Esaias Gruber
Esaias Gruber the Elder (* around 1530 ; † around 1595 in Lindau ) and Esaias Gruber the Younger (* around 1561 in Lindau; † before 1630 ) were important sculptors in the Lake Constance area around 1600.
The stonemason and architect Esaias Gruber d. Ä. moved from Rorschach to Lindau and settled there. His son, baptized in 1561, is one of the most important contemporary sculptors in the region after Jörg Zürn and Hans Morinck . Esaias Gruber lived and worked in the house at Cramergasse 9, which was probably built by him around 1600, on the Lindau island, a monogram and coat of arms above the door indicate this. His artist signature AEG (Aesaias Gruber) can be found last in Hohenems in 1627, he probably died before 1630. The tomb of Esaias Gruber the Elder. Ä. is located in the old cemetery in Aeschach - the original epitaph is in the Lindau City Museum .
Decorations with female angels, snail and ribbon ornaments as well as acanthus leaves are typical for the Lindau sculpture workshop Esaias Gruber Vater and Sohn.
Works (selection)
- Wood relief Marientod , 1600, 58 × 90 cm; City Museum Lindau
- Moated castle
- An artistically valuable epitaph for Pastor Baumgartner on the outer wall of the Georgskirche in Wasserburg probably came from Esaias Gruber
- Götzis
- In 1557 Gruber designed the sacrament house in the old parish church of St. Ulrich in Götzis .
- Hohenems
- Under the direction of the Italian architect Martino Longhi the Elder , sculptor Esaias Gruber the Elder created Ä. in the palace in Hohenems the statues and reliefs for the palace courtyard and the parish church.
- The parish church in Hohenems (so-called "Hannibal Church") was built between 1576 and 1580 according to plans by Esaias Gruber. In 1796, today's parish church of St. Karl Borromeo was built in its place.
- Lochau
- The renaissance high altar designed by Gruber from the former Hofen / Lochau castle chapel is now in the lake chapel in Bregenz .
literature
- Laur: Esaias Gruber the old and young. Two Lindau sculptors. A contribution to the history of Renaissance sculpture on Lake Constance. In: New Year's Journal of the Lindau-Bodensee Museum Association , No. 8, Stettner, Lindau 1933
- Werner Dobras: New Year's Sheet 26 of the Lindau Museum Association - Lindau Personalities , 1981
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christof Spuler, Werner Dobras: Lindau city and art guide. Verlag Friedrich Stadler, Konstanz 1984, p. 46.
- ↑ Graves in the Old Aeschacher Friedhof ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
