Felix Lindtmayer the Younger

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Felix Lindtmayer the Younger, (also Lindtmeyer) (* around 1524 in Schaffhausen ; † October 5, 1574 there ), was a Swiss glass painter , member of the Schaffhausen City Court and the Grand Council .

Life

Felix Lindtmayer was the son of the glass painter Felix Lindtmayer the Elder († 1543), whose father Sebastian Lindtmayer had moved to Schaffhausen from southern Germany. He worked as a glass painter and glazier in Schaffhausen. In 1546 he carried out flat painting work in Laufen Castle . From 1549 to 1550 Felix Lindtmayer participated in the design of the murals on the Fronwagturm in Schaffhausen. From 1557 he accompanied a group of mercenaries on a campaign through France as a scribe for a year.

Felix Lindtmayer worked at the Hohentwiel Fortress from 1569 to 1570 . He then became a member of the Schaffhausen City Court and, from 1571, in the Grand Council . He often got into conflict with the authorities.

Felix Lindtmayer was married twice. In 1544 he married Anna Sattler - a connection from which the well-known draftsman Daniel Lindtmayer emerged , but which did not go well and ended with Lindtmayer's wife being exiled from Schaffhausen after a stay in prison and died unknown. In 1564 he married Anna Schmid.

Felix Lindtmayer died in 1574 as a result of a fall from a window. His second wife and her new husband continued the workshop until 1586, when it was closed. The Lindtmayer family of glass painters came to an end after four generations.

From Lindtmayer's workshop, Tobias Stimmer (1539–1584) emerged as the outstanding artist of the future .

plant

A parish disk from Osterfingen around 1550 is attributed to the younger Felix Lindtmayer , today in the collection of the Museum zu Allerheiligen . In the same collection there is a drawing by him from 1573. A stand disk from 1549 of his works has also been preserved (town hall Unterstammheim ) and other disks in the Musée d'art et d'histoire, Neuchâtel .

Lindtmayer portrayed himself on one of his friendship discs, as can be seen on his wooden leg.

literature

  • Otto Stiefel: The stained glass of the All Saints Museum in Schaffhausen. In: Schaffhauser Allerheiligen Bücherei No. 6. Ed. Museumsverein Schaffhausen with the support of the government council, the city council and the Peyer's Tobias Stimmer Foundation.
  • Tapan Bhattacharya: Felix Lindtmayer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Tapan Bhattacharya: Lindtmayer, Felix. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ a b c Hans Steiner: Daniel Lindtmayer. In: Schaffhauser Contributions to History. Biographies Volume IV. 58th year 1981, pp. 139-148. ( PDF; 108 kB )
  3. ↑ Otto Stiefel: The glass paintings of the All Saints Museum in Schaffhausen. P. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Lindtmayer, Felix the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindtmayer, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1524
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1574
Place of death Schaffhausen