Glockendon (artist family)

Glockendon , also Glockenthon , is a Nuremberg artist family of the 15th and 16th centuries.

• Albert Glockendon the Elder, b. around 1432 in Nuremberg, engraver . He worked temporarily in Würzburg.
  • Georg Glockendon the Elder († 1514 ), painter, graphic artist and illuminist. His Behaim globe is famous.
    • Albrecht Glockendon the Elder († 1545), form cutter, illuminist and letter painter
    • Georg Glockendon the Younger (1492–1553)
    • Nikolaus Glockendon , miniature painter ; adorned a number of mass and prayer books with border decorations and miniatures, died in 1560 .
      • Twelve sons, all of whom became artists.
      • Albrecht Glockendon the Younger, was a glass painter , shape cutter , illuminist . He worked in Nuremberg until 1543 .

literature

• Rudolf Bergau:  bell end . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 238.
• Peter Strieder:  bell end. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 457 ( digitized version ).
• AKL.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Glockendon the Younger , entry in the German National Library