Ebert Wolf the Younger

The "Götterpforte", the magnificent door in the Golden Hall of Bückeburg Castle

The wooden decorations under the ribbed vault of the Bückeburg Palace Chapel were created by Ebert Wolf the Elder. J. with his brother Jonas

View of the altar table in the castle chapel and the pulpit , by Ebert Wolf the Elder. J. and his brother Jonas

Ebert Wolf the Younger (* around 1560 in Hildesheim ; † 1608/ 1609 ) was a German sculptor of the Renaissance .

life and work

Wolf the Younger was the son of the sculptor Ebert Wolf the Elder and the brother of Jonas Wolf and Hans Wolf .

He was mentioned for the first time in the lap registers of Hildesheim in 1591 , where he initially created numerous gravestones under his father's monogram EBW as an employee of his father , of which he designed the younger ones alone.

In 1603 he went with his father and his brothers to Bückeburg to work for Count Ernst III. to step to Schaumburg .

The works of Wolf include

for the chapel of Bückeburg Castle
- an altar table
- and - together with his brother Jonas - three pulpit reliefs for the chapel,
- and, also with Jonas, the wooden decorations under the ribbed vault , as well
the grand door of the Golden Hall in Bückeburg Castle.

literature

Paul Jonas Meier : The Wolf family of sculptors from Hildesheim. In: Alt-Hildesheim. No. 7, 1926, pp. 12-25; Issue 12, 1933, pp. 40-46.
Wolf, Ebert the Elder Young. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 194 .
Wolf, Ebert, also Wolff, Wulf . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 10 : Thies-Zymalkowski . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096381-6 , p. 719 ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Christine Wulf: DI 88, Hildesheim district, No. 197 . urn : nbn: de: 0238-di088g016k0019707 ( inschriften.net ).

Sabine Wehking: DI 56, City of Braunschweig II, No. 624 . urn : nbn: de: 0238-di056g009k0062403 ( inschriften.net ).

Sabine Wehking: DI 56, City of Braunschweig II, No. 629 (†) . urn : nbn: de: 0238-di056g009k0062905 ( inschriften.net ).

Individual evidence

↑ In the style of late Renaissance and Mannerism of Ebert Wolf the Younger and his brother Hans Wolf created
^ ^A ^b Jeffrey Chipps Smith: Wulff family [Wolff, Wolf] . In: The Grove Dictionary of Art . Macmillan, Basingstoke, ISBN 978-1-884446-05-4 , doi : 10.1093 / gao / 9781884446054.article.T092398 (English).
^ Pulpit wall of the castle chapel of Schloss Bückeburg with photographs of the same in the picture index of art and architecture
↑ Raimund Cremers: Before the painting falls from the ceiling. In: Schaumburger Nachrichten . August 15, 2013; sn-online.de accessed on February 20, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Wolf, Ebert the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wolf, Eberhard; Wolf, Eckbert; Wulf, Eberhard; Wulf, Ebert; Wulf, Eckbert; Wulff, Eberhard; Wulff, Ebert; Wulff, Eckbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor in Bückeburg and Hildesheim
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1560
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH	1608 or 1609
Place of death	Hildesheim

[1] In the style of late Renaissance and Mannerism of Ebert Wolf the Younger and his brother Hans Wolf created

[Grove-2] A ^b Jeffrey Chipps Smith: Wulff family [Wolff, Wolf] . In: The Grove Dictionary of Art . Macmillan, Basingstoke, ISBN 978-1-884446-05-4 , doi : 10.1093 / gao / 9781884446054.article.T092398 (English).

[3] Pulpit wall of the castle chapel of Schloss Bückeburg with photographs of the same in the picture index of art and architecture

[4] Raimund Cremers: Before the painting falls from the ceiling. In: Schaumburger Nachrichten . August 15, 2013; sn-online.de accessed on February 20, 2015.