Ludger tom Ring the Elder
Ludger tom Ring the Elder (* 1496 in Münster ; † April 3, 1547 in Münster) was a painter and printer , and ancestor of the Münsterland artist family tom Ring .
Life
His training may have taken place in Holland . He worked as a painter and draftsman for woodcuts and created works of the Renaissance . Some of his works were at times ascribed to Holbein .
As a follower of Luther , he had to flee Münster from the Anabaptists in 1533 , but returned there later.
Marriage and offspring
Ludger tom Ring married Anna tom Ring (* 1495; † 1547) in 1519/20, who comes from the Rorup family. Together they had eight children, the most famous of whom are the three artists:
- Hermann tom Ring (born January 2, 1521 in Münster; † October 18, 1596 ibid)
- Ludger tom Ring the Younger (* July 19 or November 19, 1522 in Münster; † before May or before May 22, 1584 in Braunschweig )
- Herbert tom Ring (* approx. 1530 in Münster; † October 31, 1593 ibid)
Ludger and his wife died of an epidemic in quick succession on Palm Sunday 1547.
literature
- Angelika Lorenz: tom Ring, Ludger the Elder. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 629 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Theodor Riewerts , Paul Pieper : The painter tom ring. Ludger the Elder, Hermann, Ludger the Younger (= Westphalian art ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1955.
- Franz Weinitz : Ring, tom . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 630 f.
Web links
Commons : Ludger tom Ring the Elder - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th centuries , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 704
- ↑ a b Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, p. 194
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SURNAME | tom ring, Ludger the elder |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | tom ring, Ludger |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and printer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1496 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |
DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1547 |
Place of death | Muenster |