ChurchoftheHolySepulchre
Native of Picardie, Alfred Manessier was considered, as soon as 1943, as a major ambassador of the abstract sacred
painting. The Museum of Abbeville hosts a painting named Saint Jérôme illustrating his early research on light...
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ChurchoftheHolySepulchre
Native of Picardie, Alfred Manessier was considered, as soon as 1943, as a major ambassador of the abstract sacred
painting. The Museum of Abbeville hosts a painting named Saint Jérôme illustrating his early research on light preceding
the glass creation that will be, from 1948, at the heart of his concerns
throughout his life. Between 1982 and 1993, the creation of the stainedglass windows of the church of the Holy
Sepulchre of Abbeville, town in which he grew
up, marked the conclusion of his masterpiece.
Alfred Manessier created around thirty series
of windows for churches and chapels from
1948 to 1993. During the 1948-1950s, he
created the first French non-figurative stainedglass windows in the Eglise des Bréseux
(church situated in the Doubs department
in France), then in Hem in the North of
France in 1957, in Germany (Cologne) in
1964 and in Bremen in 1966-1979, but also in
Pontarlier, Locronan, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in
the 1970-1980s and in Berlin and Frib
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