Georg Meistermann (1911-1990)


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Name (English): Georg Meistermann
Short name: Georg Meistermann
Year of birth: 1911
Year of death: 1990
Short Description: "From 1930, Meistermann studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Werner Heuser, Heinrich Nauen and Ewald Mataré, but in 1933 the Nazis condemned this sort of art, and he could not continue his studies. Therefore, he worked as an independent painter and art teacher in Solingen for some years.

Influenced by late Cubism and Alfred Manessier, he created abstract paintings, but he also produced portraits and wall paintings. Beginning in 1937 he made stained glass windows, immersing private, public and church rooms in colored light in an innovative manner, based on an interaction of color, form and line, for which he would become famous. "To bring the colour to floating, to detect meditative spaces and to conquer a depth of the painting directed towards transcendence has been his artistic programme." One example, installed in 1957, is to be found in Berlin´s Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche. In 1976, he designed four windows for the Collegio Teutonico, Rome. Another important work is his new design for St. Gereon´s Basilica, Cologne (1979-1986), which he called "my religious testament and climax of my lifework". The Stained Glass Association of America considers Meistermann "the most versatile German stained glass designer".[10]" - (en.wikipedia.org 31.10.2019)
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