Gerhard Ramsler

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Gerhard Ramsler (* 1530 in Deventer ; † in June 1612 at the latest in Augsburg ) was a German stone carver and painter of Dutch origin. He was the father of the painter Anton Ramsler and a grandfather of Jacob Ramsler .

Life

Gerhard Ramsler was a son of the stone carver of the same name who lived in Deventer († 1548). He was Protestant. He learned his trade from his father, and later he also took over his workshop. Because of the persecution used by Duke Alba , he first moved to Antwerp , but at the end of the 1550s he left his Dutch homeland and went to southern Germany. He first settled in Straubing , where he found a Protestant community that was ready to accept him. On June 12, 1559, he married Margaret Piesndorfer (around 1535-1612), daughter of the baker Simon Piesendorfer from Essing, in Regensburg . In Straubing he first worked as a stone carver, although he was referred to as the “painter of Antwerp” at the wedding ceremony. His only son Anton was born there. Gerhard Ramsler increasingly worked as a painter.

Since under Duke Albrecht V Bavaria was supposed to become purely Catholic again and the repression of Protestants began in Straubing, Ramsler looked for another settlement option. In 1570 he applied for a work permit in Ulm . On April 29, 1570 he received a permit, limited to Michaelmas (September 29), which obliged him to leave the city afterwards. Then Ramsler settled in Augsburg, where he reached the ripe old age of 83.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ On June 24, 1612, Sibilla Ramsler b. Brentel, widow of the only son Anton, and his son Elias to the Senate of the University of Tübingen with the request for intercession in Augsburg about their inheritance. (University Archives Tübingen 2/9 fol. 184 ').
  2. ↑ a b c d e The path of life and suffering of M. Johann Gerhard Ramsler… , pp. 15–17.
  3. ↑ a b Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings of the Tübingen university portrait collection ... , p. 208
  4. ↑ Margaret Ramsler died half a year before her husband, probably already in 1611.
  5. ↑ "Maister Gerharten Ramslern, painter from Straubingen, is privileged to keep himself with his wife and child all here until Michaelis in the future and to bestow someone with someone ... But after such a time he should move away again." (Hans Rott: Sources and Research ... , p. 39)

literature

  • Life and suffering of M. Johann Gerhard Ramsler, Specials on Freudenstadt (1635–1703). The memoirs of a rural pastor from Württemberg . Edited by Uwe Jens Wandel, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1993, ISBN 3-17-012566-4 (= living past, 15)
  • 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
  • Hans Rott : Sources and research on southwest German and Swiss art history in the XV. and XVI. Century. II, Old Swabia and Imperial Cities , Stuttgart: Strecker and Schröder 1934
personal data
SURNAME Ramsler, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramsler, Gerhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stone carver and painter of Dutch origin
DATE OF BIRTH 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Deventer
DATE OF DEATH 1612
Place of death augsburg