Ivo Schaible


Father Ivo Schaible SDS, born Josef Schaible was a German Catholic priest and artist.

Life

Ivo Schaible was born Josef Schaible in the Upper Swabian town of Baustetten, today a part of Laupheim, Baden-Württemberg. At the age of eleven, he went to a boarding school run by the Salvatorian Order, also known as the Society of the Divine Saviour, in Lochau near Bregenz on Lake Constance. On taking his Orders he became known as Ivo Schaible. After his ordination into the priesthood in 1939, he was conscripted as a chaplain into the German Armed Forces. He was captured and spent some time in a prisoner of war camp. At the end of the Second World War, he got permission from his Order to study art. He attended the Munich Academy of Fine Arts between 1946 and 1951 and studied under Franz Nagel. In 1951, on graduating from the Academy he was sent by his Order to Bogota, Colombia as an artist and missionary and where he stayed until 1964. During his time in Colombia, he was responsible for designing and creating all the religious artwork for several churches including stained glass windows, paintings, tabernacle and sculptures. His artistic oeuvre and interests flourished during his time in Colombia, where photographed, painted secular landscapes and portraits. He was also the assisting artist on several scientific research expeditions focused on insects in the jungle. He was renowned for travelling with his Hasselblad camera and always wearing a typical Colombian hat called a ‘Sombrero Vueltiao’.
Schaible returned to Munich in 1964 to live and work in the monastery and parish church. He continued to work as an artist for the Salvatorians creating paintings, sculptures, mosaics and stained glass windows for churches in southern Germany and Austria. His art studio is now a museum at St. Willibald church complex in Munich.
Schaible died on 13 September 1990 in Munich. The requiem took place on 19 September 1990 and was celebrated in the church of St. Willibald in Munich by Emil Stehle., the bishop of Santo Domingo de los Colorados in Ecuador. A room is dedicated to Ivo Schaible in the Museum of the History of Christians and Jews in Laupheim, Germany.

Work

List of works by E. Schäll:

Bronze

Stained glass windows

Other

Awards

Published by Hera and Richard Schahl video production, Grünwald, Germany.
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