Georg Rieder II
Georg Rieder II , also Georg Rieder the Elder or Jörg Rieder II , (* around 1510 in Weißenhorn , † 1564 in Ulm ) was a German painter and cartographer who mainly worked in Ulm. He was a city painter there and, in addition to oil paintings (altarpieces, portraits, etc.), he also made cartographic recordings of the city and the Ulm area.
Family relationships
The Rieder family, active from 1472 to 1611, produced a number of painters. The first of them was Georg's father, Georg Rieder I (around 1472– around 1550), also Jörg Rieder I, who ran his own workshop in Weißenhorn from around 1501, in which not only portraits but also wood carvings were created. In addition to three sisters, Sibylla, Barbara and Margarete, Georg had two older brothers, Rupprecht and Laux (Lucas). Not much has been handed down from Rupprecht († around 1549). Laux (around 1510– around 1555) worked from 1543 as a goldsmith in Günzburg on the Danube . Laux learned this craft from the goldsmith Matthäus Greiff in Ulm, which proves an early connection between the Rieder family and this city, which was also decisive for Georg Rieder II's life.
Fields of activity
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Georg certainly completed his apprenticeship in his father's workshop in Weißenhorn. After that he was on a journey as a journeyman for several years, which - as can be assumed from the origins of his wife Helena Hainsbeck - led him to Austria.
In 1550 Georg Rieder II settled in Ulm. He took this step because there seemed to be an upswing in the arts there, after artistic creation had reached a low point in the last two decades - among other things through the work of the Reformation ( iconoclasm ). Soon after January 29, 1550 he was granted citizenship in Ulm, and in the same year he was hired as a city painter in direct succession by Martin Schaffner (around 1478–1546 / 49).
First of all, a cartographic work by Georg Rieder II from 1552 has come down to us, which depicts the siege of the city of Ulm during the Prince's War. He also painted two more pictures from the Prince's War. All three pictures are kept in the Ulm Museum . In addition, a map of the city of Ulm emerged from cartographic work in 1559 and a map for the negotiation of a border dispute between Count Georg Fugger and the abbot of the Ursberg monastery in 1560 ; both sheets have been lost.
Around 1560 Georg Rieder II painted the altarpiece, The Last Supper , which depicted Christ and the disciples in a room designed in the Renaissance style. The picture was destroyed in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Ulm during the Second World War (1944) .
In 1562 he created the oil painting Last Judgment (280.5 × 176 cm), the center piece of a triptych whose wing paintings, The Judgment of Cambyses and The Theban Judges , have been lost. In the lower left part of the picture ( Under the Blessed ) Georg Rieder II portrayed himself together with his nephew Georg Rieder III among many children. The picture is exhibited today in the permanent collection of the Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart .
The oil painting Almosenbild (93 × 137 cm), which can still be found in Ulm Minster, also dates from 1562 . This picture also shows a self-portrait by Rieder.
After the death of Georg Rieder II in 1564, his nephew Georg Rieder III, a son of Rupprecht, was a direct successor to the town painter in Ulm.
reception
Georg Rieder II was the first known cartographic representative from the series of Ulm city painters. The German cartographer and geographer Ruthardt Oehme (1901–1987) claims that the painter generally had a tendency towards cartographic representations. This is justified with the image of a globe in the painting of the Last Judgment, which is probably a very daring claim.
There is no doubt about the great ability of Georg Rieder II, because otherwise he would not have been able to gain a foothold in Ulm and become a town painter. The art historian Othmar Metzger says: Rieder's preference in the choice of town painters over the local masters speaks equally for their low artistic level as for Rieder's ability. After all, the Ulm City Council chose him as the city painter as the direct successor to Martin Schaffner, who is well known around Ulm. Even today, Rieder's skills must still be valued when his works are compared with those of his backward, skilled, primitive Ulm colleagues.
On March 6, 1564, Georg Rieder II was entered in the burial lists with the honorable title "artful", which was unique for Ulm in the 16th century.
literature
- Albrecht Weyermann : News from scholars, artists and other strange people from Ulm . In the Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1829, pp. 419-420 digitized , [oldest detailed source, with some errors that were repeatedly written out up to Hans Rott (Metzger)].
- Othmar Metzger: The Rieder family of painters . In: Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz (Hrsg.): Images of life from Bavarian Swabia . Volume 6. Max Hueber Verlag, Munich 1958, pp. 238-258.
- Ruthardt Oehme: The history of the cartography of the German southwest . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Konstanz and Stuttgart 1961, p. 98.
- Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe: The Renaissance in the German Southwest between the Reformation and the Thirty Years War . An exhibition of the state of Baden-Württemberg, 2 volumes, Karlsruhe 1986, p. 192, p. 943 f., P. 969. ISBN 3-923132-08-5 .
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Othmar Metzger: The Rieder family of painters (1958), p. 240.
- ↑ Othmar Metzger: The Rieder family of painters (1958), p. 243.
- ^ Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe: The Renaissance in the German Southwest between the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War (1986), p. 192.
- ↑ Ruthardt Oehme: The history of cartography of the German Southwest (1961), p. 98.
- ↑ Othmar Metzger: The Rieder family of painters (1958), p. 243.
- ↑ Othmar Metzger: The Rieder family of painters (1958), p. 247.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rieder, Georg II |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rieder the Elder, Georg; Rieder II, Jörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and cartographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1510 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weissenhorn |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1564 |
| Place of death | Ulm |