Hans Multscher
Hans Multscher (* 1400 in Reichenhofen, today Leutkirch im Allgäu, † 1467 in Ulm ) was a German sculptor and painter.
Life
After studying in his native Allgäu he learned during his years of travel ( with Claus Sluter? ) The artistic innovations of Northern France and the Netherlands know. 1427 he was admitted as a free citizen in Ulm. In the same year he married the daughter Adelheid citizens Kitzingen. Multscher worked as a sculptor, painter and sculptor and maintained until his death in 1467 an extensive and reputable workshop. In this workshop worked among other things - with his own hand - his brother Heinrich Multscher with.
Importance
Among the large number of talented, mostly nameless artists of the 15th century stands out as Multscher strong personality who was able to develop continuously over decades on. He was a trailblazer in the entering of the Burgundian Netherlands to Germany realism, which should (eg Meister Francke, Stefan Lochner, Master Hartmann) replace the " soft style " of his contemporaries. In Wurzacher altar of 1437 (Berlin) for his realism emphasized ugliness increases; in the carved figures of Sterzinger altar (from 1456 ), however, he finds a large, cheerful and serious form again. The revolutionary had become a classic.
With his late work Multscher became the precursor for Jörg Syrlin ( the elderly), Michel Erhart, Gregor Erhart, Veit Stoss, Adam Kraft, Tilman Riemenschneider et al and is therefore considered early proponent and co-founder of the Ulm school.
" The gripping width of his emotional life was almost unique voltage ... It's a Faustian nature in him" ( Pinder, 1937).
Works
To 1429 he produced the " Man of Sorrows " at the west portal of the Ulmer Münster. In Iconoclasm ( 1531) probably lost and hardly can be reconstructed the figures of the so-called Karg- niche on the east wall of the right ( inside ) of Ulm Minster, originally a 1433 erected by order of the Karg family altar wall depicting the Annunciation. More altars Mult Schers are Landsberger Altar ( 1437), the Holy Cross altar Thaler (1450, Altheim at Riedlingen ) and the altar in Sterzing ( South Tyrol). In addition to the Sterzinger Mother of God the rich Hofer ( 1425), Landsberger and Bihlafinger are on sculptures still (as of 1455 ) received Madonnas further two angels from Sterzinger winged altar ( in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich ), the Grabmalvisierung for Duke Ludwig the Bearded Teten of Bavaria- Ingolstadt ( also based in Munich, BNM ) and the sculptures for the splendor of the window Ulm's town hall, known as the Kaiser group at the east window.
Honors
- Hans- Multscher school Leutkirch im Allgäu
- Hans- Multscher school Ulm