Ludger tom Ring the Elder

Self-portrait

Portrait of Anna tom Ring, b. Rorup

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

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th centuries , Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 704
2. ↑ ^{a b} Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, p. 194