Erhart Falckener

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Erhart Falckener also Erhart Valckener , Erhard Falkner and Erhard Falkener was a Bavarian master of carpentry and flat-cut technology , who built late-Gothic church furniture at the end of the 15th century and beginning of the 16th century, on the Middle Rhine , in the Rheingau and in today's Rheinhessen .

Life

From three factory signatures that have been preserved on the church stalls he made , it is known that Falckener came from Abensberg in Bavaria and temporarily lived in Gau-Odernheim (Rhineland-Palatinate). There are no other reliable sources about its origin. Falckener brought back techniques from his homeland that led to the formation of an enclave of late Gothic church furniture with southern German and Alpine characteristics on the central Rhine. The end of his workshop is estimated at around 1524.

Works

Calligraphic flat cut by Erhart Falckeners (right: "maria", left: "jesus"): eastern front of the southern bank group of the simultaneous church in Bechtolsheim
Justice spiral - parish church St. Valentinus in Kiedrich

Falckener's signed works can be found in Bechtolsheim, Weinheim and Kiedrich:

  • Lay stalls in the Simultankirche St. Maria and St. Christophorus in Bechtolsheim from 1496. Thanks to a restoration between 1974 and 1976, the entire original paintwork of the stalls was exposed and restored - a remarkable rarity.
  • Rest of lay chairs in the St. Gallus Church in Weinheim , also from 1496.
  • Lay stalls in the parish church of St. Valentinus in Kiedrich from 1510. Similar to the first mentioned work, this is the rare case of a completely preserved late Gothic parish chair . Falckener's spiral of justice is best known .

Hildegard Sobel (see bibliography) assigns the following additional works to the master Erhart Falckener on the basis of extensive architectural and style comparisons (chronological order):

According to the same study, the following works can be assigned to the Falckener successor:

  • St. Margaretha in Oberheimbach : Pulpit (1517)
  • Assumption of the Virgin in Niederheimbach : vestry cabinet (1518)
  • Evangelical mountain church (St. Pankratius) in Udenheim : lordship stalls, rest of lay stalls (around 1518)
  • Evangelical parish church (St. Oswald) in Manubach : lay chairs, lost gallery balustrade (1524)

Art-historical classification

The furniture construction technique Falckener corresponds to the late Gothic building program of the time and the state of the art documented by other traditional choir stalls and secular furniture (seats, cupboards and chests) in the southern German-speaking area. What is remarkable, however, is the wide range of design techniques, shapes and materials used by his workshop. His flat-cut work is relatively roughly carved and richly colored, while his tracery , on the other hand - as is common in southern Germany and the Alpine region - is very delicate. Falckener often places finely carved tracery on the flat-cut surfaces of his church furniture. His plant ornaments show a change from the traditional stylized acanthus and thistle motifs to naturalistic representations of plants such as vines, hops, honeysuckle, guns, etc. In addition, Falckener is characterized by the frequent and diverse use of texts. He uses content from popular religious literature from the pre-Reformation period. His favorite fonts are Gothic minuscule and Antiqua - capitals . With the Reformation and the beginning of the Renaissance , the late Gothic art of the Falckener school went out of fashion.

Awards and honors

  • In Gau-Odernheim there is an "Erhard-Falkner-Straße".
  • In Kiedrich im Rheingau there has been an "Erhart-Falckener-Platz" since May 2nd, 2010

literature

  • Werner Kremer, 500 years of lay stalls 1510 - 2010 in the St. Valentinus Church in Kiedrich im Rheingau created by Erhart Falckener (documentation), self-published: Förderkreis Kiedricher Geschichts- und Kulturzeugen eV, Kiedrich im Rheingau 2010; www.kiedrich-geschichte.de
  • Werner Kremer, Falckener Erhart in Kiedricher Personalities from Seven Centuries (pp. 45–49), self-published Förderkreis Kiedricher Geschichts- und Kulturzeugen eV, Kiedrich im Rheingau 2008
  • Josef Staab , The spiral of justice by Erhart Falckener and its importance in the time of the Reformation and the Peasant War , Rheingau Forum, issue 4/1998 ( ISSN  0942-4474 ), pp. 10-15
  • Hildegard Sobel, The church furniture by Erhart Falckener and his workshop with special consideration of flat carving , self-published by the Society for Middle Rhine Church History, Mainz 1980 (dissertation)

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personal data
SURNAME Falckener, Erhart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valckener, Erhart; Falkner, Erhard; Falkener, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian master of carpentry and flat-cut technology
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century