Melchior Bocksberger
Melchior Bocksberger (* around 1537 in Salzburg , † around 1587 in Regensburg ) was a painter and draftsman.
Life
Melchior Bocksberger learned the painting trade from his uncle Hans Bocksberger the elder , as did his son Hans Bocksberger the younger. In terms of art history, the two cousins were sometimes classified as a single person in the past.
Presumably between 1558 and 1573 he was court painter to Albrecht V , orders for the painting of Dachau Castle (1563), for the church in Isareck Castle near Moosburg an der Isar (1570) and in the Barefoot Monastery in Munich (1571) have been secured .
Melchior Bocksberger was also a facade painter, but hardly any originals have survived. The design for the Regensburg town hall (1573) has been preserved from his complete works of drawings . There, Bocksberger designed an eclectic style for a facade that was typical of 16th century town hall decorations.
His other works in Regensburg are over-restored or poorly preserved : The Goliath at the Goliathhaus (1573), the east wing of the cloister of St. Emmeram , paintings on the Bishop's Court and the Neue Waag . The painting Elias goes to heaven (Munich, Alte Pinakothek ) is assured of painterly creativity .
literature
- Lothar Pretzell: Bocksberger, Johann Melchior. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 346 ( digitized version ).
- The Bocksberger family of painters from Salzburg: Painting between the Reformation and the Italian Renaissance , Susanne Kaeppele, Verlag Freunde der Salzburger Geschichte 2003, ISBN 978-3950071283 .
- Preservation of monuments in Regensburg: Contributions to preservation of monuments in Regensburg for the years 2009 and 2010 , Pustet Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3791723716 .
Web links
- Summary: Susanne Kaeppele: The Bocksberger family of painters from Salzburg
- Works by and about Melchior Bocksberger in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bocksberger, Melchior |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1537 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1587 |
| Place of death | regensburg |