Georg Baur (painter)

Georg Baur (* 1572 in Tübingen , † 1635 in Strasbourg ) was a Württemberg painter who lived and worked in Tübingen. He was later also the mayor and landscape delegate of Tübingen.

Life

Georg Baur was the eldest son of the Tübingen citizen Adam Baur and his wife Christina geb. Waiblinger. His grandfather Caspar lived in "Ötingen" (probably Oettingen ). In 1594 Baur married Lucretia Dorn, the widow of the Stuttgart painter Hans Dorn , in Stuttgart , probably in order to settle in Tübingen, as Werner Fleischhauer suspects.

There is only sparse information about his activity as a painter in the documents on craft orders. In 1594 or shortly afterwards, Baur decorated the bay window of the Tübingen town hall together with Apelles Schickhardt . 1617 he painted together with Conrad Welber the newly, designed by Heinrich Schickhardt built Neptune Fountain (with the figure of Neptune by Georg Müller ) in the marketplace. Baur certainly also painted portraits, as can be seen from his participation (together with Jacob Ramsler , Hans Philipp Greter and Conrad Melperger ) in the protest of 1611 against the activities of Hans Ulrich Alt in Tübingen, but nothing is known about these portraits.

After the death of his first wife Lucretia, Baur married M. Salome Broll in 1606, a daughter of the pastor Jakob Broll in Magstadt .

The family apparently had a good reputation. His younger brother Hans even married a noblewoman in 1607 (Ursula Brümlin von Ofterdingen). Apparently thanks to its good reputation, its public career began at the end of the second decade of the 17th century. One can assume that from that point on he stopped painting. In 1619 Baur became a relative of the court and a member of the select committee of the landscape. It is surprising that he was immediately elected to the court and not - as was usual - to the council. In 1621 he was also a member of the countryside and in 1623 mayor of Tübingen. In 1625 he - together with Jacob Ramsler - was commissioned with an expert opinion to determine whether the potter and sculptor Abraham Burckhardt II had the appropriate professional qualifications for the branch in Tübingen. In 1634, after the lost battle of Nördlingen , he lost the office of court relatives and mayor and left Tübingen. He found - similar to Duke Eberhard III. - Refuge in Strasbourg, where he died the following year.

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Rudolf Seigel: Court and Council… . P. 173
2. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 368. - However, he does not explain what kind of connection there could be between the marriage of the widow of a Stuttgart painter and the branch in Tübingen.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 368
4. ↑ August Wintterlin: Zur Tübinger Bau- und Kunstgeschichte , p. 311
5. ↑ Hans Klaiber: Archival articles on the history of goldsmithing, painting and sculpture in the time of the Württemberg ducal . In: Württemberg past, commemorative publication of the Württemberg history and antiquity association for the Stuttgart conference of the entire association of German history and antiquity associations in September 1932 , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1932, p. 342 u. 344

literature

• Werner Fleischhauer : Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1971
• Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings of the Tübingen university portrait collection - a contribution to the history of painting of the late Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg . In: Werner Fleischhauer u. a .: New contributions to the history of the south-west of Germany. Festschrift for Max Miller , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1962, pp. 197–216
• Rudolf Seigel: Court and Council in Tübingen. From the beginnings to the introduction of the municipal constitution 1818–1822 , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1960 (= publication of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg)
• August Wintterlin : On the history of architecture and art in Tübingen . In: "Württembergische Vierteljahreshefte für Landesgeschichte", Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1882, pp. 311–312