Daniel Lindtmayer

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Daniel Lindt Mayer, (Lindt Meyer) (* 1552 in Schaffhausen , † 1606 / 1607 in the Central Switzerland ) was a Swiss draftsman, etcher, woodcutter and tabular, facades and glass painter .

Life

Daniel Lindtmayer was born in Schaffhausen as the son of the glass painter Felix Lindtmayer the Younger and his wife Anna Sattler. His baptism took place on April 24, 1552. His parents' marriage was shattered and marked by violence. Daniel Lindtmayer's character is passed down as unstable and restless. In which Schaffhausen workshop he learned the painting trade is unknown. Influences from Tobias Stimmer on his artistic development are assumed. Around 1574 Lindtmayer was on a journeyman's journey in Basel and got to know the Holbein School . In 1576/77 Lindtmayer stayed in Eastern Switzerland, including Feldkirch, where he married the daughter of the painter Moritz Frosch. This marriage had seven or eight children, none of whom survived childhood.

In 1577 Lindtmayer returned to Schaffhausen. In contrast to the tradition of his family, however, he hardly worked as a glass painter himself, but drew cracks (drafts) for cabinet and coat of arms panes and worked as a flat painter. In 1588 he was a member of the commission for a new craft regulations for painters and glass painters. In the same year he married Beatrix Rüeger, widow of the glass painter Werner Kübler the Elder (1555–86 / 7) and sister of the chronicler Johann Jakob Rüeger , who from then on supported him in his work. In addition to three biological children, stepson Werner Kübler the Younger (1582–1621) was part of the family. He was an apprentice at Lindtmayer and later became known as a glass painter for coats of arms for Swiss cities. However, no other glass painters after Daniel have come down to us from the Lindtmayer family.

In 1595, Lindtmayer worked on Lake Constance, where he received warning letters from the Council of Schaffhausen, as he did not support his family who had stayed behind financially and they lived on public money. Due to his involvement in a knife fight, he was arrested in Constance and brought back to his hometown. The following year he left Schaffhausen for good. He stayed in central Switzerland, including Lucerne . In 1601 he was banned from flat painting in Lucerne and he was only allowed to do glass painting as a journeyman in recognized workshops. Presumably that's why he left town. His last signed pane tear is dated 1603. The latest year of death is assumed to be 1607, as the Schaffhausen male guild lost its debts at this time.

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Daniel Lindtmayer the Elder J .: Tiba playing shepherd , pen drawing (1601)

Lindtmayer's work can be assigned to the late Renaissance. About 370 drawings by him have been preserved, a large number of them pane cracks, especially designs for coats of arms panes. There are also isolated etchings, facade designs, portraits and beech wood cuts. Lindtmayer also painted a few small oil paintings and watercolors. Little known, but at least of particular importance for dance of death research, is the dance of death sequence of 48 round pictures with a diameter of 118 mm, which he executed in 1592 on 24 front and back pages of a drawing book. All drawings are dated and signed with DLM (for Daniel Lindt-Mayer). The artist chose this signature to avoid confusion with the works of his older colleague Daniel Lang, who already signed with DL. It is believed that these are not designs for paintings, but rather designs for cracked windows. The drawing booklet with the originals is now kept in the Göttingen University Library.

There are two glass paintings in the collection of the Museum Allerheiligen , as well as two more that are attributed to him. One of his paintings is called Abraham's Sacrifice and dates from 1572. Many glass paintings were made by other painters based on Lindtmayer's designs.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans Steiner: Daniel Lindtmayer . In. Schaffhausen Contributions to History. Biographies Volume IV . 58th year 1981, pp. 139–148 ( PDF; (108 kB) )
  2. ↑ Otto Stiefel: The glass paintings of the All Saints Museum in Schaffhausen. P. 4.
  3. ↑ a b c d NDB, Tilman Falk, pp. 618/619
  4. ↑ Hans Georg Wehrens: The dance of death in the Alemannic language area. "I have to do it - and don't know what" . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2563-0 . P. 180f.
personal data
SURNAME Lindtmayer, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindtmayer, Daniel the Younger; Lindtmeyer, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized April 24, 1552
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH 1606 or 1607
Place of death Central Switzerland