Israhel van Meckenem the Younger

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Self-portrait with his wife
Couple making music at the fountain
The bad woman

Israhel van Meckenem (* around 1440 / 1445 ; † 10. November 1503 in Bocholt ) was an important engraver of the 15th century in Germany . The student of Master ES was already regarded by his contemporaries as one of the most important masters of this art direction.

life and work

His father was Israhel van Meckenem the elder . His workshop was in Bocholt, Westphalia . Due to their origins in Meckenheim in the Rhineland, the artist's family carried the Low German name van Meckenem, from Meckenheim.

In 1465 he worked in Kleve and in 1482 Israhel van Meckenem was verifiably active for the council of the city of Bocholt.

With 550 copper engravings, van Meckenem left the most comprehensive work of all copper engravers of the 15th century. In addition to his own work, Israhel van Meckenem also made many engravings based on the works of Albrecht Dürer , Hans Holbein the Elder , Martin Schongauer and others. a., whereby he also appeared as a publisher.

The series of twelve sheets of depictions from everyday life is one of the artist's best-known works . An important art-historical document for the late 15th century is the double portrait of the artist with his wife Ida. Very beautiful, allegorical- moral engravings of lovers were made between 1495 and 1503.

His grave is in the parish church of St. Georg in Bocholt , where he was buried in 1503. A drawing of his tombstone is said to have been preserved in the British Museum .

Catalog of works

A first catalog of works with biographical information about his family was published in 1839 by Georg Kaspar Nagler . The catalog of works that is relevant today was published in 1986 by Tilman Falk and Fritz Koreny .

Lute player and harpist

literature

  • Wilhelm Schmidt:  Israel van Meckenem . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 153 f.
  • Max Geisberg : The Master of the Berlin Passion and Israhel van Meckenem. Studies on the history of the Westphalian engravers in the 15th century . Strasbourg 1903 (Reprint Kraus, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-00304-2 )
  • Max Lehrs : History and critical catalog of German, Dutch and French copper engraving in the XV. Century. Israhel van Meckenem, Vienna 1934, vol. 9. ( digitized version )
  • Anni Warburg: Israhel van Meckenem. His life, his work and its significance for the art of the late 15th century . Schroeder, Bonn 1930.
  • Elisabeth Bröker (ed.): Israhel van Meckenem, goldsmith and copper engraver. On the 450th anniversary of his death . Westphalian printing, Dortmund 1953
  • Tilman Falk, Fritz Koreny: Israhel van Meckenem. (= Hollstein's German engravings, etchings and woodcuts , 24) Amsterdam 1986
  • Jutta Schnack:  Meckenem, Israel van. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 587 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Otmar Plaßmann: Israhel van Meckenem. Engraver of the late Middle Ages from Westphalia . Catalog for the exhibition of the museum in Grafschaft Abbey . Bonifatius, Paderborn 2000 ISBN 3-00-006146-0 (Review by Fritz Koreny in Print Quarterly , 28, 2001, p. 469ff.)
  • Achim Riether: Israhel van Meckenem (around 1440 / 45–1503). Copper Engravings - The Munich Collection . Catalog for the exhibition September 14 to November 26, 2006. Munich 2006 ISBN 978-3-927803-44-2
  • Hans M. Schmidt: Miscellanea to Israhel van Meckenem. In: Das Münster 2/2018, pp. 207–212
  • Georg Ketteler: Israhel van Meckenem (around 1440-1503), goldsmith and copper engraver in Bocholt, in Westmünsterländische Biografien, 3 , series: Geschichte im Westmünsterland, 9th ed. And publishing company for historical regional studies of the western Münsterland, Vreden and Bredevoort 2018, Pp. 33-48.
  • Hans M. Schmidt : Israhel van Meckenem's "Feast of Herod" or engagement ceremony at the court of the Duke of Kleve, an early historical picture in: The Minster . Journal for Christian Art and Art History 1/2020, pp. 56–59, ISSN  0027-299X .

Web links

Commons : Israhel van Meckenem (the Younger)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. George Church in Bocholt. (pdf) Short church guide through the St. Georg Church in Bocholt. Katholisches Pfarramt St. Georg, p. 9 , accessed on March 30, 2015 .
  2. ^ Anton Schmeddinghoff in: Münsterland Bocholt 1222-1922 , second part, May-June 1922, p. 180.
  3. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon: or news of the life and works of painters ... , Volume eight: Lodge - quantities. Verlag von EA Fleischmann, Munich 1839, pp. 535-562 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Meckenem, Israhel van der Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH around 1440
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1503
Place of death Bocholt