Hans Poetzlinger

Hans Pötzlinger (* around 1535 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz ; † 1603 in Klosterneuburg ), also known as Hans Petzlinger , was a Regensburg master sculptor during the Renaissance . His main clients mostly came from the Protestant nobility from the Bavarian-Austrian Danube region.

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Hans Pötzlinger was born around 1535 in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate as the son of the Palatine judge Hans the Elder Pötzlinger, he came from the knightly family of Pötzlinger . At the beginning of the 1550s he began his apprenticeship with Conrad Forster in Heidelberg . There he probably met the brothers Arnold and Bernhard Abel , and in 1558 Alexander Colin . After receiving the title of master craftsman, he married the Regensburg furrier daughter Barbara Dirbeiss in 1559 and bought Regensburg citizenship a year later . In 1564 Pötzlinger married again, Apollonia Pesendorfer from Regensburg.

In 1565 he set up a workshop at Neupfarrplatz zu Regensburg, where he remained as a master for 17 years. In 1571 Friedrich Thön began his apprenticeship with Pötzlinger, who accompanied him in the future on his works and trips.

For many years Hans Pötzlinger was in the service of Count Joachim von Ortenburg , during which time he also lived in Ortenburg . After completing the orders there in 1579, Pötzlinger should have moved back to Regensburg. He left Regensburg around 1582 and moved to Lower Austria.

During his work he died in 1603 around Candlemas in Klosterneuburg . From the news of his death it is also known that he was married a third time to a certain Debora.

Works by Pötzlinger

Hans Pötzlinger's works are shaped by Dutch and Italian influences. But there are only a few of his works left at all. From the time before 1566, not a single one is known to this day. In addition, many of the later buildings are only fragmentarily preserved or completely destroyed.

The two main works of Hans Pötzlinger are almost completely preserved in the Protestant market church in Ortenburg: the cenotaphs for Count Joachim and his son Anton von Ortenburg . For Anton's cenotaph alone, seven different-colored types of marble were brought to Ortenburg from Eichstätt , Salzburg and Trento . The Anton cenotaph was built by Pötzlinger from January 12, 1574 to May 9, 1575, and from January 8, 1576 to July 19, 1577, the tumba of Count Joachim. At that time he was also working on other commissions from Joachim. For example, in the furnishings of the Alt-Ortenburg Castle , to this day the two over-portals with coats of arms in the knight's hall of the castle have been preserved.

The only fragmentary tumba for Rüdiger von Starhemberg in Eferding and Hellmonsödt is likely to have resembled Joachimstumba . Around 1582, in the service of the Court Chamber President Richard Streun von Schwarzenau, he erected the furnishings for Freydegg Castle, which is unfortunately lost today, and other tombs. In 1587 Pötzlinger built Hans Wilhelm von Losenstein's tumba in Schallaburg Castle . In 1603 Hans Pötzlinger died while he was working on the altar for Klosterneuburg Abbey .

In Regensburg, Ortenburg and Austria, Hans Pötzlinger also created tombs for bourgeois clients. Many, especially in Regensburg, are lost today. Only one grave monument has been preserved in Regensburg, the epitaph for Casparus Kammerhueber in the old chapel on Kornmarkt . The two epitaphs of Joachim Weindl and Hans Geidinger, Hofwirt zu Dorfbach, have been preserved in the St. Laurentius Church in Steinkirchen near Ortenburg . In the Marktkirche in Ortenburg there is also the epitaph of Erasmus Ernreytter zu Hoffreit and his wife Helena. There are other gravestones in Pyrbaum , Hainsbach , Wiesent , Mötzing , Haindling , Hemau , Sünching , Oberpfraundorf, Schärding , Stadlkirchen and Ferschnitz .

• Selection of his works
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  One of his two main works, the cenotaph for Count Anton von Ortenburg.

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  The corresponding death shield for Anton's cenotaph was also created by Pötzlinger.

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  His second major work, the cenotaph for Count Joachim von Ortenburg.

literature

• Gertraud Dinzinger: Hans Pötzlinger (~ 1535–1603) a Regensburg sculptor , in: 1250 years of art and culture in the diocese of Regensburg (= art collections of the diocese of Regensburg, Diözesanmuseum Regensburg catalog and writings volume 7), Munich 1989, pp. 335–351.
• Gertraud Dinzinger: Hans Pötzlinger and South German Sculpture in the 2nd Half of the 16th Century , Dissertation at the University of Regensburg, 1985.
• Gertraud Dinzinger: Hans Pötzlinger - the great sculptor from the time of the Renaissance , in: Evangelischer Gemeindebote Ortenburg, No. 14, July - August 1987.
• Gertraud Dinzinger: Hans Pötzlinger - the great sculptor from the time of the Renaissance , in: Ortenburg - Reichsgrafschaft and 450 years Reformation (1563–2013), Ortenburg 2013, pp. 397–400.
• Norbert Loidol: On the oeuvre of the Renaissance sculptors Friedrich Thön and Hans Pötzlinger from Regensburg in Upper and Lower Austria. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association 154-155. Linz 2010, pp. 49–190 ( digitized on ZOBODAT ).
• Felix Mader: The Art Monuments of Bavaria - District Office Vilshofen , Munich 1982 ( digitized version )
• Carl Mehrmann: History of the Evangelical Lutheran community of Ortenburg in Lower Bavaria. Memorandum for the anniversary celebration of the 300th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation there on October 17 and 18, 1863 . Landshut 1863. ( digitized )

Web links

Commons : Hans Pötzlinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hans Pötzlinger in the CERL Thesaurus