Georg Meistermann

Georg Meister Mann ( born June 16, 1911 in Solingen, † June 12, 1990 in Cologne ) was a German painter, draftsman and graphic artist. He created over a thousand glass window at approximately 250 locations in Europe.

Meistermann taught as a professor at the Städel School in Frankfurt, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Dusseldorf Art Academy and was from 1965 to 1972 President of the German Association of Artists.

Life and work

In the Lower Sixth Meistermann left school to study from 1930 to 1933 three winter semester at the Dusseldorf Art Academy at Werner Heuser, Heinrich Nauen and Ewald Mataré. During the Nazi era, he had to drop out of college and was forbidden to exhibit. He taught himself further and then worked as a freelance teacher of drawing. Starting from Spätkubismus and influenced by Alfred Manessier, he developed an increasingly abstract style. In addition to paintings, portraits and murals designed Meistermann since 1937 mainly ecclesiastical and secular stained glass windows. His first glass windows created in 1938 in St. Engelbert, Solingen. They were destroyed in the Second World War, as well as many of his early paintings.

After the war took place in 1946 his first solo exhibition in the " studio" of the Municipal Museum Wuppertal. In 1947 he married the psychoanalyst Edeltrud Meistermann Seeger ( 1906-1999 ). Meistermann moved to Cologne in 1949. In the same year he designed five windows for St. Mark's in Wittlich, his first major church order. He joined the newly founded German Association of Artists. In 1952 he designed the glass wall WDR in Cologne.

The 240 sqm large glass wall for St. Kilian, Schweinfurt, was 1953. Was followed by the appointment to the Städel School in Frankfurt. In 1954 Meistermann created two groundbreaking works: The Fresco altar mural for St. Alphonsus, Würzburg and four staircase window with the theme " The Horsemen of the Apocalypse " for the Old Town Hall about Wittlich, later George Masterpiece Mann Museum. The participation in the documenta in 1955, he was appointed to the Dusseldorf Art Academy.

The first abstract design in the sacral area in Germany was founded in 1957 with the almost 300 m² large glass wall of Bottrop Holy Cross Church. He participated in the documenta II in Kassel. 1959/1960 was designed by the artist, the window wall " The Good Shepherd - The eternal light " for the Wittlicher cemetery chapel Castle Road. From 1960 he taught at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe. The somewhat controversial appointment was preceded by two years of tough negotiations, which can recognize the self-assessment of the artist. So Meistermann had it regardless comparatively opulent benefits and features about refused to let commit to a binding teaching load.

The altar fresco for the Memorial Church of the German Catholics in honor of the martyrs for the faith and conscience from the years 1933-1945 Maria Regina Martyrum in Berlin was established in 1963. Following year, he took a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In Wittlich his window was created with the " Risen Christ " in the cemetery chapel Trier highway. In the years 1967-1972 Meistermann served as president of the German Association of Artists. Seven other window created in Wittlich for the Hospital St. Wendelini. Meanwhile, this will be presented in part at the Georg - Meistermann Museum Wittlich.

The controversial oil painting " Colored Notes Biography of Chancellor Brandt " painted Meistermann 1969-1973. In 1974 he painted the fresco mural for the ZDF Mainz. With the State Prize of the State of Rhineland -Palatinate for " Kunst am Bau " he was awarded in 1975. In Rome he designed in 1976 four windows for the Campo Santo Teutonico. At the request of former Chancellor Willy Brandt he portrayed him in 1977 for the gallery, the Chancellor of the Federal Chancellery. The portrait was rejected by Chancellor Kohl. The original portrait is now on display at the Willy -Brandt- Forum in Unkel. When his religious Testament and coronation of his life working Meistermann refers to the redesign of St. Gereon Cologne in 1979 to 1986. A survey exhibition in the Germanic National Museum Nuremberg took place in 1981. The last graphic works were created in cooperation with the printer Manfred Clement, Bonn. In the years 1989 to 1991 originated about 120 graphic works.

Honors

Posthumous Honors:

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A large part of the artistic heritage houses the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Wittlich. Further, in Wittlich in eleven buildings 40 stained glass by Georg Meister man to see, among other things, in the parish of St. Mark. These are documented in Scripture Wittlicher Jewels - Glass Paintings by Georg Meistermann in Wittlich.

Parts of the literary estate went in 1978 to the archive of Fine Arts (today the German art archive) in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.

Master 's estate is managed by his grandson, the art historian and historian Justinus Maria Calleen.

The copyrights of Georg Meister 's work for publications are managed by the collecting society Bild-Kunst (Bonn).

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