Erasmus Grasser

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Maria and Johannes, around 1480, lime wood with color and gilding, from the church in Pipping, Bavarian National Museum in Munich
Magician , a morris dancer (Munich City Museum) with a lion-studded cap
Sculpture in Olching The magician ⊙

Erasmus Grasser (* around 1450 in Schmidmühlen ( Upper Palatinate ), † 1518 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and builder .

Life

Grasser came to Munich around 1472 after completing his years of traveling . The guild of painters, carvers, silk sewers and glaziers defends itself against the admission that Grasser is a "pious, cunning and insidious servant". Around 1477 he married Dorothea Kaltenprunner, who came from the lower nobility . As early as 1480, thanks to his great mastery, he was unanimously elected head of the painters' guild , to which the carvers also belonged. In addition to his sculptural skills, he also demonstrated technical skills, he was an expert on hydraulic engineering for the city of Munich and in 1507 received the order from Duke Albrecht IV to renovate the saltworks in Reichenhall .

In 1508, Grasser, the richest artist in Munich, paid taxes on a high income and is one of the wealthiest citizens of Munich - probably due to his marriage. He owned a house in the front Schwabinger Gasse (today's Zechbauer house on the corner of Residenzstrasse / Perusastrasse).

Grasser is the namesake of the Erasmus-Grasser-Gymnasium in Munich and the Erasmus-Grasser-Volksschule in Schmidmühlen. The Erasmus Grasser Prize of the City of Munich and the Erasmus Grasser Promenade in Bad Reichenhall are named after him.

Works

Copy of a morisk dancer in the old town hall in Munich .
  • Moriskentancer , 1480, Altes Rathaus (Munich) (originals today in the permanent exhibition of the Munich City Museum , including the Hochzeiterer )
  • some busts and figures representing apostles and saints from the former Gothic choir stalls in the Frauenkirche , Munich, which have been lost in their entirety
  • Monument to Dean Ulrich Aresinger, 1482, marble, Peterskirche , Munich
  • Image of the Virgin Mary on the north altar in the monastery church of the Birth of Mary, Rottenbuch
  • Further plants in Freising and Reichersdorf
  • Erasmus Grasser was the builder of the Mariaberg monastery complex in Rorschach on Lake Constance from 1481
  • Plans for the extension of the parish church Maria Himmelfahrt in Schwaz , Tyrol .
  • Spring intake Saline Reichenhall (1507), chain creature for the brine, construction of the Brunnenhaus

literature

Web links

Commons : Erasmus Grasser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fredmagazin.de: Carved treasures
  2. ↑ Overview of the life and work of Erasmus Grasser ( Memento of September 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Silberstadt Schwaz: Coming to the parish church Maria Himmelfahrt , accessed on April 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Grasser, Erasmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, sculptor and builder
DATE OF BIRTH around 1450
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmidmühlen , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH 1518
Place of death Munich