Henning van der Heide

Henning von der Heyde, (also called " van der Heide ), ( * before 1487; † after 1520 ) was a German sculptor and painter.

Life

Henning von der Heyde is for Lübeck for the aforementioned period in records, also detected by real estate. He was a student of the Lübeck carver Bernt Notke. V. d Heyde worked for the St. - Jürgen- Hospital and 1513 Older man in the painter.

Works

The created in 3/4 Format St. Jürgen ( St. George ) - group of sculptures represents St. George and the Princess. It had been originally created for the old St. Lübeck Jürgen Chapel and is located in St. Anne Convent of Lübeck Museum of Art and Cultural History. The dragon is a substitute of 1619th During the reign Jürgen Smudge Wevers chapel and infirmary were devastated and looted on 14 October 1534 by incited supporters of the mayor, with the majority of the artworks and furnishings destroyed and the building itself was badly damaged. The time already perceived as valuable St. Jürgen- state image could previously be brought to safety, but had to leave the dragon of the Heydes, which was destroyed because of it. In the years 1540-1542 the church and infirmary were prepared again. The statue of Saint George was found in 1541 with other art objects in the estate of the former councilor Johann Senge Take again, restored and brought back to its old location; the carver Hinrich Wittekop made ​​in 1619 to a replacement for the lost dragon, but in proportion to the other figures of the group became clearly too small. The St. Jürgen- statue was in 1646 transferred to the new chapel, but then felt too old-fashioned and unsuitable for the new building. Was stored it on the attic, where it was only rediscovered in 1861. The artwork was taken to St. Catherine's Church, and the preservationists Carl Julius Milde performed the restoration. Since 1915 it is located in the St. Annen Museum.

A survey created by the St. John Heyde sculpture is located in St. Mary 's Church in Lübeck.

His workshop are Attributed to the preserved parts of a Schnitzaltars in the Marienkirche Plau am See.

Henning von der Heyde is also known as the creator of the altar of the Church of Brændekilde and sculptures in the Kuressaare Episcopal Castle, which originally stood in the church of Kaarma, as well as the creator of a sculpture of St. Jerome in the Abbey Church of Vadstena and a head of John the Baptist from the Church of Norrby in Uppland, which today is located in the State Historical Museum in Stockholm ..

Agents

The workshops of the late Middle Ages in Lübeck came in their mode of production, not without a large number of agents from which their own handwriting for art historians on the basis of very distinct characteristics can be assigned. The efficient among them made ​​partially independent. With von der Heyde be brought as his assistant at:

  • The sculptor of the altar of Arboga,
  • The master of the altar Schlutup
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