Johan Gregor van der Schardt

Johan Gregor van der Schardt (* around 1530 in or near Nijmegen, † probably November 30, 1591 at Uraniborg on Hven ) was a sculptor of the transitional period of the late Renaissance to Mannerism.

Life

Schardt's training stations are suspected in the Netherlands and in Italy. In Italy, he is associated with the environment of Andrea Palladio and mentioned by Giorgio Vasari appreciatively as a sculptor. In 1569 he got a call to the court of Emperor Maximilian II. In the imperial city of Nuremberg, he worked together with Wenzel Jamnitzer a table fountain for the court in Vienna ( 1571-76 ), of which four caryatids have obtained in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna are kept. In Nuremberg, created in 1570, the painted terracotta busts of the patrician pair Imhoff, who arrived from the Minutoli collection in the collection of today's Bode Museum in Berlin in the 19th century, also to February 2009 shows his Mercury in bronze from the J. Paul Getty Museum. A smaller Mercury can be found in the collections of the Landesmuseum Württemberg Both come from the Kunstkabinett Praun, which also included over one hundred reproductions of works of art of his time, the van der Schardt made ​​as miniatures. These replicas are now scattered in several major museums in Europe and North America. Well back to 1575, he worked together with other artists such as the Nuremberg Georg Labenwolf on Hven in the decoration of the castle Uraniborg of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe with. Remains of the architectural sculptures Schardt for Uraniborg are now in the Historical Collections of the University of Lund. 1577-79 were produced in Copenhagen his bronze busts of the Danish royal couple Frederick II and Sophie of Mecklenburg, which can be seen today at Rosenborg Castle. They were at the time of the Vienna Congress of King Frederick VI. acquired for the collection of the Danish kings. 1580 Schardt worked again for middle-class families in Nuremberg. After his return to Denmark in 1587 was a crucifixion relief for the altar of the Church of Kronborg Castle and a bust for the Hans van Steenwinckel the Elder. Designed Tomb of the Danish nobility Reichsratsstrasse Unlike Bing ( 1589 ) in the village church of Smedstorp in Skåne.

Also, his main works include a self-portrait in the form of a painted terracotta bust ( 1573) in possession of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Bust Willibald Imhoff

Bust Anna Imhoff, 1580, Bode Museum