Matthes Gebel
Matthes Gebel ( Signum MG , * around 1500; † April 22, 1574 ) was a German medalist and sculptor of the Renaissance .
Live and act
Matthes Gebel has been a citizen of Nuremberg since 1523 , in that year he received citizenship from the city to which he immigrated. The Free Imperial City of Nuremberg was an important center of German medal art. Many wealthy citizens and nobles had show coins, i.e. medals, made here to document their status and wealth. It corresponded to the new self-confidence of the sitter during this time. From 1525 to 1555 Gebel was active there as a medalist. One of his first medals was a depiction on Albrecht Dürer in 1527.
As a result, he designed medals from important citizens such as Raimund Fugger , Friedrich Behaim, Georg Hörmann , from many nobles, important princes and rulers, such as Philip of the Palatinate , Elector Johann Heinrich of Saxony, Elector Johann Friedrich of Saxony , Margrave Georg of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria. He visited the Reichstag in Speyer in 1529 and Augsburg in 1530, where he met many important personalities and received orders from them to design a portrait medal. In total, he created a work of 350 medals as a counterfetter, making him the most productive medalist of his time.
Since he came technically from the goldsmith's art, which included the production of seals, he cut his models in stone, it was Stechstein from Solnhofen , for this he used burins and carving knives. His models are finely cut, he attached particular importance to the portrayal and character, while Friedrich Hagenauer focused on the representation of the stand in his design. The inscriptions at Gebel are more withdrawn and the delicate leaf edges are reminiscent of versions that were common in goldsmithing. Gebels medals were cast in silver and bronze .
Gebel was married twice, his first wife Margarethe died in 1556, then he married Ursula Burckhardt.
With Hans Schwarz , Friedrich Hagenauer and Christoph Weiditz, Matthes Gebel is one of the most important medalists of the German Renaissance.
literature
- Georg Habich: The German medalists of the XVI. Century. Riechmann, Halle ad Saale 1916, p. 76ff.
- Georg Habich (Hrsg.): The German show coins of the XVI. Century. Part 1: Georg Habich: Sorted by masters and schools. Half of the 1st Bruckmann, Munich 1929.
- Arthur Suhle : The German Renaissance Medal. A cultural image from the first half of the 16th century. Seemann, Leipzig 1950.
- Ludwig Veit: Gebel, Matthes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 112 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Paul Arnold: Medal portraits of the Reformation period. Evangelical Publishing House Berlin 1967.
- Wolfgang Steguweit : European medal art from the Renaissance to the present. SMPK - Münzkabinett, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88609-379-4 .
Web links
- Gebels medals in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Matthes Gebel at Sotheby's auction house
- Matthes Gebel in the Encyclopædia britannica
- Matthes Gebel in the list of medalists
Individual evidence
- ^ Medal for Margrave Albrecht from 1534, Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in the German Digital Library
- ↑ beyars.com - Stechstein
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gebel, Matthes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medalist and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1500 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1574 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |