Loy herring

Epitaph of Bishop Georg von Slatkonia in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna

Moritzbrunner Altar, 1548, Jura limestone, Bavarian National Museum

Loy Hering (* 1484/85 in Kaufbeuren ; † after June 1, 1554 in Eichstätt ) was a German sculptor of the Renaissance .

Life

He received his training from Hans Beierlein in Augsburg . Between 1511 and 1512 he settled in Eichstätt, where he, elected to the inner council in 1519, held the office of mayor several times (1523/24, 1527, 1533 and 1540) and was gradually given all municipal honorary posts. His great patron was the Eichstatt prince-bishop Gabriel von Eyb , who not only gave him orders himself, but also gave him orders from relatives. With his sons and journeymen, Hering ran one of the most fruitful artists' workshops of the German Renaissance and supplied almost the entire German-speaking area with his works, which were mainly hewn from Eichstätter Jura limestone.

Works (selection)

Crucifixion group, several epitaphs and grave slabs, in Eichstätt Cathedral , including the epitaph of Christoph von Pappenheim
Several epitaphs for members of the von Eyb noble family

Coat of arms stones of Eichstätt bishops made of Eichstätt marble, in the Hochstift Eichstätt

Epitaph for Wilhalm von Muhr, in the pilgrimage church of Bergen near Neuburg

Sacrament house in the parish church of St. Vitus in Kottingwörth

Mercy Seat of the Mauritius Altar in Moritzbrunn , today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich

Marble - epitaph for Friedrich the Elder , Margrave of Hohenzollern in Heilsbronn in Middle Franconia

Stone crucifix in the monastery church of the Franciscan - monastery in Schwaz in Tyrol

Epitaph for Schenk Philipp von Limpurg Speckfeld, in the Einersheimer Matthäuskirche

Memorial to Abbot Georg Truchseß von Wetzhausen in Auhausen , 1521

Sacrament house in the monastery church of Auhausen , 1521

Tomb of the Bamberg prince-bishop Georg III. Gift of Limpurg († 1522) in Bamberg Cathedral

Relief Last Judgment , Eichstätter Ostenfriedhof, 1536

Epitaph for Alexej I. Thurzo († 1543), in the parish church of St. Jakobus in Leutschau / Spiš (today Levoča / Slovakia)

Eiptaph for Margrave Georg the Pious of Brandenburg (1484–1543), in the former monastery church of Heilsbronn near Ansbach

Epitaph of Hans Sigmund Marschalk von Pappenheim († 1545), in the former Dominican monastery in Eichstätt (today Gabrieli-Gymnasium)

Tomb of Niklas Graf Salm after 1530 Votive Church in Vienna

Epitaph for Bishop Georg von Slatkonia before 1519, St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna

Epitaph for Jobst Truchseß von Wetzhausen 1524, Teutonic Order Church in Vienna

Wall grave of Margarethe von Eltz in 1519 in the Carmelite Church in Boppard

Fireplace stove with chiseled marble inlays by Count Palatine Friedrich II and coat of arms stones held by lions in the Count Palatine Castle in Neumarkt , around 1530

Building inscription on the castle in Bächingen an der Brenz , around 1531

Epitaph for Melchior von Stain in the Church of St. Martin in Jettingen-Scheppach

Epitaph for the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Konrad II von Thüngen († 1540) in the Würzburg Cathedral

literature

Franz Dietheuer: Hering, Loy. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 619 ( digitized version ).
Felix Mader: Loy Hering: A Contribution to the History of German Sculpture of the XVI. Century . Munich, 1905 online at commons
Peter Reindl: Loy Hering: On the reception of the Renaissance in southern Germany . - Basel, 1977 (= dissertation at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 1961; contains an illustrated catalog of Herings' works, his workshop and his sons)
Heinz Stafski: Loy Hering (approx. 1485 – after 1554). In: Gerhard Pfeiffer (Ed.): Fränkische Lebensbilder. Volume 3. Kommissionsverlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 1969, ( Publications of the Society for Franconian History, Series VII A. Volume 3), pp. 101-108.

Individual evidence

^ Reindl, Peter: Loy Hering on the reception of the Renaissance in southern Germany, Basel 1977
↑ Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 580 f.

Web links

Commons : Loy Herring - Collection of images, videos and audio files

500 years of Loy Hering in Eichstätt on YouTube

personal data
SURNAME	Herring, Loy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hering, Eligius; Hering, Leome; Herring, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Eichstätt sculptor of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH	1484 or 1485
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kaufbeuren
DATE OF DEATH	after June 1, 1564
Place of death	Eichstatt

[1] Reindl, Peter: Loy Hering on the reception of the Renaissance in southern Germany, Basel 1977

[2] Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 580 f.