Jakob Krause

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Jakob Krause (* 1531/1532 in Zwickau ; † July 9, 1586 in Dresden ), other spellings Krauße , Krauss and Kreuss , was a German bookbinder of the Renaissance .

Life

Krause was born in Zwickau in 1531 or 1532, where he attended the Latin school directed by Petrus Plateanus and began an apprenticeship as a bookbinder with Christoph Behem. In his traveling years 1549/50 he worked among others with Lazarus Bernhart in Annaberg , and stays in Leipzig and Wittenberg are also accepted. A stay of several years in France, where he got to know the Mauresque style, the arabesque and the floral style that are characteristic of his later bindings, was decisive for his development . When he returned, he brought many work tools with him from France.

From 1561 he worked in Augsburg as a master craftsman (master craftsman examination in the spring of 1561 with Jakob Holl) and married. In 1561 he visited his hometown Zwickau, then he stayed in Wittenberg to buy stamps. Krause obtained Augsburg citizenship , which he retained until shortly before his death. In Augsburg he made dedication volumes with hand gilding, e.g. B. 1561 a gift ribbon to the Zwickau council, two volumes of recommendation to the Duke of Bavaria in 1563 and a farewell offering to the Augsburg council in 1564. He succeeded in 1566, on August 25th, as court bookbinder in the service of the Elector August in Dresden kick where he received a workshop in the office. He was allowed to accept private assignments. One of his journeymen was Gregor Schenk the Younger, who also came from Zwickau and later became the court bookbinder of the Würzburg prince-bishop Julius Echter , around 1566–1568 . Krause's assistant from 1574 to 1578, who was to follow him in the office of court bookbinder, was Kaspar Meuser.

Krause made around 1000 bindings in Dresden, a large part of which is now kept in the SLUB Dresden . Along with his successor Meuser, Krause is considered the most important German bookbinder of the Renaissance . He was the namesake of the Jakob Krauße Association of German Bookbinders, founded in 1912 .

literature

  • Karl Berling : The Saxon court bookbinder Jakob Krause . Hoffmann, Dresden 1897.
  • Ilse Schunke : Krause studies . Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1932. (Central Journal for Libraries, Supplement 65)
  • Ilse Schunke: Life and Work of Jakob Krause. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1943.
  • Angelika Pabel: The round renaissance binding for Prince Bishop Julius Echter. In: binding research. 20 (2007), pp. 27-36.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thieme-Becker : Allgemeine Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler , Volume 21 (1927), pp. 100-107 names 1526/1527 as the years of birth.
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krauße, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookbinder
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1526 or 1531
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1586
Place of death Dresden