Niklaus Weckmann

Niklaus Weckmann ( interpretation of the first name and Nicholas) was a German sculptor in the period from 1481 to 1526 in Ulm. He first worked for the younger orders by Jörg Syrlin and developed his workshop in Ulm with time to set the tone southern German sculptor 's workshop. He is assigned to the Ulm School. More detailed survival data are not known.

  • 3.1 Early Works
  • 3.2 Mean phase
  • 3.3 Late Phase
  • 3.4 Lost Works

Rediscovery

The name Niklaus Weckmann was the art-historical research both in southern Germany as well as in the city of Ulm until the late 20th century is no longer known. So it was that many of his sculptures Jörg Syrlin were attributed to the younger. Since the scientific studies and publications related to his work, a dedicated exhibition in Stuttgart in 1993, we know that many once Syrlin ascribed sculptures were in fact from the workshop Niklaus Weckmann. More discovered sources corroborated the new results.

Niklaus Weckmann founded in Ulm, Germany in the late 15th century, on the eve of the Reformation there, his successful sculptor's workshop. She is there detectable to 1528. We know now of 600 obtained image works; an unknown number of lost, some are mentioned in written documents.

The academic supervisor of the Stuttgart exhibition go in the catalog assume that only ten percent of medieval art are preserved Weckmann workshop have therefore produced 6,000. This means that this workshop has created each year at least 70 works.

Weckmann regarded as subcontractors of Jörg Syrlin. While Syrlin as a carpenter cut the conversation box and narrowness of an altar and carved, he commissioned Weckmann and his workshop employees with sculpture and with the socket, and Ulmer painter with the panel paintings.

The " workshop Weckmann "

Assignment problems

Because the personal association with the Master Niklaus Weckmann is difficult in such a large operation and under such conditions of production, designate some museums (eg the Württemberg State Museum and the Ulmer Museum ) some of their corresponding exhibits with comments such as " from the workshop of Nicholas Weckmann "or" the workshop Weckmann attributed ". Many art historians (such as Barbara Maier- Lörcher ) assume that Weckmann had the largest -carving his time in Ulm. Modern research on Niklaus Weckmann thus came into roles that a notice was found both in the Ulmer tax books of the time, as well as individual works of art. (Peter and Paul in 1964 at the "Knights Stefan Gundelfingen " in the parish of St. discovered in Neufra on the Danube near Riedlingen ) " byldschnytzer, Mayster Nyklas " (Ulmer tax book ) and " Niclaus weckman, bildhawer ": It included the spellings are visible. It must be assumed in any case, the fact that it with its own personal style as well as a " workshop Weckmann " gave both the artist Niklaus Weckmann, which even produced Weckmann works of art with the master signature even after his death. These various "hands" apart hold on to concrete works of art, is difficult.

Foster son Erhart

For art history is interesting that Niklaus Weckmann 1506 also acts as guardian of a child carer of Michel Erhart. Of this it is deduced that the climate among the artists Ulmer was rather friendly at this time; where competition would be expected, there was a climate of mutual sustaining.

The stepson

After Weckmann death the workshop was for some time by the same name Weckmann stepson Niklaus Weckmann continued the younger.

Important works Weckmann

Early Works

The 17 characters of the west portal at the Ulm Munster are easily assign Weckmann and his workshop, because all standardized, typical building blocks and motifs found on them that appear in ever new variations and compositions in other sculptures Weckmann over again.

  • Before 1500: the remains of a crucifixion group in Ulm Wengen church.

Mean phase

  • 1500: Marienretable in Schwendihotel
  • 1500: Mary with children in the Erbacher Castle Church of St. Martin
  • 1510: St. Catherine of Alexandria, linden wood, old version leached; comes from the monastery Heggbach, today Ulmer Museum
  • 1511: High Altar in monastery Adelberg near Göppingen
  • 1513: Rother altar, formerly parish Sauldorf, then chapel in Roth at Meßkirch, since 1909 at the Reiss -Engelhorn- Museen Mannheim
  • , now issued Nativity and Adoration of the Magi, formerly parish Attenhofen ( White Horn ) in the Ulmer Museum: 1515

Late phase

Lost works

There have been preserved no major high altars of Niklaus Weckmann. Examples would have been:

  • Lost high altar of the church in Biberach an der Riss, during the iconoclasm of 1531
  • High altar of the monastery church in Ochsenhausen, remains in the Church of St. Blaise in Bellamont
  • Larger Altarschnitzwerke in the Church of St. Michael to Wengen ( Ulm)

Many works of Weckmann have also been dismantled and the centuries have survived as individual works.

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