Marx knows

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Protective mantle Madonna at the Überlinger Münster, 1563

Marx Weiss the Younger , also Marx Weiss von Balingen (* before 1518 in Balingen ; † February 25, 1580 in Überlingen ) was a late Gothic painter .

He comes from a family of painters from Balingen. His father Marx Weiß the Elder († after 1518) and his brother Joseph Weiß (* 1487 or 1488; † 1568) were also painters. His older brother Samson was court procurator in Rottweil. They moved around the master of Messkirch , with whom Marx Weiß was confused in the past. Recent research identifies his brother with this one. However, there are no works that can be reliably attributed.

Marx Weiß is verifiable as a painter since 1536, when he was in the service of Württemberg and probably had worked in the Tübingen Castle . In 1538, after the death of his first wife, he married Magdalena Dornfogel from Rottweil in Balingen. In 1539 he paints an epitaph (lost today) for Count Christoph von Nellenburg-Wehrstein, which was in the church of Empfingen until 1858. In 1543 he moved to Rottweil. It is believed that he was involved in the painting of the house that Gottfried Werner von Zimmer bought there . A pane tear drawn and signed for the provost of Bischofszell, Hercules Göldlin (today in Zurich) also dates from this year. From 1550 he lived in Überlingen. His works include the wall and ceiling painting in the late Gothic choir of the minster St. Maria and Markus in Mittelzell on the island of Reichenau (1555 and 1558) and a protective cloak Madonna at the south entrance of the minster St. Nikolaus (Überlingen) . In 1560 he created a crucifix for the Meersburger Liebfrauenpflege. In the Princely Collections of Donaueschingen until 2002, now in the Würth Collection, there was the picture of St. Wiborad, as well as two winged altars of the Meßkirch Ablach Church, painted between 1567 and 1573. There are stylistic similarities between the wall paintings at Wildenstein Castle and the Überlinger Ratskanzlei.

literature

  • Heidrun Bucher-Schlichtenberger: Traces of artists in Balingen. In: 750 years of the city of Balingen. Balingen 2005, pp. 454-455.
  • Eckart Hannmann: The Balinger painters family white (15th / 16th century). In: The Zollernalb district. 2nd Edition. Stuttgart 1989, pp. 218-219.
  • Karl Obser : The Überlingen painter Marx Weiss († 1580) and his family. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine . 71, 1917, p. 131.
personal data
SURNAME White, Marx
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Know, Marx the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Late Gothic painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1518
PLACE OF BIRTH Balingen
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1580
Place of death Überlingen