Georg Rieder III

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Georg Rieder III , also Georg Rieder the Younger or Jörg Rieder III , (around * 1540 in Weißenhorn ; † 1575 ) was a German painter and cartographer who worked in Ulm . He was a town painter there and with his works, of which only portraits have survived, brought a “reflection of the Italian Renaissance” to painting in Ulm, something that Martin Schaffner (around 1478–1546 / 49) and Georg Rieder II (around 1510 -1564) had done. Then there was his less conspicuous cartographic work. After Martin Schaffner, Georg Rieder III is the most important representative of Ulm painting of the 16th century.

Origin and career

A portrait (the bearded man in the middle right) of Georg Rieder III in the painting Last Judgment (detail) by his uncle Georg Rieder II from 1562. The bearded man to the left of the middle is Rieder II

The Rieder family, active from 1472 to 1611, produced a number of painters. His grandfather, Georg Rieder I (around 1472– around 1550), was a freelance painter in Weißenhorn and his uncle, Georg Rieder II (around 1510–1564), was a town painter in Ulm. Nothing is known about his father, Rupprecht Rieder († around 1549).

Georg certainly completed his apprenticeship in his uncle's workshop in Ulm. He also worked - probably already as a journeyman - for some time with the Wittelsbach court painter Hans Mielich (1516–1564) in Munich , which was quite essential for his artistic development. Because Mielich, a visitor to Italy (1541), conveyed something of Italian art to him, which later enabled him to help shape the “Ulm Renaissance”.

In spring 1564 Georg Rieder III took over the Ulm workshop of his deceased uncle. He then immediately applied for citizenship, which the council had promised him if he were to marry a citizen's daughter. He complied: on August 29, 1564 he married the daughter Magdalena of the pewter founder Stefan Fürst, who had just died, and on the same day became a citizen of Ulm. He was probably also officially appointed town painter soon afterwards.

Seven portraits (two signed and five ascribed to him) of his painted work, which clearly shows his artistic development during his activity in Ulm, have survived, all of them portraits of Ulm personalities (councilors, scholars etc.) and their wives. In 1572 he painted portraits of Daniel Schad (councilor and mayor of Ulm) and his wife Regina Schleicher. The paintings, oil on wood and 83 × 112 cm, are now in the Ulmer Museum .

In 1570 Georg Rieder III etched a view of Ulm, which was quite significant because it showed the city in the wreath of the medieval walling before the new fortification.

In 1572 Georg Rieder III was loaned to the Margraviate of Burgau , where he created cartographic recordings as evidence for the negotiation of a territorial dispute. Nothing has been preserved from this contrafacture of the Burgawian margin .

Georg Rieder III died in an unknown location in 1575. On June 4, 1578, the painter and cartographer Philipp Renlin (around 1545–1598) was appointed as his successor as town painter in Ulm . In 1581 he also acquired the Rieder workshop for the rather high sum of 510  guilders .

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. 193, p. 944, p. 969. ISBN 3-923132-08-5 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Othmar Metzger: The Rieder family of painters (1958), p. 249.
  2. ↑ Othmar Metzger: The Rieder family of painters (1958), p. 247.
  3. ↑ Othmar Metzger: The Rieder family of painters (1958), p. 248.
  4. ^ Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe: The Renaissance in the German Southwest between the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War (1986), p. 193.
  5. ↑ Ruthardt Oehme: The history of cartography of the German Southwest (1961), p. 98.
  6. ↑ Othmar Metzger: The Rieder family of painters (1958), p. 248.
  7. ↑ Othmar Metzger: The Rieder family of painters (1958), p. 254.
personal data
SURNAME Rieder, Georg III
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rieder the Younger, Georg; Rieder III, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenhorn
DATE OF DEATH 1575