Karl Matthäus Winter

Important works by Winter can also be found in the pilgrimage church of St. Katharina (Buschhoven) For which he himself gave some explanations: The work for St. Katharina began in 1968 with a dove of peace made from basalt lava on the outside of the foundation stone. In 1970, Karl Winter created the altar as a block of Estremos marble with apparently ornamental motifs based on emerging vegetative forms in a symbolic arrangement of numbers - three (trinity, divine), four (relating to the "whole" globe) and seven (perfection, completeness) . The "foliage grows together to form a tabletop to serve as a sacrificial altar". The sacrament stele from 1970 has the same ornamentation as the altar, but the vegetative forms are united in a common "crown", with the number three playing an important role here, based on the hexagonal plan (2 by 3). "With the ambo from 1972 there are many leaves,perhaps because the kingdom of God grows out of the little mustard seed of the Annunciation like a stately bush! "The simple bronze door of the tabernacle was changed ten years later at the request of the pastor, and the Eucharistic symbols - ears of corn and vines - worked in ivory have been added even if it was against his concept. The "housing" for the figure of Mary or the Stele made of the Italian stone "Pepperino rosso" with inlaid flowers from "Estramos", created in 1975, shows the rose bush ornamentation and thus takes the theme of "in addition, the Eucharistic symbols - ears of corn and vines - worked in ivory were added, even if it was against his concept. The "housing" for the figure of Mary or the Stele made of the Italian stone "Pepperino rosso" with inlaid flowers from "Estramos", created in 1975, shows the rose bush ornamentation and thus takes the theme of "in addition, the Eucharistic symbols - ears of corn and vines - worked in ivory were added, even if it was against his concept. The "housing" for the figure of Mary or the Stele made of the Italian stone "Pepperino rosso" with inlaid flowers from "Estramos", created in 1975, shows the rose bush ornamentation and thus takes the theme of "Rosa mystica ". In 1971, the sculptor Winter created the baptismal font in Estramos marble, which "is about the source of living water and shows that it overflows in abundance".

Karl Matthäus Winter married the goldsmith Marie Louise Perabo in 1957.

After finishing school in 1947, Karl Matthäus Winter began his artistic career through an apprenticeship with his father, the sculptor and ceramicist Adam Winter. The apprenticeship was followed in 1951 by a three-year course at the Landeskunstschule Mainz, with Emy Roeder among others. In 1954, he moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy and became a student of Ewald Mataré. He was good friends with the Mataré student Elmar Hillebrand and worked on various assignments with him, including the memorial for the former synagogue on the Lappenberg in Hildesheim. Since 1957 he lived and worked in Limburg an der Lahn.

Karl Matthäus Winter (24 December 1932, in Worms – 19 September 2012, in Limburg an der Lahn) was a German artist and sculptor. He created numerous sacred works of art as well as four statues for the new figure cycle on the Cologne Council Tower.