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Hans Grohs
The Genesis Windows
1927-28
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892 – 1981
The Genesis Window 1926/1927
The Karton design of the Genesis window was exhibited at the
Lehrter Bahnhof Exhibition in Berlin, Germany 1926. The
Stained Glass rendering of this window was exhibited at the
World Fair in Chicago, Ill., USA 1934 with Kuball Stained Glass
Company, Hamburg. Initially this window was a commission by
a church in North-Germany. The finished 16 panels were not
accepted when submitted. On a black and white photograph in
the Hans Grohs archive is a handwritten and signed note by the
artist, stating: “Intrigues prevented acceptance”. The art of Hans
Friedrich Grohs, 1892 – 1981, became subject to the political
confiscation raids in 1937 and was stamped: “DEGENERATE”.
The window survived buried under the floorboards of a barn
from 1937 to 1946. Hans Grohs recovered it undamaged.
Copyright 1981, the Frauken Grohs Collinson – Grohs Collection Trust
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. Now the earth
was formless and empty, darkness was
over the surface of the deep, and the
Spirit of God was hovering over the
waters.
Genesis 1:1-2
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• And God said, “Let there be light,” and
there was light.
Genesis 1:3
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
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The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• And God said, “Let there be an expanse
between the waters to separate water
from water.” God called the expanse
“sky.” God called the dry ground “land”
and the gathered waters he called
“seas.”
Genesis 1:6, 8, 10
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• Then God said, “Let the land produce
vegetation: seed-bearing plants and
trees on the land that bear fruit with
seed in it, according to their various
kinds.”
Genesis 1:11
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• And God said, “Let there be lights in the
expanse of the sky to separate the day
from the night, and let them serve as
signs to mark seasons and days and
years, and let them be lights in the
expanse of the sky to give light on the
earth.”
Genesis 1:14-15
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• God set them in the expanse of the sky
to give light on the earth, to govern the
day and the night, and to separate light
from darkness.
Genesis 1:17-18
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• So God created the great creatures of
the sea and every living and moving
thing with which the water teems,
according to their kinds...
Genesis 1:21
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• And God said, “Let the water teem with
living creatures, and let birds fly above
the earth across the expanse of the
sky.”
Genesis 1:20
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• And God said, “Let the land produce
living creatures according to their kinds:
livestock, creatures that move along the
ground, and wild animals, each
according to its kind.”
Genesis 1:24
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• “And to all the beasts of the earth and
all the birds of the air and all the
creatures that move on the ground-everything that has the breath of life in
it--I will give every green plant for food.”
Genesis 1:30
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• Then God said, “Let us make man in
our image, in our likeness, and let them
rule over the fish of the sea and the
birds of the air, over the livestock, over
all the earth, and over all the creatures
that move along the ground.” And the
Lord God formed man from the dust of
the ground and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life, and man became a
living being.
Genesis 1:26, 2:7
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• Then God said, “I give you every seedbearing plant on the face of the whole
earth and every tree that has fruit with
seed in it. They will be yours for food.”
Genesis 1:29
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• And the Lord God made all kinds of
trees grow out of the ground--trees that
were pleasing to the eye and good for
food. In the middle of the garden were
the tree of life and the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. And the
Lord God commanded the man, “You
are free to eat from any tree in the
garden; but you must not eat from the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
for when you eat of it you will surely
die.”
Genesis 2:9, 16-17
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• So the Lord God caused the man to fall
into a deep sleep; and while he was
sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs
and closed up the place with flesh. Then
the Lord God made a woman from the
rib he had taken out of the man, and he
brought her to the man. The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones and
flesh of my flesh; she shall be called
“woman,” for she was taken out of
man.”
Genesis 2:21-23
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• “You will not surely die,” the serpent
said to the woman. “For God knows that
when you eat of it your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil.” When the
woman saw that the fruit of the tree was
good for food and pleasing to the eye,
and also desirable for gaining wisdom,
she took some and ate it. She also gave
some to her husband, who was with her,
and he ate it.
Genesis 3:4-6
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
• “Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it all
the days of your life. It will produce
thorns and thistles for you, and you will
eat the plants of the field. By the sweat
of your brow you will eat your food until
you return to the ground, since from it
you were taken; for dust you are and to
dust you will return.”
Genesis 3:17-19
Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
Copyright 1981
The Frauken Grohs Collinson
Grohs Collection Trust
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Hans Friedrich Grohs 1892-1981
Genesis Window 1926/27
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Grohs Collection Trust
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