Jost de Laval

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Delavals signature on the Adoration of the Shepherds in St. Katharinen zu Lübeck

Jost de Laval (* probably in Flanders ; † before May 10, 1578 in Lübeck ; sometimes also called Delaval or de la Val ) was a presumably Flemish panel painter who mainly worked in Lübeck.

Life

Because he was neatly signed and dated, De Laval is recorded in Bruges in 1551 with four misericordia images in St. Salvator's Cathedral . From 1556 and until 1578 he can be verified as a free master in Lübeck . On May 10, 1578, his burial is documented in the cathedral churchyard.

He is said to have been a fashion painter in Lübeck in the second half of the 16th century who was “overwhelmed with commissions” and of whose works “around thirty can still be proven”. As early as 1820, the preacher Heinrich Christian Zietz had characterized and classified him as follows:

“He's not one of the famous masters, but one of the hardworking ones. His colors are not vivid, his drawings are not entirely correct, and his compositions are full of time mix-ups. However, the paintings in gray that are placed in the Katharinen Church may be among his better ones. "

Adoration of the Shepherds

A large part of his pictures were in the Marienkirche in Lübeck and in the Petrikirche as part of wooden epitaphs and thus became a victim of flames after the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 . One of his best works was the memorial painting for Hermann Meyer from 1575 in the Petrikirche, which was destroyed in 1942. His epitaph for the merchant Walter Holsten (1578) in the Marienkirche, which was also destroyed, is considered the earliest example of a special form of the Renaissance epitaph from Lübeck.

Laval's works were formerly also in the Hamburg Nikolaikirche , in the Kieler Nikolaikirche, in the church of Petersdorf on Fehmarn and in Denmark.

In the Katharinenkirche , which remained undestroyed during the war , there is still his Adoration of the Shepherds (1569) from a series of seven panels that used to hang in the central nave on the eight eastern pillars (with the exception of the pulpit pillar ).

In Ratzeburg Cathedral , he created the three-winged epitaph of Canon Laurentius Meiger (1567) with his characteristic grisaille painting on the outer wings.

Epitaph for Bartholomeus Tinnappel

In Visby Cathedral a painted by him in 1575 Epitaph depends commemorating the 1566 before Gotland drowned Mayor of Lübeck and Admiral Bartholomeus Tinnappel . It bears a German inscription:

"Anno 1566, July 27th, Iro Magnificenc the Lord Admirall and Mayor of Lübeck Bartholomeus Tinnapfel stranded here under Wisby and is buried here in the choir."

Francis Beckett, a former teacher at the University of Copenhagen, was concerned in 1932 with the question of whether the painter Jost Delaval, who was active in Lübeck, could possibly be identical with Jost Verheiden, who was also active at the time.

literature

  • Heinrich Christian Zietz: Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its surroundings. Frankfurt a. M. 1822.
  • Laval, Jost de . 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, p. 470 .
  • Gunnar Svahnström: Tinnapfelepitafiets mästare . In: Gotländskt arkiv . No. 58 , 1986, ISSN  0434-2429 , pp. 53-58 .
  • Anne-Dore Ketelsen-Volkhardt: Schleswig-Holstein epitaphs of the 16th and 17th centuries. Karl Wachholtz, Neumünster 1989 (= studies on Schleswig-Holstein art history. Volume 15).

Web links

Commons : Jost de Laval  - collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ Laval, Jost de . 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, p. 470 .
  2. ^ Heinrich Christian Zietz: Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its surroundings. P. 372 (de Lavall, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ) and on p. 63 (Marienkirche, de la Val, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Anne-Dore Ketelsen-Volkhardt: Schleswig-Holstein epitaphs of the 16th and 17th centuries. P. 239.
  4. ↑ Bartholomeus Tinnapfels epitafium (1575). Pp. 66–68 ( diva-portal.org PDF, Swedish).
  5. ^ Francis Beckett: Jost Verheiden - Jost Delaval . In: Artes: monuments et memoires . tape 1 . Haase, Copenhagen 1932, OCLC 913404789 , p. 289-299 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Laval, Jost de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delaval; de la Val
BRIEF DESCRIPTION probably a Flemish panel painter who worked mainly in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Flanders
DATE OF DEATH after 1578
Place of death Lübeck