Benedikt Dreyer

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Benedikt Dreyer (* before 1495 , † after 1555 ) was a German carver and painter.

Life

Benedikt Dreyer: Baptismal altar in St. Johannis in Lüneburg

Dreyer is documented after having worked as a journeyman in Lüneburg (1506/07) by owning a house in Lübeck until 1555.

Works

From his hand created altars , the Antonius -Altar (ca. 1522) from the demolished Maria Magdalene Church of the castle monastery and an altar of the Church of Tramm , are part of the great collection of medieval religious art in St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck. In addition, God the Father with the dead Christ and the coats of arms of the England, Bergen and Novgorod drivers (today in the St. Anne's Museum) are ascribed to him in the Holy Spirit Hospital . The carved altar for the Lendersdorf parish church of St. Michaelis still there; Originally associated groups of figures are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the RISD Museum in Providence , Rhode Island . Another altar by Dreyer from Birket Church on the Danish island of Lolland is in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen .

In 1533/34 Dreyer created a pulpit with Reformation motifs for the Marienkirche . The work of art, created only three years after the Reformation in Lübeck, is one of the oldest and most important works of art from the Reformation period in Northern Germany. In 1699, when the Marienkirche received a new pulpit in the Baroque style, the pulpit was sold to Zarrentin am Schaalsee , where it is still used today in the Zarrentin church.

literature

  • Horst Appuhn:  Dreyer, Benedikt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 121 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Tamara Thiesen: Benedikt Dreyer - The work of the late Gothic carver. Kiel 2007, ISBN 978-3-937719-57-3
  • Carl Weingartz: The Lendersdorfer St. Michael Altar. In: Friedrich Milz: Lendersdorf, Krauthausen, Berzbuir, Kufferath. Story in words and pictures. Edited by the community of interests "Heimatbund eV Lendersdorf" 1985
  • Parish church of St. Michael in Düren-Lendersdorf with St. Michael's altar by Benedikt Dreyer. Edited by the Catholic Parish Office of St. Michael Düren

Web links

Commons : Benedikt Dreyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meeting of Saints Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate , collection database of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. ^ Christ in the House of Simon , RISM Museum Collection Database
personal data
SURNAME Dreyer, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German carver and painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1495
DATE OF DEATH after 1555