Jakob Müller (sculptor)
Jakob Müller (* 1565 in Wimpfen ; † 1611 ) was a sculptor, stonemason and carver in Heilbronn and a student of Adam Wagner .
Life
He came from a Hohenlohe bricklayer family. The father Georg Müller came from Bächlingen, married Margarete Heroldtin in Wimpfen in 1564 and then moved to Heilbronn, where he received citizenship in 1569. Son Jakob was probably born in Wimpfen in 1565, was an apprentice to Adam Wagner from 1581 to 1584 and took the citizenship oath in Heilbronn in 1585.
After completing his apprenticeship at Wagner, Müller initially worked for the bricklayer Hans Stefan . On his behalf he created a coat of arms for the abbot of Schöntal in 1586 and put his stonemason mark and his name on it. This workpiece is Müller's first documented work, especially since Stefan removed the stonemason's mark and Müller's name and there was a judicial follow-up to it, the documents of which have been preserved. After working with Stefan, Müller went into business for himself, but also repeatedly worked for his former teacher Wagner. He received orders for grave sculptures, portals and fountains from the city of Heilbronn, but also from the lords of the surrounding knightly areas. In Heilbronn, Müller was one of three sculptors, along with Adam Wagner and Melchior Zapf, who opposed the admission of a fourth sculptor to the council.
His first wife Magdalene and the four children resulting from this union died young. In 1593 he entered into a second marriage with Maria Strobel, the daughter of a Göppingen subordinate. There were five children from this marriage, four of whom reached adulthood. He died in autumn 1611 at the latest, as his wife was then referred to as a widow. She married Heinrich Winter and died in 1616.
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In Heilbronn, Müller completely or partially executed five wells. So he created the St. Georgsbrunnen , on whose fountain column a sandstone figure of St. George on his horse fighting the dragon, which Jakob Müller originally created for the Fleinertorbrunnen in 1591 . Steinmetz Müller received 45 guilders and one Malter Frucht for this work. However, after the new George figure had been placed on the fountain column of the Hafenmarktbrunnen, an older figure with the same motif remained on the Fleinertorbrunnen until Müller created a new figure for it in 1601. He also made the tomb for parish administrator Christoph Rollwag in Heilbronn, which is the only tomb designed by Müller that bears his name. Müller built another Georgsbrunnen in Bönnigheim .
In 1590 he built the fountain in Presteneck Castle for Hans Walther von Gemmingen . In 1591 he created the epitaph for the second wife of the Mundelsheim bailiff Johann Wolff, later the tomb for Wolff's mother followed and, after Wolff's death in 1600, his own tomb. In 1593 he created the tomb for Christoph Wilhelm von Massenbach in the Georgskirche in Massenbach . For Wolf Dietrich von Gemmingen he made the portal of Gemmingen Castle in 1592 and an epitaph for the lord of the castle, who died in 1595, on behalf of his widow. The tomb for the Palatinate-Neuburg Councilor Johann von Gemmingen from 1599 should also be a work of Müller.
For the patrician family Lemlin Müller created the tomb of Philipp Christoph von Lemlin in the Georgskirche in Horkheim . For the storm spring of Oppenweiler he built the grave of Friedrich XII. Sturmfeder († 1597) in the Protestant church of Oppenweiler . The tomb of Burkhard Sturmfeder and his wife Anna von Helmstatt in the same church are probably from Müller.
Müller created tombs for the Lords von Liebenstein in the Cyriakus Church in Bönnigheim . He also designed the castle chapel in Liebenstein in 1599/1600 , which is considered to be his main work.
In 1602 he applied for artistic stonemason work at Heidelberg Castle, but his offer was rejected. He then worked in Heilbronn, delivering an epitaph for the Lords of Venningen to Zuzenhausen in 1604 , erecting a tomb for the Heilbronn patrician family Feurer in 1606 and later involved in the renovation of the Heilbronn town hall clock.
From 1610 he was involved in the renovation of the St. Salvator Church in Neckarbischofsheim , where he also created the tomb for Johann Philipp von Helmstatt in the Church of the Dead , which is one of his few works with his monogram IHM, even if it is hidden and upside down. A children's epitaph in the Church of the Dead also has a signature from Müller, other epitaphs there can be assigned to Müller for stylistic reasons.
Moriz von Rauch ascribes several works of the same type to Müller, including the tombs of the Lords of Handschuhsheim in the old church in Handschuhsheim , the gates at the Gemming Castle in Rappenau and the gates at the Gölerischen Amalienhof in Sulzbach (1607).
The Sicking tombs in Sickingen that Moriz von Rauch ascribed to him did not come from Müller, nor did the Sternenfels tomb in Kürnbach.
The typical work signature of Müller is not the monogram IHM, as it appears on the Helmstatt epitaph in the Church of the Dead in Neckarbischofsheim, but rather the use of bunches of fruit in plastic jewelry. Such motifs can be found on the portal of the town church in Neckarbischofsheim and on some of the epitaphs of the church of the dead.
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literature
- Müller, Jakob . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931.
- Peter Beisel: Jakob Müller. A sculptor and master builder who shaped Neckarbischofsheim . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 18, 2003, pp. 123–130.
- Elisabeth Zipperlein: In the footsteps of the sculptor Jacob Müller , in: Ludwigsburger Geschichtsblätter XVI , 1964, pp. 57–67.
- Adolf von Oechelhaeuser: The art monuments of the Heidelberg district (The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden, Vol. VIII, 2) , Tübingen 1913, pp. 44, 46, 472.
- The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg, inventory, Neckarkreis , Stuttgart 1889, pp. 564, 576
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Vol. III .: Southern Germany . 2nd edition (with supplements and corrections). Berlin 1920
- Katharina Köpchen: The figurative grave sculpture in Württembergisch-Franken , Halle 1909, p. 100f
Individual evidence
- ↑ The name of the wife is not clearly passed down, she could also have been called Herletin (Beisel 2003, p. 123).
- ↑ a b Moriz von Rauch: Jakob Müller . In: Special supplement of the State Gazette for Württemberg . No. 11 , November 18, 1925, p. 241 (corrections to Jakob Müller ( Württemb. Vierteljahrsh. F. Landesgeschichte, NF 14 (1905) 85/96 )).
- ↑ Beisel 2003, p. 123.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1565 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wimpfen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1611 |