Master Tilman

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Master Tilman of Cologne is one of the few carvers and sculptors of the late 15th century that has been documented; He probably created a large number of sculptures with his Cologne workshop, which can be found mainly in and around Cologne.

Statue of Saint Christopher in Cologne Cathedral
Three Kings, Museum Schnütgen

State of research

Until the 1970s, Master Tilman was equated with the stonemason Tilman van der Burch . In the meantime, however, he is mostly identified with Tilman Heysacker called Krayndunck in the latest attributions . Master Tilman, who probably learned from the wood carver Master Arndt in Kalkar († 1492, also Arnt and Arndt von Zwolle), worked in Cologne from around 1475 to 1515 according to documented orders. “In 1487 Master Tilman received the order for the grave figures of Count Gerhard II. Von Sayn and his wife Elisabeth von Sierck in the monastery church of Marienstatt in the Westerwald, in 1505 he worked on an altarpiece for the Wesel Calvary Chapel (now in St.Martini) and in 1509 / 10 he created a succession of apostles in the parish church of Siegburg . These three groups of works of different style levels, archived and preserved for Tilman, form the stable framework for numerous attributions of further works beginning around 1475 in a style-critical way ”. At that time, his workshop was probably Cologne's leading carving workshop, which also supplied its figures in the region from Wesel to the Moselle and as far as Dortmund.

Attributions

Pietà St. Severin, Hermülheim
Crucifixion group St. Severin (Hermülheim)

Cologne stock

Cologne area

Outside the Cologne area

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Peter Hilger : The Master of St. Christophorus in Cologne Cathedral. In: Kölner Domblatt . Yearbook of the Central Cathedral Building Association. 27th episode, 1967.
  2. ^ Gunter Fabian: Crucifix by Tilman. New finds on the work and the person of a Cologne carver. In: Kölner Domblatt. Yearbook of the Central Cathedral Building Association. 42nd Series, 1977, pp. 267-276.
  3. ↑ Miriam Szőcs: Christ on the cross with Mary and John the Evangelist (former crucifixion group). In: Dagmar Täube , Miriam Verena Fleck (Hrsg.): Splendor and size of the Middle Ages. Cologne masterpieces from the great collections of the world. ISBN 978-3-7774-4531-1 , pp. 370-372.
  4. ↑ Henri LM Defoer: Middeleeuwse beelden op huis Bergh. (PDF; 740 kB) p. 4 and footnote ix p. 11 ("Meester Tilman is waarschijnlijk identiek with 'Tilman Heysacker gnant Krayendunck', the sea paints in de Keulse archieven wordt genoemd. In other documents, hij is called 'Tilman bildensnider' , 'bijldensnijder' of 'bildensnijder' aangeduid ")
  5. ↑ AQrnt of Zwolle + student Tilman at LVR
  6. ↑ Dirk Strohmann: A late medieval Madonna from the workshop of the Cologne carver Meister Tilman in Wilnsdorf , In: Denkmalpflege in Westfalen-Lippe. 1/08, pp. 12-15. (online see below)
  7. ↑ According to the description of the picture, Man of Sorrows at St. Aposteln Cologne
  8. ↑ Britta Havlicek: Herrmüllemer Dom St. Severin commemorates four churches , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger January 3, 2014 [1]
  9. ↑ Historical recordings with accompanying figures at bliesheim.info (accessed January 2013)
  10. ↑ Restoration of the Bliesheimer Kreuz: layer by layer towards the master. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger. December 28, 2009.
  11. ↑ Pictures at bastgen.de
  12. ↑ Group atkreis.aw.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreis.aw-online.de
  13. ↑ Double grave for Count Gerhard II von Sayn (died 1493) and his wife Elisabeth von Sierck (died 1484). Enlargeable photos at: bildindex.de
  14. ↑ Karrenbroch, pp. 28-31.
  15. ↑ Lothar Stresius: Provost Church of St. Cornelius Kornelimünster . In: Schnell, Kunstführer . 1st edition. No. 2799 . Verlag Schnell & Steiner GmbH, Regensburg 2012, p. 20 .
  16. ↑ choir room. at: dom-essen.de
  17. ↑ Dirk Strohmann: A late medieval Madonna from the workshop of the Cologne carver Meister Tilman in Wilnsdorf. (PDF; 2.1 MB) In: Preservation of monuments in Westphalia-Lippe. 1/08, pp. 12-15.

literature

  • Holger Kempkens: Master Tilman and the carved altar by St. Kunibert in Cologne. In: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch. vol. 58 (1997) pp. 31-73.
  • Reinhard Karrenbrock: Cologne carving workshops of the late Middle Ages (1400–1540). To the state of research. In: Museum Schnütgen: The wood sculptures of the Middle Ages. Volume II: 1400 to 1540. Part 1: Cologne, Westphalia, Northern Germany. Arranged by Reinhard Karrenbrock. Cologne 2001, pp. 9–80, especially pp. 28–52.
  • Niklas Gliesmann: Gothic sculpture in Cologne - from the Parlers to Tilman's heirs . In: Splendor and Greatness of the Middle Ages. Cologne masterpieces from the great collections of the world. Hirmer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7774-4531-1 , pp. 151-153.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Master Tilman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German carver and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century