Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger

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Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder J., self-portrait, 1537
Schalksnarr, woodcut (colored), Augsburg around 1540
Etching from the Augsburg gender book, 1545, photo: MWK
Copy of "Winter", (from the cycle of 4 Augsburg monthly pictures), around 1550
The resurrection, around 1540, wood engraving

Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger (* 1513 ; † 1568 in Vienna ) was a painter , draftsman , wood cutter and etcher .

Life

Nothing is known about his youth. His father Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder was a painter, draftsman, wood cutter, eraser, printer, publisher, author, song poet and ophthalmologist. In 1525 the young Vogtherr came to Strasbourg with his father and was probably trained artistically and technically by him. As an assistant he stood by his side for a few years and worked on his successful »Art Booklet« in 1537/1538. Around 1540 he settled as a painter and etcher in Augsburg , the birthplace of his wife Sybilla Steinmaier. This connection had seven sons and five daughters. Together with Hans Burgkmair the Younger, he worked on the Augsburger sex book; the title engraving of this work (the coat of arms of the city of Augsburg) comes from him. Like other Augsburg artists, he was also in the service of the Fuggers and worked on their behalf on monumental frescoes that were used to decorate a number of Augsburg buildings. It is discussed whether the copies of the four large "Augsburger monthly pictures" painted for the Fugger'schen Baugarten, the original versions of which (today in the German Historical Museum, Berlin) were probably made in the workshop of Jörg Breu the Elder , by him or (after Paul von Stetten ) come from his father. The only surviving copy ("The Winter"), which is now in the Maximiliansmuseum in Augsburg, has been confirmed by Vogtherr d. Ä. awarded. In 1554 Heinrich Vogtherr d. J. Augsburg and with part of his family followed their father, who was probably appointed as an ophthalmologist at the court of Ferdinand I, to Vienna. He is recorded as a painter in the court accounting department there. He survived his more important father, who died there in 1556, by twelve years.

Works

  • »Art Booklet«, in collaboration with his father Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder. Ä., Strasbourg 1538
  • "Der Schalksnarr", woodcut, around 1540, Gotha Castle Museum
  • "The Resurrection", woodcut, around 1540
  • »Augsburger sex book«, in collaboration with Hans Burgkmair the Elder. J., Augsburg 1545
  • "Augsburg Monthly Pictures", copy of "Winter", Augsburg, Maximiliansmuseum (evidence uncertain, see text under "Life")

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Muller: Heinrich Vogtherr l´Ancien - Un artist entre Renaissance et Réforme. Wiesbaden 1997, p. 316f.

literature

  • Karl Schorbach:  Vogtherr, Heinrich the Younger . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 194-196.
  • Friedrich Vogtherr: "History of the Vogtherr Family in the Light of Cultural Life", second, enlarged and illustrated edition, Ansbach 1908, ( digitized first edition, Ansbach 1892)
  • Frank Muller: »Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder (1490–456). Aspects of his life and work «. Dillingen 1990 (special print from the yearbook of the historical association Dillingen an der Donau, XCII. Year, pp. 173-274).
  • Gode ​​Krämer, in: "World in Transition - Augsburg Between Baroque and Renaissance". Exhibition catalog. Augsburg 1980.
  • Karl Baumann: The resurrection as a wood engraving, in: Augsburger Allgemeine, March 11, 2011
  • Exhibition catalog "Augsburger Geschlechtbuch - Wappenpracht und Figurenkunst", Stuttgart 2012, Staatsgalerie.
  • "Festivals and Customs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance - The Augsburger monthly pictures", Gütersloh / Munich 2007, p. 31 (Gode Krämer) and p. 208 (Hans H. Wilmes)

Web links

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