Daniel Mauch (carver)

Daniel Mauch: Holy Kinship , around 1510/1515, Bavarian National Museum , Munich, inv. MA 1880

Daniel Mauch: Holy Kinship , around 1515, Parish Church of the Assumption, Tomerdingen

Maria Magdalena, around 1500–1510, Bavarian National Museum

Daniel Mauch (* around 1477 Ulm ; † 1540 in Liège ) is the last great artist in the long line of the Ulm School . He worked as a carver in Ulm on various late Gothic altar projects.

Life

Not much is known about the precise origins of the artist. He was Jörg Stocker's son-in-law at the Ulm School, which is closely related to the artist families . He married his daughter Rosa Stocker in 1502/03 and opened his own workshop on Kornhausgasse in 1503.

In 1504 his only son Daniel Mauch the Younger was born, who later studied legal scholarship and died in 1567 as Canon of Worms .

The carver Daniel Mauch was first mentioned in the documents of the city of Ulm in 1508. In 1529 his traces are lost in the Danube city. He takes a leave of absence from the Ulm Council to “make a living”, as a source literally says of him. The advance of the Reformation in Ulm and the associated iconoclasm in 1531 made themselves felt in the Ulm art workshops as an economic doldrums. Daniel Mauch died in Liège in 1540.

Mauch is possibly identical with the master of the Oertel Madonna .

Works (selection)

Lost Works

Because of the iconoclasm in Ulm, numerous works by Mauch were lost:

• In 1510 he and Martin Schaffner delivered a reredos for the local Franciscan Church, which was lost.
• In 1514 he created a mountain of olives for the Wettenhausen monastery, which had also been destroyed .

Preserved works

• around 1505/1510: Anna herself third in Steinhausen an der Rottum
• around 1505/1510: Relief of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Marienkapelle in Kempten
• 1510: Winged altar ( Bieselbach Altar ) in Bieselbach, a district of Horgau
• around 1510: Martyrdom of Simonino . Sculpture groups for the Church of San Pietro, Trento . Today in the Tridentine Diocesan Museum .
• around 1515: Holy clan in the parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Tomerdingen
• In 1520 he worked for a long time in Geislingen an der Steige to produce an altarpiece for the (now Protestant) town church on behalf of the Sebastian Brotherhood .
• 1520: Sebastian in the Dionysius Church of Munderkingen
• around 1520: Anne's Altar in Oberstadion
• around 1530/40: Naked old people, Liebieghaus , Frankfurt am Main
• Bust of Mary, Museum Johanniterkirche in Schwäbisch Hall

The Ulm Museum shows various works that are attributed to Daniel Mauch. These works clearly show the transition from the late Gothic to the Renaissance .

literature

• Barbara Maier-Lörcher: Masterpieces Ulm Art. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-8004-2
• Susanne Wagini: The Ulm carver Daniel Mauch (1477–1540) (= research on the history of the city of Ulm, vol. 24). Ulm 1995
• Brigitte Reinhardt (Ed.): Daniel Mauch: Sculptor in the Age of Reformation. Hatje Cantz Verlag / VM, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2424-1
• Susanne Wagini:  Mauch, Daniel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 424 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Daniel Mauch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Daniel Mauch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Daniel Mauch - sculptor in the age of the Reformation on the website of the city of Ulm

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the son's grave inscription in Worms
2. ^ Peter G. Bietenholz, Thomas Brian Deutscher: Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press, 2003, ISBN 0802085776 , p. 409 (digital scan , son's résumé)
3. ↑ Guido de Verd: Van Ham brings important late Gothic work of art from Daniel Mauch's workshop to Italy . In: Van Ham, Art Magazine , Fall 2020.
4. ↑ "By an Upper Swabian sculptor around 1515/20" according to Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Editor): Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio-Vereinigung [Hrsg.]: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 711 .
5. ^ Brita von Götz-Mohr (arr.): Italy, France, Netherlands 1500–1800 . In: Nachantike small sculptures (= Herbert Beck [Hrsg.]: Liebieghaus - Museum of old sculpture, Frankfurt am Main. Scientific catalogs ). tape II . Verlag Gutenberg, Melsungen 1988, ISBN 3-87280-052-3 , p. 213–215 Cat.-No. 85 (with discussion of the arguments for and against an attribution to Mauch, the author doubts: "This (sic) attribution (...) cannot (...) be accepted without hesitation.").