Glass and Monumental Art
Nils Möller and Pontus Möller working on
a preliminary sketch for a glass painting for Munka Ljungby church.
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In 1955 Nils Möller was granted a culture stipendium by the newspapper Frihet. This came to have broad consequences in the artist's life. A trip to the city of Chartres some miles southwest of Paris was the immediate result. Once there he studied the great cathedral, one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture and which has unique glass paintings from the 13th century.
Left: "Light Wandering"
glass painting at Rebbelberga parish hall 1982, architectural glass 190x41 cm each.
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The meeting with glass paintings here and at other places in France awakened an interest that was to be lifelong for Nils Möller. The question is whether or not he engaged in facade climbing in order to come in direct contact with the painted glass!
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Above: "Dove" glass painting at Hjärnarps Church 1985, 120 cm in diameter.
Motifs: The Holy Ghost, Arch of Promise, Heavenly Light and Christogram.
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If you consider Nils Möller's body of art as a whole - and one must in order to understand it's individual units - you will immediately understand that glass painting was to intake a dominent place.
Left: "Fellowship"
Glass painting in Åvalla Parish Hall, Ängelholm, 1973, 3,5x2 m
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Apocalypse
triptych in oil, 1985 273x132 cm |
Happening in a flower-cup, 1972, 7.0 x 2.5 m
Polychrome relief in aluminium and wood
Ängelholm's City |
Nils Möller
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