KARL MARTIN HARTMANN
The windows in Kalkar made Hartmann internationally known and, after initial criticism, were appreciated by many glass painting experts.
Karl-Martin Hartmann (born September 14, 1948 in Wiesbaden) is a German artist best known for his photographs and stained glass.
Karl Martin Hartmann was born in Wiesbaden and graduated from the Gutenberg School there. ...After studying microbiology from 1968 to 1975 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, from which he graduated as a biologist, he studied art from 1979 to 1985 with Johannes Schreiter and Christian Kruck at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He is married to the artist Kerstin Jeckel and lives in Wiesbaden.
His life
- 1948
Born in Wiesbaden and graduated from the Gutenberg School there. - 1968 - 1975
Studied microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. - 1979 - 1985
Studied art with Johannes Schreiter and Christian Kruck at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. - von 1984
Studio/Workshop together with Kerstin Jeckel, studio exhibitions, Open Studio Days with Kerstin Jeckel. - 1989
Several windows in the monastery Gerleve in Billerbeck / church windows in the church St. Martinus in Greven. - 1993-1994
Windows in the Mariendom in Linz. - 1994
Hartmann initiated the project of a red glass stele for tolerance, of which dozens have since been erected worldwide by a non-profit association founded especially for this purpose, among others in Braunschweig, Geisenheim, Kfar Saba, Bethlehem, Wroclaw, The Hague, Tallinn, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa and in the US state of Wisconsin. - 1998
Church windows in the Holy Spirit Church in Düsseldorf. - 2000-2020
22 new windows in the gothic church St. Nicolai in Kalkar. - von 2004
New windows for the city parish church St. Nikolaus in Rosenheim. - 2007-2010
Temporarily installed a red glass window in the ruins of the gothic Werner Chapel in Bacharach to draw attention to the problematic history of the building and to set a sign for tolerance. - 2010
Memorial for the victims of the ice skating rink in Bad Reichenhall that collapsed in 2006. - 2011
Together with his wife, Hartmann won the competition to redesign the Faulbrunnen at the Platz der Deutschen Einheit in Wiesbaden. - 2012
Three new windows in the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden. - 2017
Kunsthaus Wiesbaden showed Hartmann's extensive photographic oeuvre, which includes numerous rubber prints, for the first time in a double exhibition with his wife's work. - 2017/2018
Academy project of the IGS Jawlensky, Wiesbaden with Elena Hartmann and 11 pupils*. - 2021
Became known that Hartmann, along with Katharina Grosse, Tony Cragg, and MadC, is one of four artists commissioned to create artworks that will be part of the museum's architecture for the new Reinhard Ernst Museum in Wiesbaden, which will be built by 2022, designed by Fumihiko Maki.