Nikolaus Hooff

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Former funerary lamp in the foyer of the Mudau town hall, figure presumably by Nikolaus Hooff

Johann Nikolaus Franziskus Hooff (born September 10, 1722 in Mudau , † May 8, 1785 ibid; pictor et statuarius ex Mudaw ) was a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Nikolaus Hooff comes from a long-established Mudau family. He created altars, confessionals and wayside shrines in the eastern Odenwald .

Services

Collaboration on the painting of the Benedictine Abbey Church in Amorbach , which was started in 1745, under the direction of the Augsburg painter Matthäus Günther . In 1746 he received his own painting commission for the high altar of the St. Martin's Chapel in Bürgstadt. For the abbey church in Amorbach he carved the cheeks of the lay benches in the nave with tendrils of flowers. The greatest commission of his life was to decorate four new three-part confessionals made of hard oak with tendrils, shells and scrollwork. For a whole year he worked on it together with an "assistant". In 1803 these confessionals were moved to the Amorbach parish church. After the Seven Years' War, Hooff developed into a peasant painter and painted votive pictures and Stations of the Cross ( Schneeberg (Lower Franconia) , Limbach (Baden) (partly destroyed by the church fire in 2003), Hainstadt (Buchen) , Weilbach (Bavaria) , Breitenbach ( Schluechtern) ). Due to art theft , only a few of his works are still preserved today. In the foyer of the Mudau town hall there is a former death lamp . The Valentine figure contained therein is awarded to Hooff. A wayside shrine that still exists in Mudau is a specialty: Nikolaus Hooff created it on behalf of his grandfather.

Web links

Commons : Nikolaus Hooff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [Journal for Bavarian State History, Volume 52, Issues 1–2, 1989]
  2. ^ Monastery manual from 1769, page 140
  3. ↑ Contributions to the exploration of the Odenwald and its peripheral landscapes, V, Ed. Breuberg-Bund, Winfried Wackerfuß, 1992
personal data
SURNAME Hooff, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hooff, Johann Nikolaus Franziskus; Hoff, Niklaß
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Mudau
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1785
Place of death Mudau