Jörg Syrlin the Elder

Jörg Syrlin the Elder ( * 1425 in Ulm, † 1491 ) was a German carpenter and sculptor. He is expected to Ulm School. His son Jörg Syrlin the Younger continued the workshop.

Work

The sculptor personality of Syrlin woke in 17-18. Century great interest on the population, and he was transfigured the prototype of a sculptor in the late Gothic period. Historical research to Dehio relativized this and interpreted as Syrlin joiner ends architects. Only later research subjected to a detailed iconographic analysis of the works that are no longer questioned the identity of the busts Syrlins in question. The image works Syrlins at Ulm choir stalls are divided into four levels, in poets and thinkers of antiquity, sibyls, figures of the Old and New Testament and in the canopy zone in Christ and Virgin Mary. The carved figures show him psychologically impressive character heads.

His most famous works are the so-called three- seat ( 1468-1469 ) and the choir stalls of Ulm Minster ( 1469-75 ), with originally 91 and now ( 2008) with 89 seats. The price of the choir was 1188 guilders. Two sculptures have not survived, the so-called Emperor chair for the visit of the same in 1473 and a predella with figures for an altarpiece that was paid 400 guilders. His shrine of the high altar (1473-1480) at the Minster was destroyed in the iconoclasm 1531. Only later he occupied himself with the stone sculpture. Evidence of the stone " fish box fountain" ( 1482 ) on the Town Hall Square in Ulm.

Other works

  • From evangelist born prie-dieu ( 1458 ) in the Ulmer Museum
  • Upper cabinet ( 1465), in the Ulmer Museum
  • Chandelier females in the Ulmer Museum
  • Reliquary bust in the Ulmer Museum
  • Boxwood statuette of a nasty old man in the Palace Museum in Frankfurt am Main
  • Statue of St.. Helena in the Castle Museum in Frankfurt am Main
  • Board in Fronaltar in Lorch monastery and the crucifix at Abtstuhl in the chapter house (both not preserved)

Life

Jörg Syrlin is the son of the carpenter Heinz (1412-1447), who came from Söflingen at Ulm and moved to Ulm. Other members of the family who had two branches, the Jörg and of Lienhardt. The family has probably branched to Basel, Old Town and Geislingen. Significant were the two Jörg Syrlin. Jörg Syrlin the Elder worked as a carpenter and created already in 1458 the first work of art, the wooden pew. He was married, and this is demonstrated that the Ulm Munster in 1498 he left behind a rock after his death in 1491 as his wife. It is assumed that the unnamed breast image at the choir stalls Syrlin and the opposite of Sybille von Erythä represents the individual facial features of his wife.

Pictures

Bust of Cicero

Hellespontic Sibylle

Tiburtian Sibylle

Canopy in the middle of the north side

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