Boldewin

Boldewin ( Boldewin of Brussels ; born before 1590; died after 1617) was a Flemish carpet and formwork maker who had been employed at the Wolfenbütteler Hof under Duke Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel since 1590 .

Life

On September 14, 1590, Boldewin, who ran a carpet workshop, signed a contract in which he was employed by Duke Heinrich Julius as a “carpet and formwork maker” to take care of the maintenance of his carpets. He liked to employ craftsmen from the Netherlands when renovating his residence town. Boldewin previously worked in Halberstadt and described himself as a “carpet maker and Burgher zu Halberstadt”. His workshop and apartment were in the long building, in the so-called God's warehouse, and were one of the leading knitting companies in the state of Braunschweig.

Boldewin made tapestries with large-format representations of biblical scenes, which were framed by borders with coats of arms and floral decorations. He preferred the colors blue, brown, yellow and green. The design of the motifs was based on works by the Flemish painter Bernard van Orley . He was rewarded with an annual salary of 50 thalers and natural produce, summer and winter clothing, free meals at the farm and free apartment and workshop.

The works assigned to him include tapestries that are in Marienburg Castle or a copy with a noble coat of arms of the von Calenberg family . In his factory, Boldewin made a tapestry in 1597 for the Hereditary Marshal of the Diocese of Paderborn Raben from Spiegel zu Peckelsheim on which "Abraham's sacrifice" is depicted, a recurring motif in Boldewin's works. Since 1592 he was largely involved in the manufacture of private carpets. Boldewin has not been listed as an employee of the Duke since 1592. In Schloss Blankenburg to a Boldewin attributed tapestry was kept that for the Princess Elizabeth , the daughter of the Duke Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , and her first husband Adolf XIII. von Schaumburg , was made.

Count Ludwig III. As a banker and financier, von der Asseburg had a business relationship with Duke Heinrich Julius and, together with his wife, had smaller woolen tapestries made as wedding gifts for their daughters, which probably also come from Boldewin's workshop in Wolfenbüttel. The work of the same workshop includes a tapestry from 1600 on which the sacrifice of Isaac and the parental coat of arms of Anna Elisabeth von Schachten , Anna Gisela von der Asseburg's sister, can be seen with a border of 16 coats of arms, fruits and flowers.

literature

• Heinrich Göbel : The manufacture of the Asseburg carpets . In: Berlin museums. Reports from the Prussian art collections. Volume 51, Issue 1. Berlin 1930, p. 11-14 , JSTOR : 4237646 ( vdocuments.site ).
• Bernard Korzus: Art and culture in the Weser area, 800–1600. 2nd Edition. Exhibition catalog. Aschendorff, Münster in Westphalia 1966, OCLC 163699537 , p. 427 and 456 ff .
• Christina Wötzel: Boldewin (also Boudewijns, Balduin) called from Brussels. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 97-98 .

Web links

• Abraham's Sacrifice (Tapestry Illustration)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Tröscher: French and Dutch art and artists in the art of Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland . Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Baden-Baden 1954, OCLC 174651957 , p. 415 ( books.google.de - restricted view).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Heinrich Göbel: Tapestries . III. Part, volume 2 : The Germanic and Slavic countries: West, Central, East and North Germany, England, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Poland, Lithuania . Leipzig 1934, p. 94-98 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
3. ↑ Christina Wötzel: Boldewin (also Boudewijns, Balduin) called from Brussels. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 97-98 .
4. ^ Chronicle of the association in 1935 . In: H. Voges (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch . 2nd episode, volume 7 . Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein, Wolfenbüttel 1935, p. 160 ( publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de ).
5. ^ Renate Jaques: German textile art in its development up to the present . Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1942, p. 222 .
6. ^ Charlotte Steinbrucker: Tapestry (picture knitting, tapestry) - IV. Renaissance - b) Central and Northern Germany. In: Real Lexicon on German Art History. Volume II, 1940, pp. 707-740 ( rdklabor.de ).