Alois Plum

Plum has been active since the 1950s and his work decorates hundreds of churches and public buildings in Germany.

He has created many characteristic stained glass windows in churches renovated or rebuilt after the destruction of World War II, and is especially noted for his reinterpretation of historic sacred space[1] and his integration of glass and architecture with careful attention to the liturgical function of his art.

Alois Plum was trained at the Landeskunstschule in Mainz from 1951 to 1955, and spent a summer studying in Salzburg with Oskar Kokoschka.

Sometimes the themes are dictated, sometimes he is free to choose, in which case Plum decided between figurative or symbolical representations.

[2] In 2010, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz, praised Plum for his art and the service it performs to the greater good, in a book that explains the Catholic creed and uses Plum's stained glass for illustrating elements of the creed.