Joachim Lederlein
Joachim Lederlein (* around 1550 in Nuremberg ; † in 1604 at the earliest in Tübingen ) was a German wood cutter who made his home in Tübingen. His numerous woodcuts appeared mainly in the books of the Gruppenbach printing company .
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Life
Joachim Lederlein was a son of Sebastian Lederlein and the stepson of the tailor Hermann Schuster. He settled in Tübingen in the first half of the 1570s. Apparently he soon realized that Tübingen offered good conditions for his existence; because already on July 24th 1574 he gave up his Nuremberg citizenship. In 1578 he married the daughter of the Tübingen book printer Ulrich Morhard and in the same year he received citizenship by being enrolled as a wood cutter by the city, calling himself a typographer from Nuremberg. As a result of the marriage, Lederlein became the brother-in-law of Georg Gruppenbach , who took over the printing company from Ulrich Morhard. In this way, Lederlein secured orders for woodcuts from this printing company for decades. He inherited the mortgage on a house in Nuremberg, which he sold on July 27, 1598 to the watchmaker Hans Schuster. When he enrolled in 1605 and 1608, he called himself a form cutter.
Lederlein "was the first reasonably qualified wood cutter in Württemberg ". For his woodcuts he always used paintings or at least preliminary drawings by painters such as Jacob Züberlein , Hans Ulrich Alt , Anton Ramsler , Philipp Renlin as the basis, but did not adhere strictly to them. He usually changed a few small things, sometimes reversing the image as a mirror image.
One of Lederlein’s son, Joachim Dietrich Lederlein (* 1579), followed in his father’s footsteps and became a tailor . In 1608 he was enrolled as a form cutter in Tübingen.
Well-known work
- 1578 Primož Trubar , woodcut portrait that was used as a template for the reverse of the Slovenian € 1 coin .
- 1587 Pedigree of Duke Ludwig (based on a preliminary drawing by Jacob Züberlin; Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart)
- 1590 The Zwinglische Bett (based on a preliminary drawing by Jacob Züberlin; Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart)
- 1593 Samuel Hayland (assistance)
- 1596 Series of woodcuts for the book Imagines professorum Tubingensium , Tübingen 1596 [actually 1598] by Erhard Cellius (after paintings by Hans Ulrich Alt, Anton Ramsler, Philipp Renlin and another unidentified painter)
monogram
His monogram was an F over I ♥ L over the four-digit year.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b c d Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings ... , p. 206
- ↑ a b Manfred H. Grieb: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Fine artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. Walter de Gruyter, January 1, 2007, page 900.
- ↑ After Heinrich Füllmaurer, he was the second foreigner to be matriculated in Tübingen. Since the wood cutters were counted among the book printers, this was not as difficult as with the painters.
- ↑ Imagines professorum Tubingensium on LEO-BW.
- ↑ Joseph Heller: Monogram Lexicon: Contains the known, dubious and unknown characters, as well as the abbreviations of the names of the draftsmen, painters, form cutters, engravers, lithographs, etc. With short messages about the same. JG Sickmüller, 1831. Page 209.
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
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lederlein, Joachim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lederlin, Jakob; Lederlin, Joachim; Lederlein, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wood cutter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1550 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1604 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |