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Alois Plum
Alois Plum Biography, career
Birth name Alois Johannes Plum Alois Plum was born in 1935, the son of Josef Plum (d.
Born 1935 (1935) 1988), who is mainly known for designing ecclesiastical
Mainz, Germany paraments and especially robes and mitres. Josef Plum
was also a painter and graphic artist, noted for his reli-
Nationality German
gious imagery. Alois Plum was trained at the Landeskun-
Field Stained glass, Ceramics, Painting stschule in Mainz from 1951 to 1955, and spent a summer
studying in Salzburg with Oskar Kokoschka. From 1955
to 1957 he studied with Georg Meistermann at the Kun-
stakademie Düsseldorf, and since 1957 has worked inde-
pendently in Mainz.[2] His first work as a stained glass
artist was executed in 1954, in the parish church in
Niederrœdern. A notable early work was a mosaic of the
Stations of the Cross in Steinheim.[3] Perhaps his largest
work to date can be found in the Worms Cathedral, for
which he designed, over three decades, a large number
of stained glass windows; the earlier windows (dating to
1911) had been destroyed by allied bombing in 1943.[4]
Plum’s assignments come from all over Germany.
Sometimes the themes are dictated, sometimes he is free
to choose, in which case Plum decided between figurative
or symbolical representations. He is usually free in his
choice of material, and his oeuvre includes works in
many different materials, including traditional stained
glass (set in lead), glass set in concrete (Plum uses two
different kinds: "Dallglas," an opaque float glass, and
"Antikglass," a handblown glass),[3] and glass brick.[2]
In 2010, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz,
praised Plum for his art and the service it performs to the
greater good, in a book that explains the Catholic creed
and uses Plum’s stained glass for illustrating elements of
the creed.[5][6]
Notable works
Stained glass windows by Alois Plum in St. Martin Church,
Kaiserslautern.
Alois Johannes Plum (born Mainz, 2 March 1935) is
an artist working in Mainz, Germany, who has acquired
a national reputation for his stained glass, his paintings
(esp. murals), and his plastic art. Active since the 1950s,
his work decorates hundreds of churches and public
buildings in Germany. He has created many characteris-
tic stained glass windows in churches renovated or re-
built after the destruction of World War II, and is es-
pecially noted for his reinterpretation of historic sacred
space[1] and his integration of glass and architecture with Two modern saints: Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe; stained
careful attention to the liturgical function of his art. [2] glass by Alois Plum in the Herz Jesu church, Kassel.
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• Blessed Virgin Mary, relief, Mainz-Weisenau, 1954 http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/
(rest. 2004).[7] objekt.php3?artikel_id=1644437. Retrieved
• Stained glass windows, St. Bartholomew church, 2009-06-22.
Saulheim, 1957.[1][8] [8] Neugebauer, Anton. "Die St. Bartholomäus Kirche
• Mural behind altar, Lutherkirche, Köln, 1963, for in Nieder-Saulheim". Roman Catholic Diocese of
newly-built protestant church designed by Otto Mainz. http://www.bistummainz.de/pfarreien/
Vogel.[2] dekanat-alzey/gemeinden/saulh/saulheim/
• Stained glass windows and glass wall in St. index.html. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
Christopher church, Mainz (destroyed in WW2, [9] "Worms in history: an overview of the
partly rebuilt as a monument), 1964[1] monuments". Worms City. http://www.worms-
• Stained glass windows, Worms Cathedral, Worms, city.de/index.htm?/english/history.html.
1966-1995.[4][9] Includes nineteen windows in the Retrieved 2009-06-22.
clerestory, ten in the ambulatory, and thirteen in the [10] Böcher, Otto (1998). Die Liebfrauenkirche in Worms
nave, among others, adding a "highly personal und ihre Fenster. Neuss. ISBN 3-88094-830-5.
interpretation" to the church."[2][10] Esp. notable is [11] Ekkart Sauser (1997). Bautz, Traugott. ed (in
the "Valentine window" (1978), dedicated to Saint German). Valentin von Terni. Biographisch-
Valentine of Terni.[11] Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 12 12.
• Mural, Sankt Kilian church in Mainz-Kostheim, Herzberg. cols. 1051–1055. ISBN 3-88309-068-9.
1984.[12] http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/v/
• Stained glass windows, Mariae Himmelfahrt church, valentin_b_v_t.shtml.
Mainz-Weisenau, 1965-2005.[13][14] [12] Wirth, Helmut (2005-04-06). "Entdeckungsreise
• Stained glass windows, Herz-Jesu church, in Mainz- durch Kulturschätze". Main Rheiner.
Mombach, 1970.[15] http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/
objekt.php3?artikel_id=1848692. Retrieved
See also [13]
2009-06-22.
"Bildergalerie: Fenster, Bilder & Skulpturen".
• Christian art http://www.pfarrei-weisenau.de/Bildergalerie.
Retrieved 2009-06-24.
References [14] Dörrlamm, Rolf (1993). "Alois Plums
Kirchenfenster". MAINZ, Vierteljahreshefte für Kultur,
[1] ^ Custodis, Paul Georg (2006). "Botschaften in Glas: Politik, Wirtschaft, Geschichte 4 (3): 63–66.
Alois Plum rückt Sakralbauten ins rechte Licht". [15] Nikolay, Jürgen; Ernst Adam (2004). Mainzer
Mainz 26 (2): 112–117. p. 112, 114. Kirchenführer. Leinpfad. pp. 200. ISBN 3937782184.
[2] ^ Custodis, Paul Georg (2008). "Der Mainzer
Künstler Alois Plum". Das Münster 61 (2): 111–114.
ISSN 0027-299X. External links
[3] ^ Böcker, Charlotte (1987). "Jubelndes Farbspiel • Alois Plum’s website
und strenges Ornament: Seit Generationen Persondata
christliche Kunst im Hause Plum". Glaube und
Name Plum, Alois
Leben.
[4] ^ "Die Fenster der Liebfrauenkirche". Katholische Alternative names
Pfarrgemeinde Liebfrauen Worms. 2005. Short description
http://www.liebfrauen-worms.de/gemeinde/ Date of birth 1935-03-02
kirche/fenster.php. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
[5] Lehmann, Karl (2010). "Grußwort". In Plum, Anne- Place of birth Mainz, Germany
Madeleine. Glauben im Licht der Offenbarung. Date of death
Pneuma. pp. 3–4. ISBN 9783942013055. Place of death
[6] Plum, Anne-Madeleine. "Glauben im Licht der
Offenbarung". Pneuma. http://www.pneuma-
verlag.de/Leseprobe/lichtderoffenbarung.pdf.
Retrieved 2011-03-02.
[7] Wirth, Helmut (2004-10-12). "Marien-Relief ist
aufpoliert: Weisenauer Hausbesitzer engagiert
Künstler nach 50 Jahren erneut". Main Rheiner.
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