Christoph Murer

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Christoph Murer also Christoph Maurer (* February 1558 in Zurich ; † March 27, 1614 in Winterthur ) was a Zurich glass painter , book illustrator and poet.

Career

As the son of the cartographer and glass painter Jos Murer (1530–1580), his career was predefined: He completed his apprenticeship with his father, where in 1579 he completed the stand for the Wettingen monastery . Then he moved to Basel , where he probably worked in Jörg Wannewitsch's workshop. In 1583 at the latest, he moved to Strasbourg , where he met the glass painter Bartholomäus Lingg , who came from Zug . In 1586 he returned to Zurich, moved into the house "Zum Kindli" (today Pfalzgasse 1) and ran a glass painting workshop with his brother Josyas (1564–1630). He worked here primarily as a disc viper, but was also active as a book illustrator and poet. He was elected to the Grand Council of Zurich in 1600. In 1611 he took over the office of Zurich bailiff in Winterthur , which he held like his father until his death.

Works

The stand disk for the Wettingen monastery (delivered in 1579) was ordered from his father Jos Murer, but it also bears three signatures from Christoph Murer. It is believed that his artistic influence on this was great. It corresponds to the cracks in the pane (drafts for a glass painting) and allegorical etchings on the Swiss Confederation in the high quality typical of him.

The coat of arms for the Wettingen monastery, commissioned by Abbot Christoph Silberysen in 1586 and made by Murer and Joachim Brennwald, is missing. Only the price of 51 pounds and 5 shillings is still known.

A pane torn from 1597 and sent to the Wettinger abbot Peter Schmied is also missing; But in 1600 this triggered an abbot. It is very likely that this was made for the Wettinger Amtshaus in Zurich. It came into the possession of Lord Sudeley at Toddington Castle ( Gloucestershire ), who sold it in 1911, in an unexplained manner . The disk has since been lost. Pictures of this disk are shown in the book by Hans Lehmann On the history of glass painting in Switzerland (pages 19–32).

In 1606, the Murer workshop supplied a thirteen-part stand disk sequence for Lucerne Town Hall, where it can still be seen. Six disks from a cycle of estates date from 1609 and are also at Toddington Castle. It is probably part of the panes made for the cloister of the Frauenthal (ZG) monastery .

Murer signed his works with SM or ST M, for Stoffel Murer, as he was also called.

Auctions

  • 1825 in Nuremberg : A Faehndrich in traditional Swiss costume and a naked woman stand under rich architecture. and hold a heraldic shield.

literature

swell

  • Bernhard Anderes / Peter Hoegger: The glass paintings in Wettingen Monastery , Baden-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-85545-031-5
  • Lehmann, Hans: On the history of glass painting in Switzerland , Zurich, 1906–1910
  • Vignau-Wilberg, Thea, Christoph Murer and the 'XL Emblemata nova', Bern 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DIRECTORY OF THE v.DERSCHAUISCHE Kunstkabinett zu NÜRNBERG .... Nuremberg, at the obligated auctionator Schmidmer., 1825., 250 p., Directory of rare art collections., 1825., Google Books, online , p. 70 ( 39)
personal data
SURNAME Murer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss glass painter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 1558
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1614
Place of death Winterthur