Hans Degler

Detail of one of Degler's three main works in Augsburg, in St. Ulrich and St. Afra (Augsburg)

The Weilheimer Hans Degler (* 1564 , † 1635 ) was an important sculptor of the southern Bavarian late Renaissance and the early phase of the Baroque .

Life

Madonna at the high altar of the monastery church Aldersbach

Hans Degler was born in Munich (?) In 1564 as the son of the Weilheim sculptor of the same name. He received his education either from his father or from his later father-in-law Adam Krumpper (the father of Hans Krumpper ). He created his first surviving works for the chapel of Duchess Maria Maximilliana at the Munich court from 1590–1595 in collaboration with Adam Krumpper. In 1590 Degler married Helena Krumpper († 1627) and received Weilheim citizenship.

After the death of his father-in-law, he took over his workshop, in which he employed a large number of employees and trained a new generation of well-known artists ( Christoph Angermair , Hans Jakob Zürn and others). His brother-in-law Hans Krumpper brokered influential commissions for him, such as for the Reichsstift St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg and the Kremsmünster Abbey in Upper Austria. From 1607 to 1628 Degler Weilheimer was a member of the council (from 1617 he belonged to the advisory board of the Inner Council) and in 1627 he married a second time. After 1628 he got into financial difficulties and died impoverished of the plague in Weilheim in 1635. Degler had two brothers who were also active as sculptors (one in Vienna). The marriage to Helena Krumpper resulted in two sons (David, Andreas) who followed their father professionally. Many works have been preserved by David Degler (1605–1682), who continued his father's workshop.

Works

Angels at the high altar of the Polling monastery church

Hans Degler's outstanding main works are the 3 monumental 21 and 23 m high altars in the Augsburg collegiate church of St. Ulrich and Afra . These contain a total of 270 individual figures.

Catalog of works (selection)

Maria Immaculata in the Marienmünster in Dießen

• complete figure decoration on the high altar of the collegiate church St. Ulrich and Afra Augsburg (1603/1604)
• complete figurines on the Pentecost altar of the collegiate church St. Ulrich and Afra Augsburg (1603/1604)
• complete figurative decoration on the Easter altar of the collegiate church St. Ulrich and Afra Augsburg (1603/1604)
• Pulpit in the collegiate church of St. Ulrich and Afra Augsburg (1606)
• Crescent Madonna in the Johanneskirche in Hofheim near Murnau (1610)
• Figures on the high altar of the parish church in Grünau im Almtal / Upper Austria (1616, formerly in the Kremsmünster collegiate church)
• Madonna at the high altar d. Aldersbach Abbey Church (1620)
• Main characters on the high altar of the parish church in Kaufering (1620)
• Marienfigur in Marienmünster Dießen (1620)
• Maria Queen of Heaven at the high altar of the parish church Unterhausen near Weilheim (1621)
• Figures of angels on the high altar entablature in the Abbey Church of Polling (1628)

His works have been lost in the Upper Austrian collegiate churches Spital am Pyhrn (1610–1612), Wilhering (1615) and Reichersberg (1617), as well as in the old Altötting Jesuit church (1610–1612) and in the parish church of Seefeld in Tyrol . Most of his work in the Aldersbach monastery church has also been lost.

literature

• Saur General Artist Lexicon. KG Saur Munich 1992–2010.
• The Weilheimer - great artists from the center of the Pfaffenwinkel. Heinrich-Jürgen Sauermost, Süddeutscher Verlag, 1988.

Web links

Commons : Hans Degler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files