Peter Boeckel

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Peter Boeckel , also: Bökel , Bockel , Beekel (* around 1530 in Antwerp , † June 13, 1599 in Wismar ) was a Flemish painter and cartographer who worked in Germany .

Life

Peter Boeckel came from a family of artists in Antwerp and was a son of the painter Cornelius Boeckel. The Lutheran family is said to have left Antwerp for religious reasons and settled in Hamburg . He worked as a portraitist as well as a decorator and also worked as a cartographer. In 1559 he created a monumental map of Dithmarschen as a woodcut from nine printing blocks measuring 108 cm × 74 cm, the original of which has only been preserved in one copy in the Austrian National Library .

From 1561 until shortly before his death he was in the service of the Mecklenburg dukes. In 1561 he was court painter in Schwerin with Duke Johann Albrecht I and after his death in 1576 with his brother Duke Ulrich III. Most recently he worked as a private painter in Wismar, where he had bought a house on Krämerstrasse in 1567 and built a windmill in 1580. From 1584 he was head of the Marienkirche in Wismar .

His son Martin Boeckel († 1641) became a surveyor and office secretary at the court in Schwerin, his grandson Martin von Böckel was a lawyer and diplomat, including syndicus in Lübeck and chancellor in Wolfenbüttel .

Works

Renaissance altar in the castle church, gilded by Boeckel, now in the State Museum
  • In 1561 Boeckel painted the Schwerin palace chapel and gilded the Renaissance reredos , which are now in the State Museum .
  • 1582 painting of the Seigerhaus by St. Marien Wismar
  • 1570 organ prospectus of the parish church of Malchin (broken off in 1779)
  • Double portrait of Duke Johann Albrecht I and Duchess Anna Sophie , State Museum Schwerin
  • Double portrait of Duke Ulrich III. with his wife Anna, State Museum Schwerin
  • 1574: Portraits of the ancestral gallery in Schwerin Castle : Johann Abrecht I, Anna Sophie (attributed to)
  • Title woodcut of the Mecklenburg Shepherd Order (1578)
  • Pure versions of the card by Tilemann Stella
  • State border against Pomerania near Ribnitz, Damgarten and Freudenberg (around 1570), Schwerin State Main Archive

  • Johann Abrecht I.

  • Anna Sophie

  • Johann Albrecht I and Anna Sophie

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter van Boeckel (I)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ low-resolution image file , catalog entry
  2. ↑ Erika Borchardt , Jürgen Borchardt : Mecklenburgs dukes. Ancestral gallery at Schwerin Castle. Demmler, Schwerin 1991, ISBN 3-910150-07-1 , pp. 48-52
  3. ↑ Lothar Zögner, Egon Klemp, Gudrun Maurer (eds.): Directory of map collections in Germany. 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz 1998 ISBN 978-3-447-03966-6 , p. 478
personal data
SURNAME Boeckel, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bökel, Peter; Bockel, Peter; Beekel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1599
Place of death Wismar