Konrad Kuene van der Hallen

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Konrad Kuene van der Hallen (* 1400 or 1410 ; † January 28, 1469, probably in Cologne ; also Koene, Coene, Kuen, Kuyn) was an important German stone sculptor and Cologne cathedral master builder .

Epitaph of the master builder in Cologne Cathedral

Life

Konrad is said to have come to Burgundy and Lyon as a stonemason and worked for Jacques Morel , a successor to the sculptor Claus Sluter . The artist named with the emergency name: “Master of the Mariaschlaf Altar” of the work of the same name in the Frankfurt Cathedral is considered to be his teacher. He was probably influenced by the painters Jan van Eyck and Stefan Lochner .

After the years of traveling he married Styngin van Bueren, a niece of the then incumbent Cologne cathedral builder Nikolaus van Bueren (1380–1445). In 1444 he is attested as a councilor . In 1445 Konrad himself becomes a cathedral builder; "Master Coynrait Kuene van der Hallen, foreman zerzijt zome Dome in Coelne" is what he says in the shrine books . A son Johann is mentioned for 1466. An epitaph in Cologne Cathedral (under the organ) commemorates his death on January 28, 1469

Services

Konrad is considered one of the most important stone sculptors of his time. His memory was present in Cologne until the 17th century. In the Wilhelminian era of enthusiasm for the completion of the cathedral, a “Kuenstrasse” was named in Cologne-Nippes.

Konrad worked primarily as a stone sculptor for private clients. As such, he is a representative of the so-called soft or beautiful style . His clients no longer wanted to be represented as ideal-typical masks, but as recognizable individual people. Konrad may have established the tradition of depicting a Moor as a member of the Three Kings . The former cathedral builder Arnold Wolff assumes that the realistic representation of the African goes back to the encounter with a slave whom the archbishop might have brought back from a trip to Italy.

At this time, the money for the construction of Cologne Cathedral was already starting to run out. Konrad's share in the building of the cathedral is not guaranteed. It is possible that he had parts of the north nave side aisles built, the north-western atrium of the old Romanesque cathedral demolished and the foundations and the basement laid for the north tower, which was only completed when the building was continued in the 19th century.

The stonemasons' brotherhood recognized him and "all sine Nachkumen glicher wise" on their daily statutes in 1459 in Regensburg and 1463 in Speyer the master mastery over the area of ​​northern Germany.

Works

See also

Portal: Cologne Cathedral  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the subject of Cologne Cathedral

literature

  • Eberhard Kühnemann: On the sculptural work of the cathedral builder Konrad Kuyn , in: Kölner Domblatt Vol. 6/7 (1952) pp. 39–48
  • Heinrich Appel: The sculptures of the Cologne cathedral builder Konrad Kuyn (gest. 1469) , in: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch Vol. 10 (1938), pp. 91-131
  • Arnold Wolff:  Kuene van der Hallen, Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 219 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • JJ Merlo: Kuehne , in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Bd .: 17, Leipzig, 1883, p. 377f
  • Paul Clemen (Ed.): The Cologne Cathedral (= The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province. Volume 6, Part III). Reprint of the 2nd, increased edition, Düsseldorf, 1938. Düsseldorf Schwann 1980, ISBN 3-590-32101-6
  • Isphording, O. - The Gothic Cologne sculpture of the 15th century, Diss.Bonn 1912
  • Kühnemann, E. - On the sculptural work of the cathedral builder Konrad Kuyn, Kölner Domblatt 6 (1952)
  • Merlo, Joh. Jakob - Messages from the life and works of Cologne artists, Düsseldorf 1895, Sp. 507-513
  • Johann Jakob Merlo : History of the Cologne Cathedral Builders (= No. 75 of the yearbooks of the Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland), 1883
  • Paatz, W. - entanglements in late Gothic art between 1360 and 1530, Heidelberg 1967
  • Böttcher, Petra - The epitaph for Konrad Kuyn in Cologne Cathedral, Kölner Domblatt 60 (1995), 47
  • Max Hasak : The Cologne Cathedral , Berlin 1911, p. 110ff ( online )
  • Johann Jakob Merlo:  Kuene van der Hallen, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 377 f.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Epitaph d. Master builder Konrad Kuyn on koelner-dom.de ( Memento from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b NDB vol. 13, Berlin 1968, p. 220
  3. ↑ Merlos, ADB, p. 378
  4. ↑ JJMerlo: Two Monuments Cologne Cathedral architect of the XV. Century , in: Journal for Christian Art 1st vol. No. 8, Düsseldorf 1888, Sp. 265ff
  5. ↑ One of the figures represents the predecessor Nikolaus van Bueren, another is possibly a self-portrait.
  6. ↑ Figure and explanation

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personal data
SURNAME Kuene van der Hallen, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koene; Coene; Kuen; Kuyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cathedral builder and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1400 or 1410
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1469
Place of death uncertain: Cologne