Conrad Luckeln

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Conrad Luckeln was a German mold cutter and caster. Documentary mentions of Conrad Luckeln can be found between 1551 and 1575.

Luckeln was a student of Philipp Soldan , the late Gothic stonemason, wood carver, shape cutter, master builder and painter from Frankenberg . He was probably the son of Curt (Conrad) Luckeln / Lückel, who was granted citizenship in 1521 and was a councilor in Korbach from 1553 to 1550 .

Works (selection)

Oven plates:

  • Parable of the Prodigal Son, 1551/1600.
  • Last Judgment, 1559.
  • The Baptism of Christ, around 1567.
  • Crucifixion and Sacrifice of Isaac.
  • The story of Suzanne, around 1575, together with Jost Luppold.

Grave slabs:

  • Three well-preserved tombstones in the choir of the church in Rhena , Waldeck, for Arnold von Rehen / Rhena 1572 and his two wives Katharina von Padberg 1568 and Elisabeth von Spiegel zum Desenberg 1571. The tombstones for the two wives show u. a. Crucifixion and Last Judgment, model originally intended for stove tops.

swell

  • Karl Schäfer: History of the iron industry in the former county of Waldeck in the 16th and 17th centuries. Korbach 1977.
  • Martin Rudolph: Waldecker iron casting. Old grave tablets and stove plates. In: Geschichtsblätter für Waldeck, 61st volume, 1969/70, pp. 5-45.
  • Theodor Niederquell: The grave monuments of the old Waldeck knighthood. Special print Hessische Familienkunde, 1960.
  • Helmut Nicolai: Waldeck coat of arms. Part 3, Arolsen 1991, p. 365.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Nicolai: Waldeckische Wappen, part 3, p. 365.
personal data
SURNAME Luckeln, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mold cutter and caster
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 16th century or 17th century