Michael Ostendorfer
Michael Ostendorfer (also Michael Ostendorffer ; * 1490 or 1494 in Osterdorf in Swabia or Ostendorf or Hemau , † beginning of December 1559 in Regensburg ) was a German painter and draftsman. Stylistically, his works are influenced by the Danube School , as he probably worked for Albrecht Altdorfer .
Life
Ostendorfer probably came from Swabia and was employed as a court painter at the court of Elector Friedrich II in Neumarkt . He probably moved to Regensburg in 1519, where he married and in 1528 bought a house in Steckgasse that he owned until 1540. In the period from approx. 1535 to 1544 Ostendorfer worked again as court painter to Friedrich II in Neumarkt and then turned to Amberg, where his trace was lost for a few years, until in 1549 he again acquired citizenship in Regensburg, which had become Protestant. Due to a lack of orders, he lived with his family in meager circumstances and got into debt that he could only pay with difficulty because gout prevented him from working and his wife and two children died. The city council and the evangelical community provided him with orders for painting fountains and for making city views and city events in the form of woodcuts. In 1554, the city council gave him the important order to make the Reformation altar in the Regensburg Neupfarrkirche , but only granted him part of the advance payment requested because the council was aware of the artist's careless handling of money. The altar was completed in 1555 without the artist's financial situation improving. A year later, Ostendorfer gave up his household and moved into a home maintained by the city's alms office in the Brother House Foundation . When he tried to give painting classes there to reduce his debt level, arguments broke out. Ostendorfer died at the end of 1559 and his estate directory is a document of abject poverty.
His paintings can now be found in Prague , Budapest , London, Munich and in the collections of the History Museum . The Ostendorfer Gymnasium in Neumarkt is named after Ostendorfer .
literature
- Joseph Rudolf Schuegraf : Life history news about the painter and citizen Michael Ostendorfer in Regensburg, 1850
- Wilhelm Schmidt: Michael Ostendorfer . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 507 f.
- Volkmar Greiselmayer: Michael Ostendorfer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 615 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Geisberg, Max: The German Single-Leaf Woodcut 1550-1550, Vol. III. New York 1974.
- Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700. Vol. XXX = Nickel Ehrlich The Younger To Michael Ostendorfer. (Ed.Dr. Tilman Frank, Compiled By Robert Zijlma). Rosendaal / The Netherlands 1991. [woodcut illustrations]
- Wynen, Arnulf Michael Ostendorfer (around 1492–1559). A Regensburg painter of the Reformation period. Phil. Diss. Freiburg 1961.
- 450 years of the Evangelical Church in Regensburg, exhibition catalog of the Museum of the City of Regensburg 1992/1993, red. Martin Angerer, Regensburg 1992.
- Barbara Oettl: Michael Ostendorfer - A Reformed Catholic in Regensburg, in: Berthold Furtmeyr. Masterpieces of Illumination and Regensburg Art in the Late Gothic and Renaissance periods, exhibition catalog of the Historical Museum Regensburg 2010/2011, ed. by Christoph Wagner and Klemens Unger, Regensburg 2010, pp. 516–525.
- Rosa Micus: The Reformation Altar by Michael Ostendorfer 1554/55, in: Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg 151, 2011, pp. 51–69.
- Susanne Wegmann: The ceremonies of the church as painted words. The altarpiece by Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä. and Michael Ostendorfer in Wittenberg and Regensburg, in: Ritual und Reflexion. Historical amounts for measuring a field of tension, ed. by Dominik Fugger, Benedikt Kranemann, Jenny Lagaude, Darmstadt 2015, pp. 55–70.
- Michael Ostendorfer and the Reformation in Regensburg, volume accompanying the exhibition in the Historical Museum 2017, ed. by Christoph Wagner, will be published in Regensburg 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 170 f .
Web links
- Works by Michael Ostendorfer at Zeno.org .
- Information offered by the Ostendorfer-Gymnasium Neumarkt zu Ostendorfer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ostendorfer, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ostendorffer, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1490 or 1494 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hemau or Ostendorf or Osterdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1559 |
| Place of death | regensburg |