Anton Wortmann

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Anton Wortmann ( bl. 1686–1727 in Lübeck ) was a German church painter who worked in Lübeck.

Life

Wortmann's exact dates of life have not been passed down; Despite a sample that was found to be bad after a masterpiece had been submitted, he was admitted as a master by the painter's office in 1686 because he had undertaken to marry the impoverished widow of a colleague. After the death of the church painter Sylvester van Swolle in 1689, he is documented as a church painter at the Marienkirche in Lübeck until 1727 . In 1701 he made a true-to-life copy of the Lübeck dance of death in the north transept, which was made in 1463 and ascribed to the painter Bernt Notke , in the so-called dance of death chapel of St. Mary's Church. At the same time, the occasional poet Nathanael Schlott changed the texts under the frieze from Middle Low German to High German. The Lübeck dance of death was finally destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck in 1942 and only survives in numerous records.

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Pre-war recording of the Lübeck dance of death

Also in 1701 he restored the small panel painting of three chatting men of the late 15th century in the dance of death chapel , popularly known as the chatterbox in Lübeck , with three devil figures in the background under the banner "Lüg, Düwel lüg" (so-called church chatterbox ) under the one he added Title "Warning for chatting in churches"; the addition was removed during the next restoration by Carl Julius Milde in 1850. The picture also burned in 1942, so that a durable attribution is no longer possible due to the inadequate documentation based on a preserved photo by Johannes Nöhring .

In the course of the renovation work under the mayor and church director Anton Winckler , from 1705 to 1707 he painted the angels newly carved by the sculptor Hans Freese on the facade of the Great Organ of St. Mary's Church and re-gilded the facade.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eugen von Nottbeck: History and art monuments of the city of Reval . F. Kluge, Reval 1896, p. 74 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - With images of the copies in the Antonius Chapel of the St. Nicholas Church in Reval on the following pages).
  2. ↑ Uwe Albrecht (Ed.): Corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2: Hanseatic City of Lübeck. The works in the urban area. Ludwig, Kiel 2012, pp. 516/517 No. * 16.
  3. ^ Kerala J. Snyder : Dieterich Buxtehude: organist in Lübeck. Schirmer Books, New York 1987, ISBN 0-02-873080-1 . P. 88;
    Uwe Albrecht (Hrsg.): Corpus of the medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 2: Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Die Werke im Stadtgebiet , Ludwig, Kiel 2012, pp. 586–594 (p. 589) No. * 28.
personal data
SURNAME Wortmann, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church painter active in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 18th century
Place of death Lübeck