Balthasar Herold

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The Marian column at the court in Vienna.

Balthasar Herold (also Balthasar II. Herold from 1654 Balthasar von Herold , born June 27, 1620 (date of baptism) in Nuremberg , † August 11, 1683 (burial) in Vienna ) was a German metal caster and sculptor .

Life

Balthasar Herold learned his trade in the workshop of his father Georg Herold (1590–1632). During the Thirty Years War he is said to have fought against the Swedes in 1646. He then went to Warsaw with his brother Andreas (1623–1696) , where he worked in the service of the Polish King John II Casimir for the local royal piece caster .

Herold's earliest dated work is a bell in Egyhazas-Gellye near Pressburg , which is fully inscribed with the addition “in Pressburg Anno 1648”. The last work dated from Pressburg is a bell from 1653, after which Herold must have moved to Vienna. Only a year later he was by Emperor Ferdinand III. raised to the “imperial and hereditary nobility”, at the same time as his brothers Hans Georg, Andreas, Johannes, Wolf Hieronymus and Achatius, who worked as gunsmiths during the war . In the same year Herold took over the post of imperial piece caster with an annual salary of 400  fl.

In Vienna, Herold was subsequently engaged in the production of bells, monuments and epitaphs . His main activity, however, was certainly in the area of ​​piece casting, i.e. the casting of guns for the imperial artillery .

On August 11, 1683, the second Turkish siege of Vienna was in full swing, Balthasar Herold died in Vienna.

Works

Herold's first work in Vienna was probably the casting for five bells for the Hofkirche St. Augustin (completed in 1659). Other works were the second largest bell in the collegiate church in Klosterneuburg in 1679 and the so-called "New Bell" on one of the pagan towers of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . In the years from 1664 to 1667, Herold created his most famous work, the Marian column at the court in Vienna, on behalf of Emperor Leopold I. In 1676/77 Herold poured the grave slab of Emperor Leopold I's second wife, Claudia Felizitas of Austria-Tyrol, with a grave inscription made by the emperor himself in the Dominican Church in Vienna .

Bells

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Austria

Museum reception

Several guns that were cast by Balthasar Herold are now exhibited in the artillery halls of the Army History Museum in Vienna.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ M. Poch-Kalous: The Viennese handicraft since the Renaissance. In: Association for the history of the city of Vienna (ed.): History of the city of Vienna. History of fine arts in Vienna. New series, Volume VII, 2, Vienna 1955, p. 239.
  2. ↑ H. Haupt: Archives on the cultural history of the Viennese court, Part I: Emperor Ferdinand III. The years 1646–1656. In: Yearbook of the Art History Collections in Vienna. 75, 1979, p. 605.
  3. ^ Walter F. Kalina: The Marian Columns in Wernstein am Inn (1645/47) Vienna (1664/66), Munich (1637/38) and Prague (1650). In: Bundesdenkmalamt (Hrsg.): Austrian magazine for art and monument preservation. 58, 2004, H. 1, pp. 43-61.
  4. ↑ a b c d e The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . List of artists, Balthasar Heroldt, p. 1371.
  5. ↑ a b The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . List of artists, Balthasar Heroldt, p. 2824.
personal data
SURNAME Herald, Balthasar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herold, Balthasar von; Heroldt, Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German piece, bell and art caster
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1683
Place of death Vienna