page_title: Alois Plum
section_title: Notable works
hierarchical_section_title: Alois Plum / Notable works
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Heiligenfries mit Edith Stein, Maximilian Kolbe und Elisabeth von Thüringen; Glasmalerei von Alois Plum in der Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Kassel) English: Stained glass window by Alois Plum depicting Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe.
context_page_description: Alois Johannes Plum is an artist working in Mainz, Germany, who has acquired a national reputation for his stained glass, his paintings, and his plastic art. 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 and his integration of glass and architecture with careful attention to the liturgical function of his art.
context_section_description: Blessed Virgin Mary, relief, Mainz-Weisenau, 1954 (rest. 2004).
  Stained glass windows, St. Bartholomew church, Saulheim, 1957.
  Mural behind altar, Lutherkirche, Köln, 1963, for newly built protestant church designed by Otto Vogel.
  Stained glass windows and glass wall in St. Christoph, Mainz (destroyed in WW2, partly rebuilt as a monument), 1964
  Stained glass windows, Worms Cathedral, Worms, 1966-1995. Includes nineteen windows in the clerestory, ten in the ambulatory, and thirteen in the nave, among others, adding a "highly personal interpretation" to the church." Esp. notable is the "Valentine window" (1978), dedicated to Saint Valentine of Terni.
  Mural, Sankt Kilian church in Mainz-Kostheim, 1984.
  Stained glass windows, Mariae Himmelfahrt church, Mainz-Weisenau, 1965-2005.
  Stained glass windows, in Herz-Jesu-Kirche, in Mainz-Mombach, 1970.
caption: Two modern saints: Edith Stein and Maximilian Kolbe; stained glass by Alois Plum in the Herz Jesu church, Kassel.
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