Klaus Grude

Klaus Grude († after 1493) was a late Gothic ore and red caster in Lübeck .

life and work

Sacrament house in Lübeck's Marienkirche

The name of this Lübeck foundryman is linked to two important surviving works: Grude produced the third and youngest of the great Lübeck Fünten for the Jakobikirche and the sacrament house for the Marienkirche .

The bronze baptismal font of the Jakobikirche is signed and dated by Grude during the casting with Pentecost 1466. It was a testamentary foundation of the Lübeck councilor Johann Broling . The basin stands on the same feet in the shape of kneeling angels as Lorenz Grove's baptismal font from 1455 in Lübeck Cathedral . From this it is concluded that the Grove forms must have passed to Klaus Grude. On the outside of the cauldron, nine reliefs with pictures of the apostles are riveted, so the baptismal font was not cast in one piece.

The sacrament house in the Marienkirche is a tower with a height of 9.5 meters with approx. 1,000 bronze, partly gold-plated individual parts on the north wall of the choir. The cast is adorned with a large number of figures and is based on the design by the goldsmith Klaus Rughese . It was created by Grude in collaboration with Rughese between 1476 and 1479.

Grude is also proven by real estate in Lübeck between 1480 and 1493.

literature

• Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Publishing house by Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 374–377. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
• Gustav Lindtke: Lübeck bronze baptisms of the Middle Ages. In: The car . 1966, pp. 53-62.
• Klaus Grude . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 58, Saur, Munich a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-22798-1 , p. 332.
• Grude, Klaus . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 122 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. No. 525; † 146 4 (!), Schonen driver ; In his will, he donated 4,000 marks to his city for the construction of the Holsten Gate .
2. ^ Thieme-Becker : Documentary mention 1469, Ältermann in Lübeck 1483, † before 1491.
3. ↑ Latin inscription text at the sacraments house with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Misunderstood treasures - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 28 ff. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6 .