Gabriel Loire

Gabriel Loire ( * April 21, 1904 in Pouancé, Anjou, † December 27, 1996 in Chartres ) was a French glass artist, painter and draftsman.

After studying in Angers he received in 1926 in the workshop of the painter Charles Lorin glass in Chartres its artistic and technical training. When he, now a partner, his training workshop In1936, he was contractually obliged to settle for ten years as an independent glass artist. During this time he supported himself and his family with changing work as a sculptor, ceramist, painter and illustrator. In 1946 he founded his own glass painting workshop in Lèves, a suburb of Chartres. Since the early 1960s, he worked with his son, Jacques, he 1971, the management of the workshop handed while he mainly devoted himself to the oil and gouache painting. He also worked again as a draftsman.

He created, especially in the fifties and sixties all over the world, especially in France and the USA, for more than 800 churches, occasionally also for secular buildings glass windows. Gabriel Loire is a pioneer and outstanding representative of the thick glass painting. Almost exclusively he did not use, as usual, since the Carolingian period, succinct in lead thin glass, but about two and a half inches thick thick glass ( dalle de verre ), which is fitting properly taken, poured in concrete. The refractions of hewn pieces of glass and the dark lineaments of concrete bridges give the stained glass your own effects of intense radiance.

Major works

  • The glass windows of the new Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin ( 1960-63; architect Egon Eiermann )
  • The stained glass windows of the Cathedral of Salisbury ( 1980)
  • The spiral window of Thanksgiving Chapel in Dallas, Texas (1975 /76 Architect: Philip Johnson)
  • The glass window in the tower Open Air Museum Hakone, Japan (1973 /74)
  • The glass window in the church of Notre -Dame de Consolation in Hyeres, southern France (1952 /53)
  • The glass window in the parish church of St. Barbara in Dudweiler
  • The glass window in the church of Notre- Dame au Cierge in Epinal, Lorraine (1958 /59)
  • The stained glass windows in the Christ Episcopal Church in Los Altos, California (1984 )
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