Kaspar Meglinger

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Kaspar Meglinger (by Johann Rudolph Schellenberg )

Kaspar Meglinger (born August 16, 1595 in Lucerne ; † around 1670 there ) was a Swiss painter.

Life

Meglinger was born in 1595 as the son of the stonemason and sculptor Michael Meglinger and his wife Verena. From 1609 he attended the Jesuit high school in Lucerne and then completed an apprenticeship with the painter Jakob von Wyl .

In 1620, only one year after the death of his teacher, he married his widow Katharina and also took over the studio. In 1622 he joined the Gesellschaft zum Fritschi , the Lucerne society of stone cutters and painters. 1630, he served as minister of the Lukasbruderschaft and 1647-1655 as Sust - active and weigher. In 1633 he married a second time after his first wife died giving birth to their seventh child.

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One of the panels of the dance of death cycle on the Spreuer Bridge in Lucerne .
Spreuerbrücke Plate 60, The Messenger (original missing)

Meglinger's work comprises around 150 individual images, most of which were created between 1616 and 1645. Meglinger first appeared as a painter in 1616. Almost nothing is known about the master's late work, but he is considered an important painter in Central Switzerland between 1620 and 1660. Among the painter's most important works are the 72 panels from the dance of death cycle for the Spreuer Bridge in Lucerne. The painter also worked as a barrel painter , painted sculptures and carried out decorative paintings, including in the Lucerne Court Church , the cloister in the Werthenstein Monastery and the Hergiswald pilgrimage church .

Meglinger's most important works include:

  • St. Eligius in the Gormund chaplain (community Neudorf ).
  • 1626–1637 panels from the dance of death cycle for the Spreuer Bridge in Lucerne
  • 1624–1634 twelve-part cycle and high altar in the pilgrimage church of Adelwil ( Neuenkirch municipality ), each of which tells the story of St. Gallus and St. Einsteth tells.
  • 1635 Memorial picture for the foundation of Werthenstein Monastery
  • 1644 portraits of the town builder Ludwig Meyer and the architect Jakob Kurrer, as well as three altarpieces of St. Mauritius, St. Leodegar and St. Benedict
  • around 1642/43 Altar leaves in the cloister of the Franciscan monastery in Lucerne
  • 1656 slogans in the Magdenau monastery
  • Portrait on the deathbed of Jost Knab in St. Leodegar im Hof in Lucerne

literature

  • Johann Caspar Füssli : History of the best artist in Switzerland: together with their portraits . Volume 3, Zurich, 1770, p. 69 f.
  • Adolf Reinle : The Lucerne painter Kaspar Meglinger . In: Central Switzerland yearbook for local history . Volume 17-18, Verlag Schiling, Lucerne 1954, p. 9 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Horat: Meglinger, Kaspar (Caspar). In: Sikart (status: 1998), accessed on August 21, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Meglinger, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1595
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH around 1670
Place of death Lucerne