Wilhelm Teuwen

Wilhelm Teuwen (16 August 1908 – 21 August 1967) was a German artist best known for his stained glass work.

Biography Teuwen was born on 16 August 1908 in Anrath and since 1923 studied at the art school in Krefeld. After graduation in 1929, he enrolled to Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He studied there with Heinrich Campendonk and, after in 1933 Campendonk has been fired by the Nazis, with Heinrich Nauen, graduating in 1934. In Krefeld, he also met Johan Thorn Prikker, one of the pioneers of the modern stain glass, and this had an important influence on Teuwen's art.

In the end of the 1920s, the main medium used by Teuwen was woodcut, and he made prints in the style of German expressionism, but then he moved to stained glass. In 1932, he made his first big stain glass, the memorial to the fallen soldiers in World War I in Uedem. In 1937, he carried out the projects for the St. Remigius Church in Wittlaer and the Holy Cross Chapel in Vennheide. In the 1950s, Teuwen, still busy with stained glass, returned to painting and woodcut. His work of this decade demonstrates increasing influence of Italian Renaissance, most notably Michelangelo. In 1957, his first personal exhibition was held in Clemens-Sels-Museum in Neuss. There is also a street with this name in Willich, the city Anrath was merged in.