Elias Brentel
Elias Brentel (actually Helias Brentel ; born January 8, 1567 in Lauingen , † around October 11, 1649 in Bayreuth ) was a painter in Franconia . He was a son of the painter Georg Brentel the Elder , and a brother of the painters David and Friedrich Brentel .
Life
Elias Brentel was the seventh child (second son) from his father's marriage to his first wife Barbara. He learned the painting trade from his father. In contrast to David, Elias left Lauingen and settled in Burglengenfeld in 1597 . Probably there he married his first wife Veronica, with whom he had at least two sons who also became painters. His activity in Burglengenfeld has not yet been investigated. From 1622 he lived in Bayreuth and held the post of town painter. However, he also worked for the Margrave Christian . In February 1622 he painted a stalking cart, a stag's head and a deer's head for him for 13 fl . His wife died in Bayreuth at the age of 58 and was buried on April 18, 1624. On October 9, 1626, he married his second wife Catharina there.
With his son from his first marriage, Friedrich, he painted the church of St. Bartholomew in Mistelbach from 1632 . The work mainly included the decoration of the (first) gallery on the three sides of the nave, which had recently been built. A total of 25 paintings with scenes from the Gospels were created on the outside of the gallery balustrade, which were composed as horizontally arranged ovals. Brentel used small (9.6 × 7 cm) woodcuts by Jost Amman as a template . A large panel painting The Last Judgment was created on the choir wall (above the arch) , which takes up the entire width of the wall.
After Friedrich's early death in 1636, Elias Brentel created the gallery pictures in the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Bayreuth in 1637 . Following the example of the Biblia pauperum, the series of pictures depicts the salvation history of the New Testament in 30 pictures, for which Elias Brentel received a benefice in the hospital. Brentel based the motifs on the woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer from the Little Passion (1509–11). The pictures were taken in the originally Gothic, Renaissance-style church and they were taken over and integrated into the baroque, classicist-looking new building (1748–1750). They are located on the outer wall of the parapet of both galleries to the left and right of the ship. The story told begins in the church on the left gallery on the far left with the birth of Jesus and ends on the right gallery on the far right with Pentecost. The series of pictures was restored in 1749 when it was transferred to the new church building and sometimes later, but is now in a very poor condition - the pictures have darkened mainly due to candle soot.
Sons
- Hans Friedrich (* around 1600 in Burglengenfeld (?); † 1634 in Bayreuth (?))
- Friedrich (* around 1606 in Burglengenfeld (?); † 1636 in Bayreuth)
Received works
- 1632 25 paintings on the first gallery and one large painting ( The Last Judgment ) on the choir wall in St. Bartholomew's Church in Mistelbach
- 1637 30 paintings on the gallery in the Bayreuth Hospital Church
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Buried on October 14th .
- ^ Gerhard Schön: Münz- und Geldgeschichte ... , p. 298; Date of birth: RH Seitz: On the question of the Lauingen painters ... , p. 28 according to parish register
- ↑ Reinhard H. Seitz: On the question ... , p. 28
- ↑ a b Gerhard Schön: Münz- und Geldgeschichte ... , p. 126
- ^ Herbert Klug: Evang.-Luth. Parish Church of St. Bartholomew ... , p. 15
- ↑ It cannot be ruled out that the decoration of St. Bartholomew's Church carried out by Brentel consisted of other elements. However, the church was raised at the beginning of the 18th century to incorporate the second gallery and equipped with a new wooden ceiling.
- ^ Herbert Reber: Spitalkirche Bayreuth , p. 2
literature
- Gerhard Schön: Coin and monetary history of the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth in the 17th and 18th centuries , dissertation, Munich 2008
- Herbert Klug: Evang.-Luth. Parish church of St. Bartholomäus Mistelbach , Bayreuth: Upper Franconian Postcard Publishing House Bouillon o. J. [approx. 1998]
- Herbert Reber: Spitalkirche Bayreuth , [self-published by the Bayreuth Hospital Foundation], undated [approx. 1996]
- Reinhard Hermann Seitz: On the question of the Lauingen painter Georg Brentel . In: “Yearbook of the Historical Association Dillingen” LXI – LXIII, Dillingen-Donau 1961, pp. 25–36
- Karl Sitzmann: Artists and craftsmen in Eastern Franconia , Kulmbach I 1957, II, III 1962, IV 1976 (reprint 1983)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brentel, Elias |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brentel, Helias (real name); Brendel, Elias; Prendtel, Elias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Painter in Franconia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1567 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lauingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | around October 11, 1649 |
| Place of death | Bayreuth |