Matthew Black

Matthäus Schwartz ( Christoph Amberger , 1542)

Matthäus Schwarz (left) with Jakob Fugger in the Fugger's “ Golden Writing Room ”

Matthäus Schwarz (born February 19, 1497 in Augsburg ; † around 1574 there) was a merchant and art lover in Augsburg.

Life

Schwarz came from a carpenter's family who immigrated to Augsburg from Rettenbergen around 1400 and was the grandson of Ulrich Schwarz , who had been a municipal caretaker in Augsburg several times. After completing a commercial apprenticeship in Milan and Venice, where he acquired knowledge of accounting, he got a job with Jakob Fugger in 1516 . He became a confidante of the family and became chief accountant of the Fugger Company. In 1518 he wrote a commercial textbook with the book Musterbuchhaltung . Schwarz placed orders with various artists, including Narziss Renner .

The costume book of Matthäus Schwarz

The costume book from the years 1520 to 1560 in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library

Matthäus Schwarz's special love was his costumes, which is why he was nicknamed the `` dress fanatic '' . From 1520 onwards he had himself painted in full figure on various occasions for forty years. From Renner until 1536, then until 1560 by an artist from Christoph Amberger's workshop. These costume pictures, recorded in small books, record the exact occasion and circumstances, this biography begins with the birth. Two nude drawings capture the proportions of the body.

literature

• Elias Caspar Reichard : Matthäus and Veit Konrad Schwarz described in detail their strangest living conditions and variously changing costumes from two originals in the Duke-Braunschweig art and natural history cabinets and explained with comments [...]. A contribution to the history of clothing fashions, to the advancement of human knowledge and to the knowledge of the German language of the 16th century. Magdeburg 1786 ( digitized version )
• Balduin Penndorf : Matthäus Schwarz the "Fürneme", chief accountant of the Fugger . In: Journal for Commercial Science and Commercial Practice . Beiblatt Der Kaufmann und das Leben (1912) No. 8, pp. 114–118.
• August Fink: The Schwarzschen costume books . German Association for Art History, Berlin 1963.
• Günther Grünsteudel , Günter Hägele, Rudolf Frankenberger (eds.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon. 2nd Edition. Perlach, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 , ( augsburger-stadtlexikon.de )
• Mark Häberlein:  Schwarz, Matthäus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 2 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ulinka Rublack , Maria Hayward (Ed.): The First Book of Fashion. The Book of Clothes of Matthäus & Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg. Bloomsbury, London / New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-8578-5768-2 .

Web links

Commons : Matthäus Schwarz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Costume book of Matthaus Schwarz from Augsburg, 1520–1560 (PDF)
• Digitized copy in Paris
• Images from the traditional costume books at picture index You go to: Places / Germany / B / Braunschweig / Collections / Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum / Applied Arts / Illumination / Das Schwarzsche Trachtenbuch I + II.