Jakob Mülholzer

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Jakob Mülholzer (recorded in Windsheim from 1490/91 to 1514/15) was a German painter and barrel painter who was closely related to the picture carver Tilman Riemenschneider and colored several of his works.

life and work

The documentary evidence of Jacob Mülholzer come from the Gültbuch the Church of St. Kilian in Windheim where variously one between 1490/91 and 1514/15 Jacob moler is called, the various work points out in the church and in 1494 to negotiate with Tilman Riemenschneider by Kitzingen-Würzburg was dispatched. In 1496 a Jacob Mülholtzer signed and dated the predella of the north side altar and the back wall of the shrine of the south side altar in the Herrgottskirche in Creglingen . Older research still referred to him as a sculptor and ascribed the sculptural work on the Creglinger Altar to him; it was only more recent research that discovered Mülholzer as a painter who merely redesigned the partly older carvings of the Creglinger Altar and painted some new parts of the altar. In Rothenburg ob der Tauber , too , Mülholzer was probably busy with the revision of older altars or the colored version of newly erected altars. There, based on style-critical comparisons, research writes to him the current predella of the Franziskus altar (formerly part of a Johannes altar) of the Franciscan church and the painting of the wings of the altar of St. Ludwig von Toulouse (today in the town church of St. Jakob in Rothenburg). At the altar of St. Ludwig von Toulouse it is assumed that the carving comes from Tilman Riemenschneider. Numerous other references confirm the ongoing collaboration with Riemenschneider: Mülholzer fetched the Riemenschneider crucifixion group, which was ordered for Windsheim in 1499 and brought to Ochsenfurt in 1500, and in 1511/12 he colored the twelve-messenger altar made in 1509 for the church in Windsheim (today in the Museum der Kurpfalz in Heidelberg, however, it has been robbed of its original color since 1617). In the second decade of the 16th century, Mülholzer's trail in Windsheim is lost; in his place, a Hans Hertenstein from Rothenburg was commissioned with further painting work on the local altars.

Works

• Two side altars in the Herrgottskirche in Creglingen (color version of predella and shrine)
• Color version of the Windsheim twelve-messenger altar (today: Museum der Kurpfalz, Heidelberg)
• Wing of the altar of St. Ludwig von Toulouse, Jakobskirche, Rothenburg ob der Tauber
• Predella of the Franziskus Altar, Franciscan Church, Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thieme / Becker, 25, 1931, p. 215

literature

• Andrea Kleberger and Hartmut Krohm: Jakob Mülholzer from Windsheim - A painter from the circle around Tilman Riemenschneider , in: Tilman Riemenschneider - Early Works , Regensburg 1981, p. 303 ff.