Michel Erhart

Michel Erhart, also: Michael Erhart (? * To 1440/45; † after 1522 in Ulm) was a noted sculptor and carver of the late Gothic period and has worked particularly in and around Ulm. He belongs to the Ulm School. The exact biographical data are unclear.

Life

Erhart came to his years of travel, which have led him to Constance, but also to the Netherlands, from about 1469 into the free imperial city of Ulm, in his work is shown from 1469 to 1522. He worked, as well as later his sons Gregor Erhart and Bernhard Erhart, in the workshop Syrlins Jörg the Elder. He then got himself the job, " etlich picture " to create for the high altar of the cathedral and had probably from 1474 own workshop with several companions.

Seems influenced stylistically Michel Erhart of Nicholas Gerhaert to be.

Works (selection)

To Erhart's most famous works include the safe cheeks busts of the choir stalls in the Ulmer Münster, commonly only Syrlin Jörg the Elder. be attributed.

• Employees at the choir stalls of the Ulmer Münster, 1469-1474
• Employees at the high altar of the Ulmer Münster, who fell victim to the Iconoclasm
• Bust of a young woman in the dress of the Burgundian court, inter alia, as the beautiful Ulmerin referred to in 1475
• Employees at the fish box fountain in Ulm, especially the Knights are attributed to him, in 1482
• Crucifix in the Besserer Chapel of the Minster, after 1490
• Shrine figures of Blaubeurer high altar in Blaubeuren Monastery, 1493
• Crucifix at St. Michael's Church in Schwäbisch Hall, 1494 (signed by name, is well established )
• Marie altar in Kaiserslautern, 1509
• Ravensburger Schutzmantelmadonna, 1480

The Blaubeurer high altar

The Blaubeurer high altar, created 1493-1494, is located in the choir of the church of the former Benedictine monastery of Blaubeuren. It has a height of nearly twelve meters and comes from the hand of the sculptor Michel Erhart Ulmer and his son Gregor Erhart, which moved in 1494 to Augsburg, where he probably died in 1540. Previously, he worked in the workshop of his father Ulmer. Recently, the plastic main work is attributed to the altar his father Michel.

The Blaubeurer altar is a change altar with two folding leaves, pairs and a predella. The outer wings, the outer sides of the inner wing and the Predellenflügel are painted. Only after opening all the plastic wing equipment comes into its own. In the predella Christ and the Apostles are depicted in carved half-figures, while in the center of the shrine vollplastisch is the Mother of God with the child on her arm standing on the crescent moon. Right next to her are John the Baptist and the Founder Benedict, on the left St. John the Evangelist and St. Scholastica, the founder of the female branch of the Benedictine order. The right wing altar shows the relief of the Nativity, on the left, the Adoration of the Magi is shown. In the central part of the conversation Tight Christ stands as the Man of Sorrows, next to him on each side an angel with instruments of the Passion. In the lateral conversation Engen are Mary and John and placed among them three busts of saints. The two separated images through the open inner wings on the left show the bishop and former Abbot Heinrich Fabri and right the portrait bust of the counts of Wuerttemberg, Eberhard im Bart.

The Blaubeurer altar combines sculpture, relief and painting each other, thereby demonstrating the characteristic of the German Schnitzaltars 1500.

Madonna and Jesus child

John the Baptist (right) and holy Benedict

John the Evangelist (left) and St. Scholastica