Word: meistermann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highways, buildings and bridges-an intricate quilting of glass that seems to vibrate beneath the viewer's feet while at the same time it soars above his head. In the Schweinfurt window, the huge teardrops of grace fall not as a gentle blessing but as a blessed force. Meistermann's windows provide not rest but ceaseless rhythm...
...story of Georg Meistermann's life under the Nazis follows the classic pattern of almost all of Germany's modern artists who were branded as decadent. He well remembers the night that he got back to his home in Solingen to find a heap of his paintings, which had been on exhibition, "standing in front of my door in the rain, having been thrown out of the gallery by the Brownshirts." But Meistermann's miseries had one positive twist. "In those days, my paintings reflected my darkened state of mind. They were full of heavy black lines...
Today, at 51, Meistermann is not only a first-rank painter but also Germany's master of the stained-glass window (sec opposite page). Though such artists as Matisse and Chagall in France, as well as Abraham Rattner in the U.S. and John Piper in Britain, have helped give this once-neglected art a new prestige, Meistermann is probably the most prolific designer of all. He has done dozens of windows for clubs, chapels, offices and public buildings all over West Germany...
...Meistermann regards architecture as the skeleton of the structure, his window's as the muscles and skin. "Modern architecture often tends to be utterly frugal, without fantasy or color," he says. "Man needs something human, a colorful element to break through such monotony. You cannot live with either water or des ert solely. Stained glass provides the living elements, the human touch...
Energy & Power. Actually, Meistermann's achievement is not so much in his human touch as in his feeling for energy, which he regards as a main characteristic of the world today. For a radio studio, he once tried to capture in visual terms the feeling of such phenomena as wave length, directional beams, high frequency; and behind all his designs there is always a sense of invisible power...