Egino weinert biography

Egino Günther Weinert's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 54 USD to 529 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.
Egino Weinert (1920 - 2012) was active/lived in Germany.
Announcing the sad event of German artist Egino Weinert's death on September 4th, we want to remember the artistic career and the difficult life of this great.

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Egino Weinert, Jesus walking on the water

Metal, 2nd half of the 20th century, 36 x 28,5 x 2,5 cm

Price: 25 000 CZK

Egino Günter Weinert (1920 – 2012)

Born on March 3, 1920 in Berlin, his great interest in art and faith began in childhood. He soon finds his way to worship god through art. He uses a naive form to distance himself from modern trends. At the age of 14, he entered the Benedictine monastery of Münzerschwarzach as a student, discovering the new artistic style of the Beuron school, created by Benedictine monks in the 19th century. (characterized by naturalism in colors and two-dimensional figures referring to medieval art). Weinert took this, combined it with naïve art, and created his own simplistic style. He becomes a restorer and studies sculpture and gold/silversmithing. Under pressure from the Nazi regime, he was forced to enlist in the navy. During the war, he reaches Venice, participates in the restoration of the Golden Panel (Italian: Pala d’Oro), the main altar in the Basilica di San Marco, where he was able to explore the old goldsmith techniques

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You can see a wonderful golden tabernacle and monstrance by Egino Weinert in the Gaukirche of Paderborn in Germany. You can pray his Stations of the Cross in the parish church of Strassen in Luxembourg or at St. Vincent de Paul’s in Huntington Beach, Calif. You can admire his decorations at a college in Portugal or a chapel in Cairo. There are many examples of his work scattered throughout Scandinavia. But you can also get a very good sense of his style and spirituality by visiting The Cloisters, the medieval division of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Treasury there boasts the central plaque of a late 12th-century Limoges cross in champlevé enamel and copper gilt. Against a brilliant blue, green and golden background, the chalk-white torso of the crucified Christ and his startlingly rose-colored face display a matchless serenity. The bold color, simplified forms and emotional immediacy are entirely in the key of an artist who now, in his 83rd year, has crafted nothing more proudly than crosses.

Born on March 3, 1920, in Berlin to devout Catholic parents as the eldes

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Resurrection

The German artist EGINO WEINERT died September 4, 2012. He devoted his life to creating some of the most unique and distinct pieces of liturgical art for spaces of worship around the world including the chapel of the Pontifical Academy of Sacred Music in Rome (which Bl. Pope John Paul II said was among the most beautiful he had ever consecrated). Collectors everywhere value Weinert's strong biblical images. Egino Weinert created all of his pieces solely with his left hand after losing his dominant right hand as a young man.

I first encountered his work through Hildegard Letbetter at Creator Mundi in Denver. (Creator Mundi imports Religious Art from Germany, France, and Italy. It is the official US importer of art from the German Abbey of Maria-Laach.The Stations of the Cross in our Chapel come from ML.) I used his St. Hildegard for my 25th jubilee card. We all have medallions of his to put on the top of our coffins. I have 2: one of St. Hildegard for inside and one of the Good Shepherd for outside.

St. Hildegard

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