Bartholomaeus Winterhalder

Bartholomaeus Winterhalder (also Bartle Winterhalder ; * around 1613 or around 1617 in the "Kalten Herberge", the highest farm in Urach, a district of Vöhrenbach in the Black Forest ; † July 3, 1680 in Neukirch (Furtwangen in the Black Forest) ) was a German sculptor of the Baroque and progenitor of the Winterhalder family of sculptors .

High Altar Madonna in St. Jakobus (Stegen-Eschbach)

Life

He married Ursula geb. Hummel (1611–1695), the widow of the farmer from Oberfallengrundhof in Neukirch, Bartle Valler, who was "judged and falsed for witchcraft in 1636". Winterhalder ran the farm until it was taken over in 1654 by the son of Bartle Valler, Georg Valler (1624 - after 1673). On the old part, Winterhalder was able to devote himself more to carving in the workshop that remained for him than before. Of his eight children, two became sculptors, namely the second, Johann Conrad (1640–1676), and the seventh, Adam (around 1652–1737). The farm passed from Georg Valler through a Bartle Valler and a Christoph Faller to Georg Faller (1675–1948), the father of the famous sculptor Matthias Faller , who took over the workshop that still existed on the farm when he returned from the journeyman's journey in 1732.

plant

The documented works have been destroyed, but the following works have been preserved, which are very likely to be attributed to him:

The former altar of the St. Wolfgang Chapel on the Thurner Pass near St. Märgen . The altar is now in the chapel of the Holzhof belonging to Breitnau .
A holy Blasius , a mourning Maria and a holy Erasmus in the Blasius (Bläsi) chapel in the Waldkirch district of Kollnau .
The miraculous image, a crowned Madonna with child, from the Lindenberg chapel in St. Peter (Upper Black Forest) , which was finally transferred to the church of St. Jakobus (Stegen-Eschbach) after the destruction of the chapel in 1787 , where it is now in Matthias Fallers High altar stands.

Left side altar of St. Nikolaus, Waldau

It was not until 2005 that Manfred Hermann extended the attributions to include items from the parish church of St. Nikolaus in Waldau, a district of Titisee-Neustadt , namely the tabernacle of the high altar from 1661 and the two side altars from 1670 and 1675. The Madonna of the Marien Altar is one of the most important of the time in the Black Forest ”. St. Nicholas of the Nicholas altar is today on the left wall of the nave. Most of the rest of the furnishings were created by Matthias Faller about a hundred years later.

Appreciation

Bartholomäus had a good name as an artist, because in 1661 he was called "a respected and skillful sculptor from Neukirch". His figures appear “convincing and clear.” After the Thirty Years War had devastated many churches, he was offered a rich field of activity. So he became the "father of sculpture in the central Black Forest".

literature

Edmund Wilhelm Braun : Winterhalder, Barthel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 84 .
Manfred Hermann: To the Black Forest sculptors Winterhalder in Neukirch and Vöhrenbach. In: Bernd Mathias Kremer (ed.): Art and spiritual culture on the Upper Rhine. Festschrift for Hermann Brommer on his 70th birthday. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 1996, ISBN 3-931820-01-7 , pp. 61–83.
Manfred Hermann: Catholic parish church St. Nikolaus in Waldau. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2005, ISBN 3-89870-251-0 .
Manfred Hermann: Matthias Faller's life and work. In: Parish of St. Märgen, St. Märgen Monastery Museum (Ed.): Matthias Faller. The baroque sculptor from the Black Forest. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name May 17 - September 2, 2007, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-382-6 , pp. 4–13.
Bernhard Kleiser: The Winterhalder family of sculptors. In: Working group city history of the home guild "Frohsinn" eV Vöhrenbach (Hrsg.): Vöhrenbach in the Black Forest: new contributions to the city history. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1994, ISBN 3-89264-888-3 , pp. 90-109.
Klaus Weber, Wilhelm Dotter: Oberfallengrundhof. In: From the history of Neukirch. Farms chronicle of a Black Forest community. 2nd edition, Kurortliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Furtwangen-Neukirch 1991, pp. 65–83.
Christoph Winterhalder: Bartel Winterhalder, the carver, and his descendants. In: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar. Volume 30, 1980, pp. 99-112.

Individual evidence

↑ Hermann 1996, p. 68.
^ Weber and Dotter 1991.
↑ Winterhalder 1980, p. 99.
^ Weber and Dotter 1991.
↑ Hermann 2007, p. 5.
^ Manfred Hermann: Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary, St. Märgen in the Black Forest. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2003, ISBN 3-89870-135-2 , p. 37.
↑ Hermann 1996, p. 69; Pictures of the chapel on the website of the pastoral care unit Waldkirch .
↑ Hermann 2005, p. 17.
↑ Hermann 1996, p. 68.
↑ Hermann 1996, p. 70.

personal data
SURNAME	Winterhalder, Bartholomaeus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Winterhalder, Bartle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1613 or around 1617
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vöhrenbach , Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH	July 3, 1680
Place of death	Neukirch (Furtwangen in the Black Forest)

[1] Hermann 1996, p. 68.

[2] Weber and Dotter 1991.

[3] Winterhalder 1980, p. 99.

[4] Weber and Dotter 1991.

[5] Hermann 2007, p. 5.

[6] Manfred Hermann: Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary, St. Märgen in the Black Forest. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2003, ISBN 3-89870-135-2 , p. 37.

[7] Hermann 1996, p. 69; Pictures of the chapel on the website of the pastoral care unit Waldkirch .

[8] Hermann 2005, p. 17.

[9] Hermann 1996, p. 68.

[10] Hermann 1996, p. 70.