Matthias Gerung

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Matthias Gerung: The melancholy in the garden of life , 1558, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Sheet 294 of the Ottheinrich Bible illustrated by Gerung

Matthias Gerung , in older literature also Mathias Geron (* around 1500 in Nördlingen , † 1570 in Lauingen ), was a German painter and wood cutter .

He was probably the son of the shoemaker Matthias († 1521) from Nördlingen , known as the violinist , and possibly an apprentice to Hans Schäufelin , older literature also describes him as a student of Hans Burgkmair . In 1525 Gerung moved to Lauingen in what was then the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg . There he was married to Anna Reiser, who was possibly the daughter of the Lauingen painter Matthes Reiser († around 1519), whose workshop Matthias Gerung in Lauingen could have taken over. The couple had two sons, Hans and Ambrosius.

In Lauingen Gerung was mentioned in the tax lists until 1568. In addition to being a painter, he is also known as a Wagmeister and a sealer. From 1530/31 he carried out numerous commissions for Count Palatine Ottheinrich , including the wallpaper design of Neuburg Castle , the production of genealogical tapestries, and above all the illustration of the Ottheinrich Bible , which today is one of the most precious illuminated manuscripts in the world. Gerung added a total of 117 illustrations to the Bible, which had already been started around 100 years earlier, and his activity is documented by two treaties from 1530 and 1531.

Gerung's detailed panel paintings, such as The Melancholy in the Garden of Life around 1558 (owned by the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe ) or the depiction of the army camp of Charles V near Lauingen from 1551 (created for the town hall in Lauingen, with Gerung's self-portrait in the right half of the picture) today provide information about life in the 16th century. In addition to works that can be clearly assigned to Gerung, satirical woodcuts critical of the Pope are also attributed to the Reformation .

literature

Web links

Commons : Matthias Gerung  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Zoepfl:  Gerung, Mathis. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 334 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Büttner / Wimböck: The image as an authority , 2004
  3. ↑ C. Becker: The painter and tailor Mathias Geron from Lauingen , in Deutsches Kunstblatt , 2nd year (1851), p. 204f.
personal data
SURNAME Gerung, Matthias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geron, Mathis; Gerung, Mathis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordlingen
DATE OF DEATH 1570
Place of death Lauingen