Bartholomäus Zeitblom

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Altar panel by Bartholomäus Zeitblom (around 1489–1497) in Ulm Minster

Bartholomew Zeitblom (* around 1455 in Nördlingen ; † around 1518 in Ulm ) was a painter of the late Gothic period in the southwest of Germany. He is considered one of the main masters of the Ulm School .

Life

Bartholomäus Zeitblom was born around 1455 in Nördlingen “in modest craftsmanship”. He lived in Ulm from 1482 and was listed there as a single taxpayer. His first marriage was to the daughter of the Nördlingen painter Friedrich Herlin , and the second to a daughter of the Ulm painter Hans Schüchlin . So he became "also symbolically the heir to the great Ulm tradition".

“Probably the largest commission Zeitblom worked on during his years at Schüchlin is the paintings of the high altar of Blaubeuren Abbey . The carved retable was one of the largest of its kind from Ulm workshops ”and was completed in 1494. Zeitblom contributed six scenes to the Johannes cycle. He also painted Christ Carrying the Cross in the weekday view. There “he hid his signature on the collar of the weeping Johannes and thus documented for the attentive viewer who the painter was.” Another work that Zeitblom signed himself is the altar of the castle chapel in Kilchberg near Tübingen. Mainly for altar panels, Zeitblom was "around 1500 for Ulm and far beyond the most wanted painter".

After completing the Blaubeurer high altar, Zeitblom probably went into business for himself. His own workshop was in what is now Pfauengasse 3. He thus managed a large and influential workshop in Ulm. Zeitblom had married into the "flourishing workshop of Hans Schüchlin - the usual, because necessary, way to be able to settle down as a master in a late medieval town with the sure prospect of being able to take over the Schüchlin workshop one day".

His wife is “first referred to as a widow in a source from 1522; it was assumed that the painter was a victim of the severe plague epidemic of 1519 ”.

Zeitblom and his workshop had "a distinctive and far-reaching school character". Hans Maler von Ulm was one of them, "who carried the Zeitblom style into a new era under different circumstances".

Works

Collaboration on the wing paintings of the Blaubeurer high altar, 1493

Important works are the wing paintings on the high altar of the monastery churches in Blaubeuren and Adelberg . Furthermore, panels of a winged altar in the Neithart chapel of the Ulm Minster , which were previously in the Wengen Church in Ulm. Such a picture of " St. Margaret with a group of holy virgins" (see picture). Other works are:

  • The outer wings of an altar from the Wengen Church in Ulm came from the collection of the conservator Carl Julius Milde to the St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck in the 19th century .
  • Four scenes from the legend of Saint Valentine, today the State Gallery of Old German Masters , Augsburg
  • Saint Florian and Saint Margareta , exterior of the Kilchberger Altar , today State Gallery Stuttgart
  • Annunciation to Mary and Visitation of Mary , inside of the Eschacher Altar , today State Gallery Stuttgart
  • Birth of Christ and offering in the temple , inside of the Heerberger Altar , today State Gallery Stuttgart
  • Christ and the Twelve Apostles , Predella of the Heerberger Altar , today State Gallery Stuttgart
  • 4 panels from an altar of the church in Hürbel (Gutenzell-Hürbel) in the district of Biberach (tempera on wood): Saint Catherine (116.5 × 44 cm), The Annunciation (Virgin Mary) (117 × 48.7 cm), The Annunciation (Archangel Gabriel) (117 × 48.7 cm), Saint Barbara (121.5 × 40 cm), today in the Muzeul Național de Artă al României (National Art Museum of Romania), Bucharest
  • Five panels from the Bingen Altar in Bingen in today's Sigmaringen district . The birth of Christ and the visit of the wise men (238 × 145 cm), the former backs with a representation in the temple and the death of Mary and a Vera icon as a predella.

literature

  • Max Bach : To the knowledge of the works of Bartholomäus Zeitblom. In: Diöcesan archive of Swabia. 12th year 1894, pp. 81–88 (digitized version )
  • Max Bach:  Zeitblom, Bartholomäus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 8-11.
  • Dietlinde Bosch: Bartholomäus Zeitblom. The artistic work . (= Research on the history of the city of Ulm. Volume 30). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-17-016383-3 . (Additional dissertation, University of Stuttgart 1998)
  • Harriet Brinkmöller-Gandlau:  ZEITBLOM, Bartholomäus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 375-377.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Hans Koepf : Schüchlin, Herlin and Zeitblom. In: Swabian art history. Volume 3, Thorbecke, Konstanz 1963, pp. 110-111.
  • Elisabeth Wiemann: Old German painting. State Gallery Stuttgart . Published by the Stuttgarter Galerieverein e. V. Stuttgart 1989.
  • Staatsgalerie Augsburg, municipal art collection. Volume I: Old German Paintings . Catalog. Edited by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich 1988, pp. 123–128.
  • From Cranach to Monet: European masterpieces from the National Art Museum Bucharest. Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 1993, pp. 16-19.
  • Wolfgang Urban: Worthy of a cathedral. The masterpiece of the Bingen Altarpiece. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg i. Allgäu 2018, ISBN 978-3-95976-111-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuel Teget-Welz: Bartholomäus Zeitblom, Jörg Stocker and the Ulm art production around 1500. In: Ulmer Museum (ed.): Jerusalem in Ulm. The winged altar from St. Michael zu den Wengen. Exhibition catalog. Süddeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Ulm 2015, ISBN 978-3-88294-465-5 , p. 11.
  2. ^ Hans Koepf: Swabian art history. Volume 3, Thorbecke, Konstanz 1963, p. 39.
  3. ↑ Manuel Teget-Welz, Bartholomäus Zeitblom, Jörg Stocker and Ulmer Kunstproduktion around 1500. In: Ulmer Museum (ed.): Jerusalem in Ulm. The winged altar from St. Michael zu den Wengen. Exhibition catalog. Süddeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Ulm 2015, ISBN 978-3-88294-465-5 , p. 12.
  4. ↑ Manuel Teget-Welz: Bartholomäus Zeitblom, Jörg Stocker and the Ulm art production around 1500. In: Ulmer Museum (ed.): Jerusalem in Ulm. The winged altar from St. Michael zu den Wengen. Exhibition catalog. Süddeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Ulm 2015, ISBN 978-3-88294-465-5 , pp. 13, 14.
  5. ↑ so Heinz Koppenhöfer: Altars Ulm Masters. Treasures in village churches in the Swabian Alb. Metzingen 1993, ISBN 3-87785-020-0 , p. 8.
  6. ↑ Manuel Teget-Welz: Bartholomäus Zeitblom, Jörg Stocker and the Ulm art production around 1500. In: Ulmer Museum (ed.): Jerusalem in Ulm. The winged altar from St. Michael zu den Wengen. Exhibition catalog. Süddeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Ulm 2015, ISBN 978-3-88294-465-5 , p. 14.
  7. ↑ Karl Schwaiger, homes altulmischer artists. In: Ulm Oberschwaben. 29, 1934, pp. 69-74.
  8. ^ Anna Moraht-Fromm: Style stories. The Wengen Masters or: The painter's nose. In: Ulmer Museum (Hrsg.): Jerusalem in Ulm. The winged altar from St. Michael zu den Wengen. Exhibition catalog. Süddeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Ulm 2015, ISBN 978-3-88294-465-5 , p. 56.
  9. ↑ Manuel Teget-Welz: Bartholomäus Zeitblom, Jörg Stocker and the Ulm art production around 1500. In: Ulmer Museum (ed.): Jerusalem in Ulm. The winged altar from St. Michael zu den Wengen. Exhibition catalog. Süddeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Ulm 2015, ISBN 978-3-88294-465-5 , p. 20.
  10. ↑ Anna Moraht-Fromm, Stories of Style. The Wengen Masters or: The painter's nose. In: Ulmer Museum (Hrsg.): Jerusalem in Ulm. The winged altar from St. Michael zu den Wengen. Exhibition catalog. Süddeutsche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Ulm 2015, p. 65.
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Urban: Worthy of a cathedral. The masterpiece of the Bingen Altarpiece . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg i. Allgäu 2018, ISBN 978-3-95976-111-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Zeitblom, Bartholomew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter from the Ulm School
DATE OF BIRTH around 1455
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordlingen
DATE OF DEATH around 1518
Place of death Ulm