Franz Maidburg

Franz Maidburg (* around 1480/85 probably in Freiberg ; † 1533 in Freiberg) was a sculptor of the late Gothic and early Renaissance .

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Lower floor of the branch portal of the castle church in Chemnitz, 1525

Pulpit of St. Anne's Church in Annaberg-Buchholz, 1516

Gallery reliefs of St. Anne's Church in Annaberg-Buchholz, 1519–1522

After his apprenticeship and journeyman time around 1500 in Freiberg, Franz Maidburg went on a hike , where he got to know Tilman Riemenschneider's Würzburg workshop around 1510/12 . Maidburg can be traced back to Freiberg in 1513 when he created the so-called Monhauptsche Madonna in Freiberg Cathedral (today in the Annenkapelle).

After that he worked mainly in the St. Anne's Church in Annaberg (1516 pulpit, 1518 portal of the old sacristy , 1519–22 gallery reliefs).

After completing the work, he returned to Freiberg, from where in 1525 he created the north portal of the Benedictine monastery church (today the castle church ) in Chemnitz using four figures by Hans Wittens . During this time Maidburg can also be found in Komotau ( Chomutov ) in Bohemia.

It remains to be seen whether Maidburg actually created the sacrament house attributed to him in Cologne Cathedral . The works in Fürstenwalde that were erroneously assigned to him are demonstrably not from Maidburg . Likewise, the tomb of Uriel von Gemmingen in Mainz, also assigned to him, shows no echoes of the style of the Saxon sculptor.

literature

• Gisold Lammel: Franz Maidburg and the gallery reliefs in the Annenkirche in Annaberg. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 18/1972, pp. 171–179, ISSN  0486-8234
• Gisold Lammel: The age representations on the galleries of the Annenkirche Annaberg. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 20/1974, pp. 61-67, ISSN  0486-8234
• Gisold Lammel: Franz Maidburg in Annaberg and Freiberg. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 21/1975, pp. 115–119, ISSN  0486-8234
• Gisold Lammel: Pulpit reliefs and vestry portal in the Annenkirche in Annaberg. In: Ibid., Pp. 155-160; ders .: Discovery of this world. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 21/1975, pp. 249-257, ISSN  0486-8234
• Hans Burkhardt : Franz Maidburg. About the life and work of an important Saxon sculptor. Attempt a biography. Annaberg 1996, p. 8. = Forays through the history of the Upper Ore Mountains 5.
• Hartmut Krohm and Alexander Binder: The Sacrament House in St. Marien Cathedral in Fürstenwalde. Neuenhagen 2002.
• Katja Margarethe Mieth: The pulpit and the work of Franz Maidburg in Pirna. In: STURM, ALBRECHT (ed.): The town church of St. Marien zu Pirna. Pirna 2005, pp. 134-139.
• Uwe Richter: Franz Maidburg in Freiberg. New archive finds from a Freiberg sculptor from the late Gothic period. In: Mitteilungen des Freiberg Altertumsverein 101/2008, pp. 5–25.
• Yves Hoffmann: Franz Maidburg in Cologne, Mainz and Fürstenwalde? On the attributions of two sacraments in Cologne and Fürstenwalde as well as the epitaphs of Dietrich von Bülow in Fürstenwalde and Uriel von Gemmingen in Mainz. In: Mitteilungen des Freiberger Altertumsverein 101/2008, pp. 29–50 ( at academia.edu , accessed on April 14, 2017)

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