Master of the Ansbach Swan Knights

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Ansbach, St. Gumbertus, Swan Knights Chapel

With master of Ansbacher Swan Knights of German is a sculptor called, of some of the grave monuments in St. Gumbertus Church in Ansbach created. You are in the St. George's Chapel of this order church founded by Margrave Albrecht Achilles for the members of the Order of the Swans . With the epitaphs , the master depicted deceased members of the Ansbach knighthood in almost life-size form and full of armor, with their coats of arms and medals like a chain of orders. For example, Conrad von Lüchau is shown.

Creative period and identification

The master of the Ansbach swan knights was active between 1486 and 1515, possibly in Ansbach itself, and is said to have created other grave monuments in Middle Franconia .

The master's name was possibly Jorg Ampauer (1465–1522).

Works (selection)

  • Grave monuments of the Ansbach knighthood. Ansbach, St. Gumpertus Church.
  • Grave monument of the knight Paul von Absberg (contemporary and comrade in arms of Götz von Berlichingen), around 1503, (attributed). Gunzenhausen. Evangelical Luth. City Church of St. Mariae Virginis

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Master of the Ansbach Swan Knights . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, p. 19 .
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Ansbach Swan Knights
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1486
DATE OF DEATH after 1515