Apelles Schickhardt

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Apelles Schickhardt (born September 1, 1580 in Tübingen ; † November 20, 1610 ibid) was a Württemberg painter who lived in Tübingen. He was a son of the painter Hans Schickhardt and the stepson of Jacob Züberlin .

Fortuna (drawing in Johann Georg Nocker's family book, 1597)

Life

Apelles Schickhardt was the only son of Hans Schickhardt who survived childhood. It came from his second marriage to the much younger Ursula geb. Laubin, who was also a painter. He was still a boy when his father died, so he couldn't learn anything from him. Since his mother remarried, namely the painter Jacob Züberlin, Apelles was able to get training as a painter from his stepfather. In 1598 or a little later he decorated the bay window of the Tübingen town hall together with Georg Baur . In 1598 and mostly in the following years he worked with his stepfather. He also worked with Jacob Züberlin than this, the painting of the new, designed by the September 1605 Heinrich Schickhardt built Town Church in Freudenstadt took over. This complex project was of particular importance to Duke Friedrich and dragged on for more than three years. After Jacob Züberlin died in 1607, Apelles Schickhardt took over the management of the painting work - thanks to the support of his mother - and continued it until the end in autumn 1608 (or at the beginning of 1609). The extensive painting included many religious scenes, ribs, artistic painting of the windows and doors, but also painting of the 26 gallery reliefs with their friezes. He completely adopted Jacob Züberlin's style, so that later no difference could be discerned between Züberlin's work and his own. Apelles Schickhardt also painted a crucifix from the 15th century for the church. He was probably already involved in the painting of the church in Hornberg , which was also built by Heinrich Schickhardt.

Only one work by Apelles Schickhardt has survived: a modest drawing in a family book that depicts Fortuna . “The rather small, carefully executed drawing is stylistically clearly dependent on Züberlin. The artist is clearly trying to find an interesting, contrapostically tense, mannerist motif. The waving cloth, stretched out as a sail, is divided into many sharp-edged broken folds. "

Apelles Schickhardt married Maria Möst from Füssen on June 6, 1609 . However, he died young - the following year - of the plague . He had a son, Apelles of the same name, who was born in January 1611 and who died at the age of 17. Maria Schickhardt married Jacob Ramsler in 1611 .

Work received

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: Die Siegener Schickhardt family ... , pp. 60–62
  2. ↑ Schickhardt, Apelles. In: General Artist Lexicon . KG Saur, Berlin 2013
  3. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 368
  4. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 369
  5. ↑ The paintings were destroyed in 1944 when the church was destroyed.
  6. ↑ Manfred Eimer: From Alt-Freudenstadt , Freudenstadt 1922, p. 36
  7. ↑ Heinrich Geissler: draftsman ... , p. 108
  8. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings ... , p. 209

See also

literature

  • Horst Schmid-Schickhardt : The Siegener Schickhardt family in the 15th to 17th centuries. Attempt of a partial genealogy , Baden-Baden: Schmid-Schickhardt 2008
  • Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: Important relatives around Heinrich Schickhardt , Baden-Baden: Schmid-Schickhardt 1999
  • Werner Fleischhauer : Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1971
  • Heinrich Geissler : draftsman at the Württemberg court around 1600 . In: “Yearbook of the State Art Collections in Baden-Württemberg”, Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1969, pp. 79–126
  • 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
  • Albert Westermayer; Emil Wagner; Theodor Demmler: The grave monuments of the collegiate church of St. Georgen in Tübingen , Tübingen: Weil 1912, p. 361

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personal data
SURNAME Schickhardt, Apelles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1610
Place of death Tübingen