Dries Holthuys

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Dries Holthuys (Andreas Holthuis) was a German sculptor who worked in stone and wood around 1492–1508 in Kleve on the left Lower Rhine. Only recognized in its importance in the last few decades, the scope of his complete works in research is still controversial. The oeuvre of a carver with the emergency name Meister der Emmerich candlestick crown is now mainly assigned to Holthuys.

Life

Apart from the commission from 1492 for the Xanten figure of the Virgin, there is no archival evidence of the life and work of the sculptor. The reconstruction of his oeuvre, which has grown to around 50 attributions , contains datable works in which other carvers or master builders were also involved, which makes the time frame of his work and various workshop contexts likely. There are good reasons to believe that Heinrich Douvermann and Hinrik van Holt were trained in his workshop until 1506. Arnt Beeldsnider is believed to be the teacher at Holthuis in Kalkar.

plant

The only sculptural work that has been documented for the sculptor is the pillar figure of a Mother of God made of Baumberger sandstone in the Xanten Cathedral . All other attributions of works, be it in sandstone or oak, are critically derived from this sculpture.

Stone sculptures

  • Madonna, 1495 (commission), 1496 (installation), Xanten Cathedral
  • Christ Salvator, around 1503, Xanten Cathedral
  • Epitaph of Balthasar Distelhuisen, † 1502, Kleve, Stiftskirche
  • Epitaph of Philipp Schoen, † 1492, Xanten Cathedral, cloister
Epitaph of Philipp Schoen, Xanten
Marienleuchter, Emmerich

Wooden sculptures (selection)

  • Figures of apostles in the Minorite Church in Kleve
    together with Heinrich Douvermann and Henrick van Holt
  • Anthony's retable, before 1506, Xanten Cathedral
    together with Heinrich Douvermann and Henrick van Holt, large shrine figures and the Assumption of Holthuis
  • Marienleuchter, around 1500, Emmerich, St. Adelgundis
    previously attributed to a master of the Emmerich candlestick crown
  • St. Barbara, Xanten Cathedral
  • Anna selbdritt, Berlin, sculpture collection

literature

  • Barbara Rommé: The workshop of Dries Holthuis and the relationships with Henrick van Holt and Henrick Douwermann and Reinhard Karrenbrock: Dries Holthuis and his works from Baumberger sandstone , in: Against the current. Masterpieces of Lower Rhine sculpture during the Reformation. Exhibition catalog Suermondt-Museum Aachen, 1996, pp. 17–27 and 79–96.
  • Guido de Werd (ed. :) u. a. : Dries Holthuys. A master of the Middle Ages from Kleve , exhibition catalog Kurhaus Kleve, 2002. In addition, the critical review by Barbara Rommé in Kunstchronik, 2003, pp. 415–422.
  • E. Kasten: Holthuys , in: Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, Vol. 74, 2012, pp. 327–328.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The General artist encyclopedia calls him in 2012 the most important sculptors in the Lower Rhine 1492-1508 .
  2. ↑ Rummy, pp. 19-27
  3. ^ Jaap Leeuwenberg: Laat middeleeuwsche beeldhouwkunst en hare ontleeningen . In: Oud-Holland, 59.1942, pp. 118–123 and then J. Leeuwenberg: Laat Eenige toeschrijvingen aan werk van den Kleefschen beeldhouwer Dries Holthuys . In: Oud-Holland, 59.1942, pp. 164-169
personal data
SURNAME Holthuys, Dries
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holthuis, Andreas; Master of the Emmerich candlestick crown (emergency name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1508