Language:
English
Pages:
115 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2014
Keywords:
Glasmalerei
;
Künstler
;
Ausstellung
Abstract:
‘Life and Art Through Stained Glass’ examines the artistic career of architect, painter, designer and stained glass innovator Roman Halter. His near 50-year career as an artist would, had circumstances been different, have been much more widely recognised, as his command of many crafts was significant and distinctive. Stained glass is an exact, technical, complicated, architectural art-form that merges engineered structures, on one hand, with both depth and balance of colour appropriate to its space, on the other. Like many architects, Halter could ably address the technical requirements, but it was his innate creativity and his talent as a visual artist that allowed him to move between disciplines and to join a select group of practitioners who are today recognised as pre-eminent in this field. His stained glass windows can be found in synagogues across London. In The Room of Prayer at Leo Baeck College he designed a series of small, brilliantly coloured squares of stained glass to decorate each window and designed and made part heart-shaped, part Menorah-shaped glass and aluminium windows for the ark containing the Torah. At the New North London Synagogue two tall, vertical, primary-coloured windows are inscribed in Hebrew, and at the North Western Reform Synagogue, eighteen monumental designs are intricately decorated with the theme of Life “Chai”, the Hebrew letters for the number 18. In The Central Synagogue an azure panorama of an idealised Jerusalem illuminates the stairwell mezzanine, whilst his commanding, prismatic Jacob Wrestling with the Angel stretches the capacity of stained glass design to new and near-abstract limits. In 1978 when this work was received it was considered an artistic step too far, but it has come to be recognised as a virtuoso work within this medium. After only seven years working in the discipline, in 1983 Halter began his three-year collaboration with Henry Moore, working on a blue stained glass window, Reclining Figure, which is one of the centrepieces of this exhibition.
URL:
http://www.benuri.org.uk/public/?event-details=45
