Claudius Voillo
Claudius Voillo , also Claus Voilo (* in Lorraine ; effective approx. 1621–1650 in Germany) was a wandering French bell founder in the first half of the 17th century.
life and work
The details of Claudius Voillo's life are not known. Claudius Voillo is first identified as a wandering bell caster through his joint bell casting with the Lorraine Franciscus Racle based on the inscriptions in the bells they cast. The first documented bell casting took place in 1621 for the church in Hillensberg , the next, ten years apart, were two bells for the church in Wasungen . Later he worked with the Lorraine traveling founder Gottfried Baulard (also Boulard ) in the area between Ems and Weser . Originated here
- 1644 together with the third caster C. Gage the bell for the Evangelical Reformed Church in Weenermoor with the sound f sharp '
- 1645 the bell for the clock in the roof turret of St. Lamberti Church in Eckwarden
- 1646 the bronze fifth for the Church of John the Baptist in Engerhafe
- 1647 the big bell, chime d ', of the church in Dornum .
- 1650 as evidenced by the inscription M. Claudius Voillo et Gotfried Baulard me fecerunt the bell for the church (today Emsland Cathedral ) in Haren
- In August 1650, according to the inscription Claudius Voillo (and) Gotfried Baulard, a bell for the Trinity Church in Oldenburg-Osternburg
In the literature he is regarded as the brother of the traveling caster Stephan Wollo ( Voillo ), who also came from Lorraine, who is recorded in the area north of the Elbe in Holstein and Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1649 to 1670 and who lived in Lübeck from 1658 to 1668.
literature
- Annuaire de la société d'histoire et d'archéologie de la Lorraine: Volumes 3-4, Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de la Lorraine, Metz - 1891
- Revue historique de la Lorraine, Volume 42, Société d'archéologie lorraine et du Musée historique lorrain, Musée historique lorrain (Nancy, France), 1893, p. 166
- Thieme-Becker : General Lexicon of Fine Artists , Volume 34, Leipzig 1940, p. 513
- Georg Troescher: Art and artist walks in Central Europe, 800-1800 , vol. French and Dutch art and artists in the art of Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland , publishing house for art and science, 1954
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franciscus Racle (also Ragle ) is according to Thieme-Becker, Volume 27, p. 544, as a bell founder from 1612 to 1642 in the Netherlands, Württemberg, Saxony-Weimar, Oldenburg and Schleswig-Holstein through numerous bell castings. In Lorraine at the time there was a large family of medalists working there named Racle.
- ↑ Thieme-Becker (Volume 3), p. 76: Baular (d), Godefroy , was a founder of bells in Neuenkirchen / Oldenburg (1658) and in Uttum near Emden (1659)
- ↑ The great bell of Weenermoor. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 24, 2016 ; accessed on January 1, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Wolfgang Runge: Churches in the Oldenburger Land , Volume 1, Heinz Holzberg Verlag, Oldenburg 1988
- ↑ Wolfgang Runge: Churches in the Oldenburger Land , Volume 3, Heinz Holzberg Verlag, Oldenburg 1988
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voillo, Claudius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Voilo, Claus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French wandering bell-maker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1621 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lorraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th century |