Honeymooners
The wedding or youth is one of the ten remaining morris dancers that were carved by Erasmus Grasser in 1480 . The original figures were exhibited in the dance hall of the Old Town Hall in Munich and can now be viewed in the Munich City Museum .
The honeymooner was removed with four other statues as early as 1843 and sold to the Pallavicin-Barrocco family in Italy in the Villa Rocca near Cremona. In 1887 they were bought back by the city of Munich for 8,000 francs (at that time around 6634 marks), but as early as 1861 copies were made of plaster of paris from Keim and placed in the dance hall. The wedding-bringer can also be recognized in engravings by Israel Meckenem and on the reliefs of the Innsbruck Golden Roof . In 1928 the Hochzeiterer was sucked down to the wood and recast.
Plaster copy in original size 61.5 cm of the bride and groom, probably made by Keim around 1861. The version of this copy with its green and gold striped trousers does not correspond to the original, which was rewritten in 1928.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philipp Maria Halm: Erasmus Grasser . Dr. Benno Filser Verlag, Augsburg 1928, page 15
literature
- Philipp Maria Halm: Erasmus Grasser . Dr. Benno Filser Verlag, Augsburg 1928.
- Johanna Müller Meiningen: The morris dancers and other works by Erasmus Gasser for the old town hall in Munich . 5th edition, Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1998.