Ludwig Münstermann

Ludwig Münstermann (* around 1560 or 1575; † around 1638/1639) was a sculptor and wood carver of Mannerism, probably from Bremen , who worked in Hamburg .

Life

Altar, pulpit and baptismal font of the Varel Castle Church

King David from the Rotenburg Organ Prospect (1608) in the Focke Museum in Bremen

Ludwig Münstermann is said to come from Bremen. Before 1599 he worked in the workshop of the Bremen sculptor Hans Winter (1565–1603). In addition, Tonnies and Heinrich Münstermann were carpenters in Bremen at the time. During this apprenticeship, he got to know the Mannerist style of decoration, which was taken over from Cornelis Floris and which was particularly widespread through engravings . In 1599 he became a master of the Hamburg turner's office as a not born in Hamburg. From 1607 to 1612 he worked at the Oldenburg Castle .

He designed many altars , pulpits and organ prospectuses in churches , especially in Oldenburg . The largest preserved altar is in the Varel Castle Church . In the St. Ansgariikirche in Bremen he worked on epitaphs (around 1590, in the winter workshop). The organ prospectus from the former castle chapel of Rotenburg / Wümme (1608) and a stone statue of Hercules are in the Focke Museum in Bremen.

In the churches of St. Matthäus in Stadland - Rodenkirchen (1629–31) and St. Secundus in Stadland- Schwei (1618–38) there are further altars, pulpits and baptismal font lids by Ludwig Münstermann, in Hohenkirchen the altar (1620) and pulpit (1628 ), in St. Hippolytus in Blexen altar figures and a pulpit (1638).

Münstermann is one of the most exposed representatives of mannerist sculpture in northern Germany. His style is characterized by peculiarly exaggerated figuration, moving to the point of grotesque, and dramatic expressiveness; the representations are framed by fragmented mannerist ornamentation and architectural elements. An essential part of his way of decoration are elaborate color versions in downright garish tones and luster , some of which were lost through incomprehensible "restorations". It is significant that Münstermann was only noticed by art history scholars in the era of Expressionism .

A street is named after him in the Hamburg district of Hamburg-Barmbek-Nord .

Markus Lüpertz is one of the contemporary artists who were inspired by Münstermann .

literature

• Martha Riesebieter: Ludwig Münstermann. A contribution to the history of early Low German baroque sculpture. Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing house, Berlin 1930 ( digitized version ).
• Munster man, Ludwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931.
• Peter Königfeld , Günter Goege, Klaus Thönes: Die Farbigkeitder Bildwerke Ludwig Münstermanns , in: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Restoration of cultural monuments. Examples from the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony (= reports on the preservation of monuments , supplement 2), Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Verlag CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1989, ISBN 3-87585-152-8 , pp. 286-292.
• Wilhelm Knollmann, Dietmar Jürgen Ponert, Rolf Schäfer: Ludwig Münstermann . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 978-3-89442-134-2 .
• Holger Reimers: Ludwig Münstermann. Between Protestant asceticism and counter-Reformation sensuality . Jonas Verlag, Marburg 1993, ISBN 978-3-89445-152-3 .
• Dietmar Jürgen Ponert:  Münstermann, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 545 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Jörgen Welp, Kerstin Schnaars: In the footsteps of Ludwig Münstermann. Touristikgemeinschaft Wesermarsch, Brake 2005, 2007 ( digitized ).
• Susanna Partsch : Münstermann, Ludwig . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 91, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023257-8 , p. 218.
• Dietmar J. Ponert, Rolf Schäfer : Ludwig Münstermann. The master - the workshop - the successors. Mannerist sculpture in the service of Lutheran doctrine in churches in the County of Oldenburg. Isensee Verlag / Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Oldenburg / Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7308-1275-4 / ISBN 978-3-7954-3166-2 .
• Rolf Schäfer: Münstermann - Pictures. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7308-1398-0 .
• Dietmar J. Ponert: The organ prospectuses Ludwig Münstermanns. Rotenburg an der Wümme (1608), Varel (1615), Delmenhorst (1618), Oldenburg (1635), Berne (1638). In: Acta Organologica . Vol. 35, 2017, pp. 39-74.

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Münstermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ludwig Münstermann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ludwig Münstermann in the culture portal Northwest
• kirche-oldenburg.de: May 27, 2011: Presentation of the restored Münstermann pulpit in Rodenkirchen (accessed on May 22, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lexicon of Art , Volume 5: Mosb-Q. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-865-02084-4 , p. 40.
2. ^ Albert Erich Brinckmann : Barockskulptur , 1917, p.?.
3. ↑ [1] .