Nikolaus Gerhaert

Niclas Gerhaert van Leyden, and Nicolaus, Niclaes or Niklas Gerhaert or van Leyden (* 1430 in Leiden, † June 28, 1473 in Wiener Neustadt ) was a Dutch sculptor who has worked primarily in southern Central Europe.

Life and work

After artistic activity in Trier, Strasbourg and Passau, he was Emperor Frederick III. brought to Austria.

With its extraordinarily verräumlichenden and realistic sculpture believes he was formative in the southern German - Austrian area.

His earliest surviving work is the tomb of the Archbishop of Trier Jakob von Sierck from the year 1462 in Trier, Church of Our Lady. As a particular example of his artistic work applies the 1467 resulting stone crucifix, located since 1967 in the Collegiate Church of Baden -Baden. Until then, it was integrated into the former cemetery of the town of Baden -Baden. It embodies the new style forms, which earned Niclas Gerhaert van Leyden in the Upper Rhine sculpture. Niclas Gerhaert settled in Strasbourg, where he developed a huge effect. There, a half-length figure of a man, two busts from the portal of the old firm and a head fragment preserved from his hand. As the only preserved in the original context factory in Strasbourg, the epitaph of the prelate is to call Busnang in the Strasbourg Cathedral. It is in the aforementioned works all by stone figures, but Gerhaert also worked in wood. Gerhaerts style shaped the sculpture on the Upper Rhine for decades.

The main work Gerhaerts as a wood sculptor, the high altar of the cathedral of Constance, was lost in the Protestant iconoclasm in the 16th century. Get but the figures are an altarpiece in the church of St. George in Nördlingen. This is a carved walnut Crucifixion group in the Gothic style. The five high altar figures are from the year 1462.

The design for the pulpit of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna is to come from his successor.

Artist of the tomb of Frederick III. at St. Stephen's

At the court of Vienna, he was responsible for the production of Friedrich's tomb in the cathedral where he worked from 1467 until his death. This tomb is considered one of the most important sculptural works of art of the late Middle Ages and as important Gothic emperor tomb north of the Alps. As impressive feat applies touch in dealing with a particularly difficult -to-handle material: the spotted Adnet marble. The recent detailed work on the figures lasted until 1513th

Master of Dangolsheim Mother of God

Niclas van Leyden is now widely regarded as the creator of Dangolsheim Mother of God.

Works

Sibylle ( Bärbel von Ottenheim ), Strasbourg around 1460/65 ( Liebighaus, Frankfurt)

Prophet with a turban, possibly Jakob von Lichtenberg (Musee de l' Oeuvre Notre Dame, Strasbourg).

Man meditating, possibly self-portrait (Musee de l' Oeuvre Notre Dame, Strasbourg)

(attributed ) male head (Musee de l' Oeuvre Notre Dame, Strasbourg)

( Workshop) Bust of a face paralyzed man (Musee de l' Oeuvre Notre Dame, Strasbourg)