Johann Darsow
Johann Darsow (* probably in Lübeck ; † 1434 ibid) was a councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. The name of his family is inextricably linked with the Darsow Madonna in Lübeck's Marienkirche, which he and other family members donated around 1420 .
Life
Darsow came from an advisable Lübeck merchant family who originally immigrated from the nearby Mecklenburg town of Dassow . His brothers Gerhard and Hermann were also councilors in Lübeck. Darsow was co-owner of the village of Stubben and the Kronsforde, Krummesse and Grönau estates near Lübeck . His first marriage was to Elisabeth, a daughter of Mayor Jakob Pleskow , and his second marriage to Walburg, daughter of Mayor Johann Nyebur .
In 1418 Darsow first donated a vicarie for the church of the Johanniskloster, which no longer exists today . In 1419 he and his nephews Bernhard, Gerhard and Hermann donated the Darsow altar in St. Mary's Church, from which a beautiful Madonna in the soft style made of Baumberger sandstone has been preserved from the central part of the triptych . It broke into thousands of individual pieces as a result of the air raid on Palm Sunday 1942 during the fire in St. Mary's Church, but restorers put it back together again. The original artist is not known and is therefore listed in art history under the emergency name Master of the Darsow Madonna .
He was a member of the circle society . He is listed several times as a documentary witness in Lübeck citizens' wills .
literature
- Anna Elisabeth Albrecht: Stone sculpture in Lübeck around 1400. Berlin 1997, pp. 27–30; P. 108 ff. ISBN 3496011726
- Rafael Ehrhardt: Family and Memoria in the City. A case study on Lübeck in the late Middle Ages. Dissertation, Göttingen 2001. with a prosopography of the council families von Alen, Darsow, Geverdes, Segeberg and Warendorf.
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925. No. 499
- Walter Paatz : The Lübeck stone sculpture of the first half of the 15th century (= publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 9, ZDB -ID 520795-2 ). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1929.
- Hildedard Vogler: Madonnas in Lübeck. Lübeck 1993, No. 46, p. 88
supporting documents
- ↑ Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Darsow, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Councilor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1434 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |