Conrad Fyoll

Conrad Fyoll (also: Konrad , Fyol , Viol ) (* around 1425 , † before 31 October 1486 ) was a German painter and perhaps carver .

life and work

Fyoll was a son of Sebald Fyoll in Frankfurt am Main . In 1448 he took the citizenship oath and after the death of his father in 1463 he took over his father's workshop in the Nideck house on the corner of Fahrgasse and Kannengießergasse . From 1463 to 1467 he worked at the Cyriakus Church in Rödelheim . From 1464 he was commissioned several times with repair work in the Römer , including in 1477 the renewal of the quaternions of the imperial constitution in the upper council chamber. His sons Conrad and Hans Fyoll assisted him . In 1466 Fyoll restored a fire-damaged wing of the Marien Altar under the Sachsenhausen bridge tower .

Between 1467 and 1470 Fyoll created a high altar for the Selbold monastery . During this time he apparently ran into deep debt. In 1469 his creditor obtained the seizure and in 1470 the auction of the house of Nideck; then Fyoll left Frankfurt and worked outside the city until 1475. In 1478 he returned and painted the organ front in the Bartholomäuskirche . Later works can possibly be ascribed to his eldest son Conrad, for example the renovation of a St. Christophorus in front of the lower council chamber in the Römer.

Among the works that have survived today, none can be ascribed to him with certainty, but some altarpieces from Frankfurt and the surrounding area are marked with a violet ( viole ). These include an Anna selbdritt in the Liebfrauenkirche and the Niedererlenbach Altar in the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt . Recently, Stefan Kemperdick assigned the first two generations of the Fyoll family of painters in Frankfurt, i.e. Sebald and his son Conrad, a stylistically coherent body of work that was recognized earlier. This includes the renovation of wall paintings in the Frankfurt Römer from 1477, fragments of an altar in the Historical Museum of Frankfurt (Entombment, around 1470/80; fragment of a Visitation, around 1470/80) and perhaps 15 Panels of the above-mentioned Langenselbolder Altarpiece (around 1467/1468), which today are preserved as anonymous works in museums in Lyon, Karlsruhe and elsewhere.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kemperdick 2019.

literature

• Stefan Kemperdick: Frankfurt in the middle of the 15th century. The Fyoll family of painters . In: Martin Büchsel, Hilja Droste, Berit Wagner (eds.): Art transfer and form genesis in art on the Middle Rhine 1400–1500. Berlin 2019, pp. 257–276.
• Michaela Schedl: Panel painting of the late Gothic on the southern Middle Rhine (= sources and treatises on the Middle Rhine church history 135). Mainz 2016, here pp. 132–141.
• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .