Friedrich Thön

Friedrich Thoen (* 1559 in Regensburg , † after 1610 , but probably only after 1620 ) was a sculptor of the Renaissance , the predominantly in upper and Lower Austria worked.

Life

Friedrich Thön was born in Regensburg, where he was trained between 1571 and 1576 by the sculptor Hans Pötzlinger († 1603 in Klosterneuburg ). From around 1583 until after 1610 he is recorded in Grieskirchen in Upper Austria as a “citizen and sculptor” and ran a flourishing sculptor's workshop there. Friedrich Thenn , Thener or Thein , sculptor from Grieskirchen and member of the Inner Council, who died before 1660, is likely to be himself or a son of the same name, whose widow Elisabeth (* 1584/85) was buried on January 18, 1660 in Regensburg .

Artistic creation

Thön was a master of relief art who supplied his aristocratic , Protestant clientele with artistically high-quality epitaphs . In addition to the signed grave monuments for Georg Wolfgang von Tannberg († 1582) and Hans Adam Jörger († 1591) in Sankt Georgen bei Grieskirchen , a large number of other tombs are ascribed to him and his workshop, e. B. in Aistersheim (Achaz [† 1603] and Katharina Hohenfeld [† 1608]), Altmünster (Gotthard [† 1584] and Apollonia Schärffenberg [† 1587]), Eferding , Gallspach (Hans Christoph Geymann † 1600), Garsten (Georg Achaz Losenstein † 1597), Grieskirchen (Sigmund [† 1598] and Potentiana Polheim [† 1582]), Münzbach ( Lorenz Schütter † 1599), Schleißheim near Wels (Andreas Gruenthaler † 1597; Hans Dietmar [† 1597] and Magdalena Gruenthaler [† 1595) ]), Stadlkirchen bei Dietach (Georg Neuhaus † 1593), Steyr (Wolf Pfefferl † 1597) and others. Many biblical subjects in his reliefs were based on illustrations from the Bible by Johann Bocksberger and Jost Amman , which was published in Frankfurt am Main in 1564 . Frequent motifs were the "resurrection of the dead" according to the vision of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel), "Moses and Paul" as heralds of the old and new faith, the "resurrection of Christ", the "Lord's Supper" and the "adoration of the Christ child".

literature

• Norbert Loidol: On the oeuvre of the Renaissance sculptors Friedrich Thön and Hans Pötzlinger from Regensburg in Upper and Lower Austria. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. 154–155, Linz 2010, pp. 49–190 ( digitized on ZOBODAT ).
• Norbert Loidol: Renaissance in Upper Austria. Weitra 2010.
• Norbert Loidol: Friedrich Thön in the service of noble clients. Additional attributions of works in Upper and Lower Austria to the sculptor who comes from Regensburg and works in Grieskirchen and his workshop. In: Festschrift for Walter Aspernig on his 70th birthday (= 36th yearbook of the Wels Museum Association 2009/2010/2011 ). Wels 2012, pp. 345-362.
• Karl Vocelka, Rudolf Leeb, Andrea Scheichl (eds.): Renaissance and Reformation. Catalog for the Upper Austrian State Exhibition 2010.
• Walter Aspernig, Roland Forster, Elisabeth Gruber: The grave monuments of the parish Grieskirchen. Grieskirchen 2010.
• Eberhard Krauß, Manfred Enzner: Exiles from the Upper Austrian Hausruck and Traun district in Franconia. Nuremberg 2014, p. 175.
• Wolfgang Perr: Community chronicle of Gallspach in 3 volumes. Upper Austrian Provincial Archives Linz, Bad Ischl 2014 ( Online Volume 1 , Online Volume 2 , Online Volume 3 ).