Anton Ramsler

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Anton Ramsler (* between 1560 and 1566 in Straubing ; † around March 11, 1607 in Tübingen ) was a Württemberg painter who lived and worked in Tübingen. He was the father of the painter Jacob Ramsler .

Martin Crusius
Georg Burckhardt
Johannes Brenz the Elder J.
Andreas Planner
Johannes Vischer
Balthasar Moser von Filseck (woodcut after a painting by Anton Ramsler)

Life

Anton Ramsler was a son of the stone carver and later painter Gerhard Ramsler , who came to Straubing from his Dutch homeland because of religion. Anton Ramsler first grew up in Straubing, probably from 1570 in Augsburg , where his family moved. According to his son Jacob, he came to Tübingen in 1580 - as an apprentice boy - at the instigation of the theologian Jakob Andreae . On July 11, 1586, he married Sibilla Brentel (* May 21, 1563) in Lauingen , a daughter of the famous Lauingen coat of arms painter Georg Brentel . It is likely that Ramsler previously worked as a journeyman at Brentel and therefore knew his daughter. In the same year 1586 Ramsler was officially registered as "Illuminista Augustanus", painter and citizen of Tübingen, where he lived until his death. After Johann Heinrich Füllmaurer, Ramsler was the second foreign artist to be registered in Tübingen - after a long break. After that, such matriculations were made more frequently. Apparently, Ramsler also found this enrollment to be a great success, which he proudly called himself “maller of the university of Tübingen” in a stud book preserved in Graz .

Ramsler was a very busy painter and is the author of one of the two groups of professor portraits that were created between 1588 and 1590 at the instigation of the philologist and historian Erhard Cellius and formed the beginning of the Tübingen professors' gallery . Since the portraits were not signed at that time, Ramsler's authorship was not known until the 20th century, especially since Cellius in his booklet Imagines professorum Tubingensium (1598) only named Hans Ulrich Alt as the author of the portraits created up to this point. Only after the publication of the diary of Martin Crusius , who in an entry from 1599 named Ramsler as the author of the portraits created at that time, doubts arose which could largely be dispelled by careful style analysis.

In addition to the portraits, Ramsler painted miniatures and coats of arms, especially in the family books, which were very fashionable at the time . Since 1582, the coats of arms in Tübingen family records show a very characteristic heraldic style, which is closely related to that of Georg Brentel in its large-scale shapes, strong colors and hearty, slightly gold-hollowed helmets in the form of tendrils. An entry by Anton Ramsler next to such a drawing of the coat of arms in a record book from 1587 allows this work to be attributed to him. Anton Ramsler apparently adopted this style of painting from his father-in-law. Also a miniature portrait of the Tübingen professor Johann Hochmann from 1582 in the family register is conspicuously identical in the painting style of the Lauingen painter and should also come from Ramsler. The numerous coats of arms and allegorical representations in this style are unequal in delicacy and preciousness of execution depending on the wealth and status or payment of the client. In addition to the coats of arms and miniature portraits, the studbooks contain surprisingly quick drawings, such as B. an elegant gentleman and a stooped old man juxtaposed with the painter's own entry from 1598 and a very fine, elegant Justitia in delicate colors.

Like Alt, Ramsler was not an artist of standing, but he was able to faithfully capture the facial expressions, appearance and demeanor of a large number of men who were important for the intellectual and political life of Württemberg at this time. The differences in style between Alt and Ramsler are very small. The style of the two is reminiscent of woodcuts, while Ramsler's pictures "are more graphically and neatly executed".

children

Ramsler probably had twelve children, eight of them sons. At least three of them became painters. In addition to Jacob (* 1587) who remained in Tübingen , his younger brother, Friedrich , lived in Urach and a second, Johannes , lived for a while as a journeyman in his mother's hometown of Lauingen. Only one son, Gerhard Anton, studied and became a pastor.

  • Jacob (1587–1635), painter
  • Friedrich (probably 1588 - after 1621), painter
  • Andreas (* 1589)
  • Johannes (probably 1590-1624), painter
  • Elias (* 1591; † abroad)
  • Barbara (1592–1653), ⚭ 1613 Martin Eiselin (1589–1664), court courier in Tübingen
  • Felicitas (* 1594). ⚭ 1623 Johannes Späth in Tübingen
  • Margareta (* 1598)
  • Agnes (* 1601)
  • Gerhard Anton (1603–1640), pastor
  • Abraham (* 1605; † abroad)
  • Vilosandro (?)

More famous works

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Buried March 14th.
  2. ↑ a b c Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings ... , pp. 207/208
  3. ↑ Reinhard H. Seitz: On the question of the Lauingen painter Georg Brentel . In: “Yearbook of the Historical Association Dillingen” LXI – LXIII, Dillingen-Donau 1961, p. 28 according to parish register
  4. ↑ The term "illuminista" can refer to his activity as a miniature and master book painter. (Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 184)
  5. ↑ Diarium Martini Crusii , Vol. 2: 1598–1599, ed. by Wilhelm Goez and E. Conrad, Tübingen: Laupp 1931
  6. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings ... , especially p. 215
  7. ↑ a b Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 184
  8. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 379
  9. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 180
  10. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer speaks of four sons who became painters, but he only mentions three first names.
  11. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings ... , p. 211
  12. ^ The path of life and suffering of M. Johann Gerhard Ramsler ... , supplement

literature

  • Life and suffering of M. Johann Gerhard Ramsler, Specials on Freudenstadt (1635–1703). The memoirs of a rural pastor from Württemberg . Edited by Uwe Jens Wandel, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1993, ISBN 3-17-012566-4 (= Living Past, 15), supplement
  • Werner Fleischhauer : Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1971
  • Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings of the Tübingen university portrait collection - a contribution to the history of painting of the late Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg . In: Werner Fleischhauer u. a .: New contributions to the history of the south-west of Germany. Festschrift for Max Miller , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1962, pp. 197–216

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personal data
SURNAME Ramsler, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramsler, Antoni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH between 1560 and 1566
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing
DATE OF DEATH around March 11, 1607
Place of death Tübingen