Jos Gundersheimer

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Jos Gundersheimer (mentioned from 1483 , † 1517 ; also Guntersumer , of Günersum , master Joss ) was an in Basel active carpenter and wood carver .

Live and act

Jos Gundersheimer came from "Wylen" (assignment unclear). In 1483 he was accepted into the spinning weather guild in Basel and in 1488 he also acquired Basel citizenship. From 1502 to 1504 he worked on the restoration of the front altar in the church of the Basel preacher monastery .

He received "for the production of the Corpus Christi and its accessories" the then unusually high sum of 1000 guilders, which indicates a high reputation. No certain works have been preserved by him and his son Dominicus Bildhower , but several works are ascribed to them. Jos Gundersheimer is probably identical with the "Master of the Rheinfelder Maria". Alongside those of Martin Hoffmann and Martin Lebzelter, his workshop was one of the leading sculptor's studios in Basel in the early 16th century.

literature

  • Pantxika Béguerie: Les Guntersumer, un atelier de sculpteurs bâlois (1489–1526). In: Le Saint Jacques de Gueberschwihr, une sculpture bâloise du début du XVIe siècle. Exhibition catalog. Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar 1993, pp. 14-29.
  • Carl Brun (Red.): Swiss Artist Lexicon. Vol. 2.
  • Ludwig August Burckhardt and Christoph Riggenbach : The Dominican monastery church in Basel. Basel 1855.
  • De Gruyter General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 66: Gunten - Haaren. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23033-2 .
  • Monique Fuchs: La sculpture en haute-Alsace à la fin du moyen from 1456-1521. Colmar 1987.
  • Stefan Hess / Wolfgang Loescher : Furniture in Basel. Art and craft of the carpenters until 1798. Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-85616-545-1 .
  • Annie Kaufmann-Hagenbach: The Basel sculpture of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Basel 1952. (= Basel Studies on Art History , Vol. 10).
  • Paul Koelner : History of the spinning weather guild in Basel and their crafts. Basel 1931 (reprint 1970).
  • François Maurer: The art monuments of the canton Basel-Stadt, Vol. 5: The churches, monasteries and chapels, 3rd part: St. Peter to Ulrichskirche. Basel 1966.
  • Johann Rudolf Rahn : History of the fine arts in Switzerland. 1876.
  • Hans Rott : Sources and research on southwest German and Swiss art history in the XV. and XVI. Century III: The Upper Rhine, Sources II. Stuttgart 1936.
  • Rudolf Wackernagel : Messages from the Basel archives on the history of art and handicrafts. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine, NF, Vol. 6 (1891), pp. 301-315.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz-Josef Sladeczek : Lebzelter, Martin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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personal data
SURNAME Gundersheimer, Jos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES from Günersum, Jos; Guntersumer, Jos; Master Joss
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss carvers and joiners
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1517