Marx Weiß

Marx White the Younger, Marx White Ballingen ( * before 1518 in Balingen, † February 25, 1580 in Lingen ) was a painter of the late Gothic period.

He comes from a family of painters Balinger. His father Marx White the Elder ( † after 1518) and his brother Joseph White ( * 1487 or the 1488, † 1568) was also a painter. His older brother Samson was Hofgerichtsprokurator in Rottweil. They moved in the vicinity of the Master of Messkirch, was confused with the Marx White in the past. Recent research has identified his brother with this. Secured attributable works are but not before.

Marx White is detectable as a painter since 1536, when he was in Württemberg services and had probably worked in Tübingen castle. In 1538 he married after the death of his first wife, in Balingen, from Rottweil derived Magdalena Dorn Fogel. In 1539, he painted an epitaph (now lost) for Count Christoph von Nellenburg - Wehrstein, which was located until 1858 in the Church of Empfingen. 1543 he moved to Rottweil. It is believed that he was involved in the decoration of the acquired there by Gottfried Werner von rooms house. One for the provost of Bischofszell, Hercules Göldlin, created and signed disc crack ( today in Zurich ) also dates from this year. From 1550, he lived in Überlingen. Among his works are the wall and ceiling painting in the late Gothic choir of the Cathedral of St. Mary and St. Mark's in central cell on the island of Reichenau ( 1555 and 1558 ) and a Schutzmantelmadonna at the south entrance of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas ( Überlingen ). In 1560 he created a Kruzifikus for Meersburger Lady Care. In the Princely Collections of Donaueschingen were located until 2002, now in the Würth Collection, the 1559 painted for the monastery of St. Rubacker image. Wiborad, and two, painted 1567-1573 triptychs of Meßkircher Ablachkirche. There are stylistic similarities between the murals on the Wildenstein Castle and the Überlinger Council office.