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Chagall Windows at St. Stephan, Mainz

Chagall Windows at St. Stephan, Mainz

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Chagall Windows at St. Stephan, Mainz

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Location: Rhenish Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Mike 🇪🇺

July 15, 2017

The Catholic parish church Sankt Stephan in Mainz was founded in 990 by Archbishop Willigis on the highest point of the city.
Chagall window
The windows of St. Stephen's Church, which were designed from 1978 by Marc Chagall, who wanted them to be understood as a contribution to Jewish-German reconciliation, are unique in Germany. The then pastor of St. Stephan, Monsignor Klaus Mayer, won Chagall as an artist. By his death in 1985, Chagall created a total of nine windows for the front part of the church, depicting biblical figures and events against a background of various bright blue tones. One of the most famous scenes is the temptation of Adam and Eve in paradise. Chagall designed the windows and painted the black plumb bob by hand. These windows of St. Stephen are the last stained glass windows that Chagall created in his life. After his death, work on the remaining windows in St. Stephen was continued by Charles Marq, who had worked with Marc Chagall for 28 years as senior manager of the Jacques Simon glass workshop in Reims.

Source: excerpt from Wikipedia de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Stephan_(Mainz)

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Sandra Schwabach

July 26, 2022

From 1978 to 1985, Marc Chagall created nine windows for the east choir and transept of St. Stephen's. They are the only glass windows by the world-famous painter in Germany.

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Iris

June 25, 2023

All windows of St. Stephen's Church in Mainz were designed by Marc Chagall and bathe the entire church in blue light. Wonderful 🥰

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