Heinrich Yselin

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Heinrich Yselin , also Heinrich Iselin (* around 1450 ; † 1513 in Constance ) was a late Gothic wood carver .

Life

Nothing certain can be said about either the year of birth or the place of birth of Yselin. It can be assumed that it came from Ravensburg . Although he had been based in Constance since the beginning of the 1470s at the latest , he was only mentioned in a document between 1478 and 1513 as the son-in-law of master carpenter Simon Haider, with whom he ran a workshop.

Haider had received the order to complete the choir stalls of the Konstanzer Minster , which was started by the Dutchman Nikolaus Gerhaert van Leyden (he lived between 1430 and 1470), but who had stopped his work in 1467 due to a dispute over wages. Since Haider himself was not a sculptor, it can be assumed that Yselin was employed specifically for this activity.

According to a document from 1490 that has been preserved, Haider paid Yselin 100 guilders on behalf of Weingarten Abbey . Yselin made busts for the Weingartener choir stalls, the production of which is documented for the year 1477. He worked out the facial features of the figures with ornamental lines and folds, and also made them more lively and cheerful.

With the completion by Yselin, the Dutch design language of Nicolaus Gerhaert, a master of the late Gothic, came to Upper Swabia in a "rustic" version.

In 1493 he worked with Hans Haider, the son of Simon Haider, on the choir stalls of St. Gallus in Bregenz , around 1506–1509 with the same on a retable .

In 1481 Yselin acquired Constance citizenship . In 1511 he became a member of the city's Grand Council. Yselin died in Constance in 1513 .

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SURNAME Yselin, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iselin, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor of the late Gothic
DATE OF BIRTH around 1450
DATE OF DEATH 1513
Place of death Constancy