the Meiningen Art Initiative
1994: Potsdam, Sanssouci, graphic exhibition of the state palaces and gardens; Zella-Mehlis, international symposium Myths I
1993: Kleinsassen, art station; Sonneberg, toy museum; Berlin. Working grant from the Kulturfonds foundation
1992: Potsdam, Sanssouci, graphic exhibition of the state palaces and gardens; Rudolstadt, project music visual ; Berlin, working grant from the Kulturfonds Foundation; Erfurt, art auction, Sotheby’s
1991: Lauterbach, Museum, Thür. Insights
1990: Meiningen, new acquisitions by the State Museums; Berlin u. a., Art Union GmbH 100 selected graphics ; Potsdam, Sanssouci, graphic exhibition of the state palaces and gardens; Hofgeismar, art competition; Thuringian Forest - Reinhardswald; Recklinghausen, Kenkmannshof; Kiel, Galerie am Eichhof; Berlin, competition, homage à Lissitzky
1989: Suhl, Kulturbund, graphic portfolio on poetry by contemporary authors; Meiningen, office for architecture-related art, series of graphics for Thomas Müntzer; Leipzig, Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Homage à Hermann Glöckner I and III, participation in the portfolio edition; Potsdam, Sanssouci, graphic exhibition of the state palaces and gardens; Meiningen, Staatliche Museen The animal in art ; Suhl, district art exhibition
1988: Berlin a. a., 100 selected graphics of the GDR , sponsorship award of the state art trade; SUHL, Kunstkabinett, VBK candidates; Berlin, Moscow, diploma exhibition
1987: Kaltennordheim, internat. Pleinair