Jerg Kugler
Jerg Kugler (* around 1484 in Nördlingen ; † 1543 or later; also Jörg Kugler ) was a German painter who was assigned to work on several historical altars in southwest Germany.
Life
Kugler was presumably the son of Heinrich Echser, known as Heinrich Kugler, who was occupied in Nördlingen in 1466. Jerg spent his apprenticeship in the Ulm area , then went to Bietigheim and came to Heilbronn in 1510 , where he acquired citizenship in 1517 and married Ottilie von Nellingen, daughter of the painter and councilor Hans von Nellingen. From 1523 he worked as a barrel painter in an artist workshop in Heilbronn that made altars for churches in the area. Kugler is recorded in Heilbronn until 1543. His son Gregorius Kugler became town clerk and lawyer there , and other descendants also lived there.
plant
The oldest work ascribed to Kugler is the painting of the St. Vitus Altar in Fleiner St. Vitus Church , which is dated to 1514 or 1517. This altar does not yet come from the Heilbronn workshop, in which Kugler worked from 1523, but rather from a workshop in Bietigheim, from where Kugler came to Heilbronn. The Marien altar in the choir of the Schwaigern town church, on the other hand, was made by the Heilbronn workshop, bears the monogram IK and is dated 1523. On the basis of style comparisons, Kugler is also assigned the painting of the Ulrich Altar in the St. Ulrichs Church in Stockheim , which was probably created a little later after the Schwaigern Altar, as well as the version of the Billigheim Marien Altar . Two panels in the Michaelskapelle on the Michaelsberg near Cleebronn also clearly came from Kugler's hand , but they no longer exist and can only be verified by archive entries.
literature
- Moriz von Rauch : Kugler, Georg (Jörg) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928.
- Hartmut Gräf: Unterländer Altars 1350–1540. An inventory. Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1983 ( Heilbronner Museumsheft. No. 9). Pp. 15-17.
- Sven Lüken: The Annunciation to Maria in the 15th and early 16th centuries: historical and art historical investigations . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-47901-8 , pp. 202 ( books.google.de - excerpt).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kugler, Jerg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kugler, Jörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1484 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nordlingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1543 |