Paul Lautensack

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Lautensack at the age of 74 (1552, etching by Hanns Lautensacks)

Paul Lautensack (* 1478 in Bamberg ; † August 15, 1558 in Nuremberg ) was a German painter.

Life

Lautensack was the organist and caretaker at the Upper Parish (Church of Our Lady) and as such acquired the property at Unterer Kaulberg 1 in Bamberg in 1503. Since 1506 he was a painter for Prince-Bishop Georg III. Erbschenk von Limburg and created a series of depictions of saints for the pilgrimage church in Grimmenthal in Thuringia. Because of his Christian reformist ideas, he moved to Nuremberg, where he acquired citizenship. Because of his theological speculations, he appeared to the city council of Nuremberg as a fanatic and sectarian and was expelled from the city in 1542. In 1545 he returned and lived in seclusion until his death.

Paul Lautensack was probably married three times, namely to Barbara Graf, Magdalena Ringmacher and Anna Gerstner. A portrait engraved by his son Hanns Lautensack in 1552 shows him as a 74-year-old man. Descendants were Hanns and Heinrich Lautensack .

Left behind

Creation of Eve

Ten pictures by Lautensack are in the painting collection of the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. They came from an altarpiece from 1511, which Martin Josef von Reider had designed after the secularization . The panels show, among other things, the "creation of Eve". Lautensack designed his own works on the basis of Albrecht Dürer's compositions (for example the depiction of “Joachim and Anna under the golden gate”, “Christ's farewell to Mary”, “Annunciation to St. Anne”, or “Christ carrying the cross "). Copper engravings by Martin Schongauer also served as models. Lautensack's pictures often show inaccuracies in perspective. The landscape and the design of plants or architectural details, on the other hand, show, according to Franz Friedrich Leitschuh , a “ability that goes beyond mediocrity”. Further works can be found in the Germanic National Museum , including some manuscripts.

A picture booklet appears in Nuremberg , possibly the revelation of Jesus Christ published in 1619 .

His handwritten theological writings are in the libraries of Bamberg, Berlin and London .

literature

  • Joseph Eduard Wessely :  Lautensack . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 72 f.
  • Paul Lautensack . In: Franz Friedrich Leitschuh (Hrsg.): Studies and sources on the German art history of the XV – XVI centuries (=  Collectanea Friburgensia . New series, fasc. 14, the whole series 23). Commission publisher of the university bookstore (O. Gschwend), Freiburg 1912, p. 57–62 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Contents: Lautensack, the “enthusiast and sacramenter”. His pictures in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. The Apocalypse of St. John. Lautensack's 'opus mirabile'. Letters to him from Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon Lautensack in Nuremberg. The entries relating to Paul Lautensack in the Bamberg chamber accounts).
  • Lautensack, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 463-464 .
  • Hans Paschke: Under our dear women parish in Bamberg. P. 56 ff.
  • Norbert Haas: Register of names for the publications of Hans Paschke.
  • Alexa von Aufsess: The altar workshop of Paul Lautensack with special consideration of its connection to the workshop of the Paulkauer Altar (=  studies on German art history . Volume 336 ). Heitz, Baden-Baden 1963.
  • Annette Faber: From Bamberg to Grimmenthal: Works by Paul Lautensack in Thuringia . In: From: Yearbook of the Hennebergisch-Franconian History Association . tape 23 . Veßra Monastery 2008, p. 141-167 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Lautensack  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Lautensack . In: Franz Friedrich Leitschuh (Hrsg.): Studies and sources on the German art history of the XV – XVI centuries (=  Collectanea Friburgensia . New series, fasc. 14, the whole series 23). Commission publisher of the university bookstore (O. Gschwend), Freiburg 1912, p. 57-62 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Lotte Kurras: HS 3147 Paul Lautensack . In: The manuscripts of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg . tape 3 . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1974, ISBN 3-447-02305-8 , p. 59 , illustration on p. 61 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
personal data
SURNAME Lautensack, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1478
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1558
Place of death Nuremberg