Ghert Klinghe

The bronze fifth by Ghert Klinghe in the Segeberg Marienkirche

The Maria Gloriosa in Bremen Cathedral

Ghert Klinghe , also Gherd Klinghe, Gerd Klinge (* around 1400 , † after 1474 ) was a German ore caster and at the same time the most important representative of a family of ore founders of his name, which may include his father of the same name and his sons Hermann (Harm), Goteke, Hinrich (Hinderk) and Barthold Klinghe.

Life

So few dates of life are known to Ghert Klinghe that due to mere identical names it was assumed that he was a canon in the Harsefeld monastery . In the meantime, however, he has been a citizen of Bremen since 1428.

Style of mounting the jewelry to the bells and the wording of the caster spells have the effect of caster Hans Apengeter from Halberstadt space and, especially in the early work of Lubeck caster van der Rit out.

He and his sons operated in Bremen or as a traveling foundry the most important picture and ore foundry in northern Germany of the 15th century for bells and bronze fths , some of which are still mainly in East Frisia , but in churches there as far as Schleswig and Lüneburg . It is documented that in 1466 he cast a big bell for the Marienkirche in Lübeck . Figurative wooden models were used for the casting , which were not supplied by the foundrymen themselves, but by local carvers . The attribution is usually simple, since the cast works with verse like

Master Ghert Klinge de mi ghoten

Ghot gheve siner Sele Council

were signed as it were. The sons then only adjusted the founder's first name to match theirs.

A baptismal font cast in 1483 by his son Goteke Klinghe (signed: “[gote] ke klinghe de mi goten had”) entered the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1941 .

Works (selection)

• Maria Gloriosa bell in Bremen Cathedral from 1433
• Bronze bell in St. Crispinus and Crispianus Church in Elsfleth from 1433 (not preserved)
• Bronze bell in St. Cosmae and Damiani Church in Hambergen from 1436
• Apostle bell and big bell bell on St. Johannis in Lüneburg from 1436
• Bronze bell in St. Bartholomew's Church in Golzwarden from 1440
• Bronze bell in St. Lamberti Church in Oldenburg from 1440 (not preserved)
• Bronze bell in St. Florian Church in Sillenstede from 1440
• Bronze bell in the St. Nikolai Church in Wiesede from 1440 (whereabouts unknown)
• Bronze bell in the St. Katharinen Church in Bliedersdorf from 1444
• Bronze baptism from 1447 in the Segeberg Marienkirche
• two bronze bells in the St. Alexander Church in Wildeshausen from 1448 (only one preserved)
• Marienglocke from 1449 in St. Hippolyt in Blexen (not preserved)
• a bell for a church in Delmenhorst from 1449 (not preserved)
• the oldest bell from 1450 in the Severikirche in Otterndorf
• Bronze bell in the St. Marien Church in Oldorf (Wangerland) from 1450
• Mary's bell for the church in Burhave from 1452
• Bronze bell in St. Mary's Church in Großenkneten from 1452 (not preserved)
• Prayer bell from 1454 in the bell tower of St. Dionysii Church in Asel (Wittmund)
• Bronze baptism from 1454 in the St. Petrus Church in Groothusen , East Frisia
• Bronze bell in the St. Marien and Bartholomäi Church in Harsefeld from 1454
• Bronze baptism from 1455 in Harsefeld Church
• Bronze bell in St. Nicolai Church in Pewsum from 1458
• Gloriosa bell from 1459 in St. Catherine's Church in Misselwarden
• Bronze bell in the town church in Jever from 1461
• Bronze bell in St. Matthew's Church in Bingum from 1463 or 1464 (not preserved)
• Marien bell of the Uttum church from 1465
• Bronze bell in the St. Laurentius Church in Langwarden from 1468 (cracked; stands in front of the church)
• two bronze bells in St. Bartholomew's Church in Tossens from 1468 (not preserved)
• Bronze bell in the St. Laurentius Church in dismantled from 1471 (not preserved)
• Bronze bell in the Wasserhorster Church in Wasserhorst from 1474

literature

• Klinghe, Ghert. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 375–376 ( digitized [PDF; 9.5 MB; accessed on October 28, 2019] pp. 34–35).
• Barbara Hellwig: Ghert Klinghe. A northern German ore caster in the 15th century . Lax Verlag, 1967, ISBN 978-3-8269-3469-8 .
• Barbara Hellwig:  Ghert Klinghe. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 94 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Blade . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 186 f. (Family item)
• Klaus Lutze: The Bremen foundryman Goteke Klinghe and his bronze baptismal font in Boston. In: Low German contributions to art history. Volume 39, 2000, pp. 9-28.
• Ernst Schütze: The house of the bell foundry family Klinge in Bremen. In: Ernst Schütze: Additions to streets, houses and families. Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2015, pp. 47–54.
• Matthias Dichter: The Misselwarden church bell "Gloriosa". A legendary medieval bell from the workshop of Ghert Klinghe . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 838 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven October 2019, p. 2–3 ( digitized version [PDF; 3.9 MB ; accessed on October 28, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Ghert Klinghe  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Ghert Klinghe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ghert Klinghe in the biographical lexicon for East Frisia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ so Krause in the ADB, Volume 16, p. 186
2. ^ So the Biographical Lexicon for Ostfriesland ( digitized version ) and Barbara Hellwig in the NDB Volume 12 p. 94 ff.
3. ^ MFA, Boston: With provenance By 1722, John Churchhill (1650-1722), Duke of Marlborough, Oxfordshire, England. By 1890, Baron Seillière (Chateau de Mello) Oise, France; May 5-10, 1890, Seillière sale, Georges Petit, Paris, lot 429. By 1938, Clarence H. Mackay (1874-1938), Roslyn, NY (see note 1); 1941, sold by Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, on behalf of the estate of Clarence H. Mackay to the MFA for $ 15,000. (Accession Date: June 5, 1941)