Hans Multscher

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Hans Multscher (* around 1400 in Reichenhofen ; † 1467 in Ulm ) was a German sculptor and painter.

The Resurrection of Christ , Gemäldegalerie Berlin
The Man of Sorrows (copy) on the central pillar of the west portal of the Ulm Minster

Life

After years of apprenticeship in his homeland in Allgäu, he got to know the artistic innovations in northern France and the Netherlands during his years of traveling (with Claus Sluter ?). In 1427 he was accepted as a free citizen in Ulm . In the same year he married Adelheid Kitzin, a citizen's daughter. Multscher worked as a sculptor, painter and modeller and maintained an extensive and prestigious workshop until his death in 1467. His brother Heinrich Multscher also worked in this workshop - with his own hand .

meaning

Among the multitude of talented, mostly nameless artists of the 15th century, Multscher stands out as a strong personality who has been able to develop steadily over decades. He pioneered the realism that came to Germany from the Burgundian Netherlands and was intended to replace the " soft style " of his contemporaries (e.g. Meister Francke , Stefan Lochner , Meister Hartmann ). In the Wurzacher Altar from 1437 (Berlin) his realism increases to emphasized ugliness; in the carved figures of the Sterzing Altar (from 1456), however, it finds a large, cheerful and serious form. The revolutionary had become a classic.

With his late work, Multscher paved the way for Jörg Syrlin (the elder) , Michel Erhart , Gregor Erhart , Veit Stoss , Adam Kraft , Tilman Riemenschneider and others. a. and is therefore considered to be the early representative and co-founder of the Ulm School .

"The reach of his emotional life was of almost unparalleled tension ... There is a Faustian being in him" (W. Pinder, 1937).

Works

Adoration of the Magi, altarpiece by Hans Multscher, Multscher-Museum Sterzing, South Tyrol

Around 1429 he made the “ Man of Sorrows ” on the west portal of the Ulm Minster . The figures in the so-called Karg niche on the right east wall (inside) of the Ulm Minster, originally a wall altar with a depiction of the Annunciation , built in 1433 by order of the Karg family, were probably lost in the iconoclasm (1531) and can hardly be reconstructed . Other altars from Multscher are the Landsberger Altar (1437), the Heiligenkreuzthaler Altar (1450, Altheim near Riedlingen ) and the Altar in Sterzing ( South Tyrol ). In addition to the Sterzing Mother of God, the Reichenhofer (1425), Landsberger and Bihlafinger (from 1455) Madonna figures have been preserved, as well as two angels from the Sterzing winged altar (in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich), the tombstone visor for Duke Ludwig the Bearded of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (also Munich, BNM) as well as the sculptures for the magnificent window of the Ulm City Hall , the so-called Kaisergruppe at the east window. In Liebieghaus in Frankfurt an alabaster sculpture of the mercy seat of Hans Multscher is stored (1430).

Honors

  • Hans-Multscher-Gymnasium Leutkirch im Allgäu
  • Hans Multscher School Ulm

literature

  • Wilhelm Pinder : The Art of the First Civil Age. 1937, 3rd edition 1952, Seemann Köln, p. 308 ff.
  • Ulrich Söding: Hans Multscher - The Sterzinger Altar. Athesia, Bozen 1991, ISBN 88-7014-611-1
  • Manfred Tripps:  Multscher, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 576 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hans Multscher. Late Gothic sculptor in Ulm. An exhibition of the Ulmer Museum and the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart in the Ulmer Museum, Ulm 1997
  • Konrad Goehl : Counting wrinkles is easier. For the transcription of the Karg inscription in the Multscher catalog. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 17, 1998, p. 537.

More pictures

  • The so-called Karg niche in the Ulm Minster, remains of a wall altar by Hans Multscher from 1433

  • Imperial group at the east window of the Ulm town hall, Hans Multscher, 1527–1533

  • Winged altar of the Multscher school in the Scharenstetten parish church (originally in Ulm Minster)

  • Madonna figure in the footsteps of Hans Multscher, around 1450

  • Maria with Child (Bihlafinger Madonna), around 1455–60, alder wood, remains of the original and a newer version; Ulm Museum

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personal data
SURNAME Multscher, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1400
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenhofen , today in Leutkirch in the Allgäu
DATE OF DEATH 1467
Place of death Ulm