Georg Labenwolf

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Georg Labenwolf also Georg Labenwolff (* around 1520 in Nuremberg ; † end of May 1585 there ) was a Franconian ore caster .

Life

Labenwolf was born the son of the ore caster Pankraz Labenwolf and was an apprentice to his father. In 1559 he made his way to Neuburg an der Donau . After his father's death, however, he returned to Nuremberg in 1563 to continue his workshop. For Tycho Brahe's observation castle Uraniborg in Öresund he built a large interior fountain, which like Uraniborg has not survived.

The only work Labenwolf still has today is the fountain in the courtyard of the seminar building of the former Altdorf University , which he created in 1576.

Auctions

  • 1825 in Nuremberg : an inkwell and a sand can.

literature

  • Klaus Pechstein: The Nuremberg ore founders Pankraz u. Georg Labenwolf. In: Gerhard Pfeiffer, Alfred Wendehorst (Hrsg.): Fränkische Lebensbilder. Volume 8. Kommissionsverlag Degener & Co, Würzburg 1978, ( publications of the Society for Franconian History, Series VII A. Volume 8), pp. 70–79.
  • Rudolf Bergau:  Labenwolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 463-465.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DIRECTORY OF THE v.DERSCHAUISCHE Kunstkabinett zu NÜRNBERG .... Nuremberg, at the obligated auctionator Schmidmer., 1825., 250 p., Directory of rare art collections., 1825., Google Books, online , p. 45 ( 19)
personal data
SURNAME Labenwolf, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ore caster
DATE OF BIRTH around 1520
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH May 1585
Place of death Nuremberg