Hans Morinck

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The Karlsruhe Pietà

Hans Morinck (* around 1555; † 1616 in Constance ) was a sculptor who worked in Constance. He created sculptural works for Catholic churches, but also for private individuals, mainly epitaphs and tombs.

life and work

Hans Morinck may have come from Carinthia . According to Stern, he may have been trained in the Netherlands and may have been in Italy for a while. Helmut Ricke suspects that Morinck completed an apprenticeship with the master of the Heiligenberg knight's hall and then traveled to Italy.

In 1578 he settled in Constance and in 1582 he became a citizen of that city. That year he married his first wife, Effrasina Harreisin, who died in 1591. He married Agnesa Langin in 1595. He also survived this wife; she died in 1611.

His works show the mannerism of the Floris School as well as influences from Michelangelo and his successors. Apparently Morinck used Dutch prints as templates for his reliefs, on which mostly many people are depicted. He must have operated a small workshop in Constance. Under Abbot Caspar II. Thoma he made a high altar for the New Minster .

Fritz Hirsch dated three passion reliefs made of Öhninger lime slate in the choir of St. Stephan to around 1578. In 1591 Morinck created an epitaph for his first wife, followed three years later by a sacrament house with an evening meal relief, both also in St. Stephan. Another epitaph from Morinck's hand can be found in the Nikolauskapelle in Konstanz Cathedral ; it is dedicated to Andreas vom Stain and dates from 1589. In the Annenkapelle in the minster there is an Anne altar by Morinck. In 1608, Hans Morinck decorated his own house, which today has the address Zollernstrasse 6, with a shepherd's relief above the door. The wine bar to the good shepherd , which is now in this house, is named after.

A Lamentation of Christ, dating from around 1614, is located at the entrance to the Welserkapelle of the Konstanz Minster. An epitaph for Horatius Tritt from 1595 came from the Church of St. Johann to the Rosgarten Museum . The Petershausen Abbey had Morinck reliefs that were later transferred to the Catholic Church in Karlsruhe and the Parish Church of St. Sigismund in Hepbach . The Karlsruhe Palace Museum took over two reliefs with Pietà and mercy seat , which were originally located in St. Johann in Konstanz. They are dated around 1612. According to Thieme-Becker, the authorship of some other works of art is not guaranteed.

Hans Ricke acknowledged the influence of Morinck's works with the following sentences: “Around 1600 M. was undisputedly the leading artist personality in the Lake Constance area. As a mediator of the sculpture of the Italian Renaissance and Mannerism, he plays a key role in the art history of the region. His work provided the decisive impetus for overcoming the working method of local artists, which was still determined by late Gothic ideas. The sculptors of the following generation, including such important ones as Jörg Zürn in Überlingen, learned from M. or at least dealt intensively with his work. "

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Morinck  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So Stern and www.leo-bw.de ; Ricke gives Gorinchem in the county of Holland without giving any sources .
  2. ^ Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Constance district. Freiburg 1887, p. 181 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Helmut Ricke:  Morinck, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 132 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Morinck, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1616
Place of death Constancy