Leonhard Wagner
Leonhard Wagner (* 1453 in Schwabmünchen , † 1522 in Augsburg ) was the most important calligrapher of the German Renaissance .
The monk, also cited as "Master Leonhard" or Wirstlin, made his profession in 1472 in the Benedictine order of the Augsburg imperial abbey of St. Ulrich and Afra and was mainly employed in the scriptorium there from around 1478. He learned the art of handwriting in other monasteries. In the scriptorium of the imperial abbey, Wagner wrote over 50 manuscripts and created a particularly concise calligraphic Gothic script . This makes him the creator of the first pure “fractura germanica” (1507).
1502–1506 he worked as a subprior of the monastery. In the spring of 1509 he went on a pilgrimage to Einsiedeln , from November 1509 to January 1511 he stayed at the St. Gallen monastery. The monk had a special bond with the German king and later Emperor Maximilian I. The magnificent work "Vita Sancti Simperti", which is also adorned with illustrations by Hans Holbein the Elder , was commissioned by the ruler. The sample book with over 100 fonts, “Proba centum scripturarum una manu exaratarum”, Wagner's masterpiece from 1507 , is dedicated to him . Some of the writings developed by this calligrapher himself are immortalized there.
The Leonhard Wagner Schools in Schwabmünchen were named after him .
literature
- Stefan Hess : Wagner, Leonhard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti , Rudolf Gampe, Marlis Stähli: The manuscripts of the St. Gallen-Zurich libraries (= catalog of the dated manuscripts in Switzerland in Latin script from the beginning of the Middle Ages to 1550, volume 3), Urs Graf Verlag, Dietikon ZH 1991 , Pp. 156, 313, ISBN 3-85951-127-0 (text volume); ISBN 3-85951-127-0 (illustrations).
- Rolf Schmidt: Reichenau and St. Gallen. Their literary tradition at the time of monastery humanism in St. Ulrich and Afra zu Augsburg around 1500 (= Konstanz Working Group for Medieval History: Lectures and Research , Special Volume 33 ISSN 0933-4467 ), Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1985, pp. 152-177, ISBN 3 -7995-6693-7 (Dissertation University of Augsburg 1982, 211 pages full text online PDF, free of charge, 211 pages, 124 MB).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Beinert: Fraktur - German script (script classification). In: typolexikon.de. 2019, accessed on June 4, 2020 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Leonhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Calligrapher of the late German Renaissance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1453 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwabmünchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1522 |
| Place of death | augsburg |