Hans Gottfried Von Stockhausen: Architectural Stained Glass [German]

by Peter Schmitt

After 1945, the need to reconstruct old church windows presented artists with a new challenge. Stockhausen trusted primarily in "light that carries colour through a room and lets it become an immaterial force." This force, he believed, has the ability to help transcend borders, as in Ulm cathedral (1955 / 1956) where he, in 1986, preserved the memory of the sufferings in Treblinka, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen with his "Israel window." His "works...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: German
• ISBN: 3777488607
• ISBN13: 9783777488608
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.5" x 12.0"