diff --git a/src/App/Application.cpp b/src/App/Application.cpp
index b0214707a0..26eebff5e5 100644
--- a/src/App/Application.cpp
+++ b/src/App/Application.cpp
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@
 #include "OriginFeature.h"
 #include "Origin.h"
 #include "MaterialObject.h"
+#include "MaterialPy.h"
 #include "Expression.h"
 
 // If you stumble here, run the target "BuildExtractRevision" on Windows systems
@@ -233,6 +234,8 @@ Application::Application(std::map<std::string,std::string> &mConfig)
     Base::Interpreter().addType(&Base::RotationPy   ::Type,pBaseModule,"Rotation");
     Base::Interpreter().addType(&Base::AxisPy       ::Type,pBaseModule,"Axis");
 
+    Base::Interpreter().addType(&App::MaterialPy::Type, pAppModule, "Material");
+
     //insert Base and Console
     Py_INCREF(pBaseModule);
     PyModule_AddObject(pAppModule, "Base", pBaseModule);
diff --git a/src/App/MaterialPy.xml b/src/App/MaterialPy.xml
index 0697aa3d42..3007e54dc9 100644
--- a/src/App/MaterialPy.xml
+++ b/src/App/MaterialPy.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     Namespace="App"
     FatherInclude="Base/PyObjectBase.h"
     FatherNamespace="Base"
+    Constructor="true"
 		Delete="true">
 		<Documentation>
 			<Author Licence="LGPL" Name="Werner Mayer" EMail="wmayer@users.sourceforge.net" />
diff --git a/src/App/MaterialPyImp.cpp b/src/App/MaterialPyImp.cpp
index ef766334f9..cbae386dce 100644
--- a/src/App/MaterialPyImp.cpp
+++ b/src/App/MaterialPyImp.cpp
@@ -31,6 +31,54 @@
 
 using namespace App;
 
+PyObject *MaterialPy::PyMake(struct _typeobject *, PyObject *, PyObject *)  // Python wrapper
+{
+    // create a new instance of MaterialPy and the Twin object 
+    return new MaterialPy(new Material);
+}
+
+// constructor method
+int MaterialPy::PyInit(PyObject* args, PyObject* kwds)
+{
+    PyObject* diffuse = 0;
+    PyObject* ambient = 0;
+    PyObject* specular = 0;
+    PyObject* emissive = 0;
+    PyObject* shininess = 0;
+    PyObject* transpareny = 0;
+    static char* kwds_colors[] = { "DiffuseColor", "AmbientColor", "SpecularColor", "EmissiveColor", "Shininess", "Transparency", NULL };
+
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwds, "|OOOOOO", kwds_colors,
+        &diffuse, &ambient, &specular, &emissive, &shininess, &transpareny))
+        return -1;
+
+    if (diffuse) {
+        setDiffuseColor(Py::Tuple(diffuse));
+    }
+
+    if (ambient) {
+        setAmbientColor(Py::Tuple(ambient));
+    }
+
+    if (specular) {
+        setSpecularColor(Py::Tuple(specular));
+    }
+
+    if (emissive) {
+        setEmissiveColor(Py::Tuple(emissive));
+    }
+
+    if (shininess) {
+        setShininess(Py::Float(shininess));
+    }
+
+    if (transpareny) {
+        setTransparency(Py::Float(transpareny));
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
 // returns a string which represents the object e.g. when printed in python
 std::string MaterialPy::representation(void) const
 {