Jacob Ramsler

Jacob Ramsler (* 1587 in Tübingen ; † 1635 there ) was a Württemberg painter who lived and worked in Tübingen. He was a son of the painter Anton Ramsler .

Prof. Heinrich Bocer, (oil portrait, 1613, Tübingen Professorengalerie)

Life

Jacob Ramsler was a son of the Tübingen painter Anton Ramsler and his wife Sibilla geb. Brentel. He had learned the painting trade from his father and was registered as a citizen of the city of Tübingen and a painter in 1603. In 1611 he married Maria Schickhardt, b. Möst, the widow of the painter Apelles Schickhardt, who died young from the plague in 1610 . In the same year he applied for “academic citizenship” in Tübingen. The application was rejected, but Ramsler stayed in Tübingen.

Title page of the palm branch (1628)

In 1613 he succeeded in getting a commission for a portrait of the law professor Heinrich Bocer . But it was an isolated matter. Ramsler was forced to carry out artistically insignificant painting work, of which there is only very sparse information. One knows z. For example, that in 1619/20 he painted a stag's head for the Tübingen winery and in 1628 he etched an allegory on Duke Johann Friedrich . Although he did not have academic citizenship, Ramsler apparently enjoyed a reputation in Tübingen. This can be done e.g. This can be seen, for example, from the fact that in 1625 - together with Georg Baur - he was commissioned with an expert opinion to determine whether the potter and sculptor Abraham Burckhardt II had the appropriate professional qualifications for the branch in Tübingen. This reputation also enabled him to deal in some way with the history of the university and the Collegium Illustre . The fruit of this were two collections of coats of arms: Flowers of the Princely Colegii (1627) and Palm Twigs (1628), which he put together, etched and laid. These artistically rather insignificant but informative ribbons contain lists of professors and noble students with their coats of arms from the founding of the schools and were certainly popular handbooks back then.

Prof. Andreas Bayer, (oil portrait, 1634, Tübingen Professorengalerie)

Only after Ramsler had finally obtained “academic citizenship” in 1634, his occupation could change: he once again painted a professor's portrait: the law professor Andreas Bayer . But as early as the next year, at the age of 48, he died of the plague , which was abducted to Tübingen as a result of the lost battle of Nördlingen during the Thirty Years' War and wiped out the lives of most of the townspeople.

There are numerous Tübingen family records with the coat of arms paintings in the character of Georg Brentel and Anton Ramsler, from the time after Anton Ramsler's death (1607), which can apparently be ascribed to Jacob Ramsler.

The portraits ascribed to Ramsler are characterized by an old-fashioned hardness and joy in factual accuracy.

Sons

Jacob Ramsler's son, Friedrich Ramsler II (* 1616), also became a painter. As early as 1624/25 he did an apprenticeship for several years with the Stuttgart court painter Georg Donauer (until 1629/30).

Jacob Ramsler's first son of the same name Jacob Ramsler II (* probably 1612; † 1692 (or 1693)) decided to work as a silversmith. After his apprenticeship from 1636 to 1640, he became a master silversmith in Tübingen by 1679 at the latest.

Received works

• 1613 Prof. Heinrich Bocer , (oil on wood, Tübingen Professorengalerie )
• 1634 Prof. Andreas Bayer , (oil on wood, Tübingen professors' gallery)

Publications

• Flowers of the Princely Collegii zu Tübingen, that is a short list, in it of all high and noble people who are planted, grown up, and distinguished by innate coats of arms ... Tübingen 1627
• Palmen Zweig, that is a Svmmarian relation, which figures of the high-born princes of Wirtemberg found, propagated and up to date highly praised Academi zu Tübingen, their rulers and members: also a catalog of all princes, Graven, lords, Adelstantds grew up to the sampts of the highly educated men from these academies, and spread to many countries, to see highly thought princes at everlasting rhum, the praiseworthy academi but in special honor in subsequent order composed and published by Jacob Ramsler, Burgern and Mahlern in Tübingen , Tübingen 1628

See also

• Ramsler family of painters

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings ... , p. 211
2. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings ... , p. 216
3. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 364
4. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 379
5. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 375
6. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 387
7. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Baroque in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1958, p. 100

literature

• Werner Fleischhauer : Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1971
• Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings of the Tübingen university portrait collection - a contribution to the history of painting of the late Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg . In: Werner Fleischhauer u. a .: New contributions to the history of the south-west of Germany. Festschrift for Max Miller , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1962, pp. 197–216
• Max Bach : Jacob Ramsler's coat of arms booklet . In: “Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter” 1893, p. 39f

Web links

Commons : Jacob Ramsler  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Studion: Tübingen Professorengalerie (currently not available)