Lorenz Lechler
Lorenz Lechler (also Lacher and Lechner , * around 1460 in Heidelberg (?); † before 1538 (?) In Heidelberg (?)) Was a German builder , court builder from the Palatinate, and author of a master craftsman's book .
Life
Not very much is known about Lechler's life. He was born around 1460 and is first attested before 1496 in Esslingen . There he worked at the city church of St. Dionys , where he created the rood screen and the sacraments . Lechler planned to go to Milan to build the cathedral there, because the city council of Esslingen issued him a letter of recommendation in 1496. But he doesn't seem to have worked in Milan.
In 1503 he was called to Heidelberg for life as "the Palatinate Baumeister vnd Pixenmeister", where he worked as a court artist under the Electors Philipp and Ludwig V. In 1516 he wrote an “Instruction” for his son Moritz , one of the few surviving master craftsmen's books. Thereafter, there are no further explicit testimonies about the life of Lorenz Lechler. He probably died before 1538 when his son Moritz was appointed chief architect in the Palatinate. Another son Lorenz was a bell and gun founder in Heidelberg and created a bronze tomb for Ludwig V.
Works
- Rood screen and the sacrament house in the city church of St. Dionys in Esslingen
- Mount of Olives Chapel in the Speyer cathedral cloister
- Presumably women's room building, Ludwig building and so-called library building on the Heidelberg Castle , perhaps also there the fortifications at the beginning of the 16th century.
literature
- Anneliese Seeliger-Zeiss, Lorenz Lechler from Heidelberg and his circle. Studies on the history of late Gothic ornamental architecture and sculpture in the Electoral Palatinate and Swabia . Heidelberg 1967.
- Anneliese Seeliger-Zeiss, studies on the stonemason book of Lorenz Lechler from 1516. A previously unknown fragment in the possession of the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe . In: Architectura - Journal for the History of Architecture , Volume 1982, pp. 125–150.
- Lon R. Shelby, Robert Mark: Late Gothic Structural Design in the 'Instructions' of Lorenz Lechler . In: Architectura - Journal for the History of Architecture , Volume 1979, pp. 113-131.
- Anneliese Seeliger-Zeiss: Lechler, Lorenz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 29 f. ( Digitized version ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lechler, Lorenz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lacher, Lorenz; Lechner, Lorenz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German builder and author of a master craftsman's book |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1460 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: Heidelberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: before 1538 |
| Place of death | uncertain: Heidelberg |