Philipp Uffenbach
Philipp Uffenbach (born January 15, 1566 in Frankfurt am Main ; † (buried) April 6, 1636 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German painter , draftsman , watercolorist , etcher and engraver , succeeding Matthias Grünewald and Albrecht Dürer .
life and work
Philipp Uffenbach, whose name also appears in a document with the spelling Offenbach or Ofenbach , was the son of the form cutter Heinrich Uffenbach. He went to the Mainz painter Adam Grimmer as an artist. This was probably the son of Johann Grimmer , the only student of Matthias Grünewald known by name. Perhaps this explains why Uffenbach came into possession of a portfolio with drawings from Grünewald's hand (source: notes by contemporary Joachim von Sandrart ). In any case, his later work was strongly influenced by the art of Grünewald and Albrecht Dürer.
Philipp Uffenbach received Frankfurt citizenship in 1598 after he married and took over the painting workshop of his father-in-law in Frankfurt in 1592. Only a few paintings and engravings based on his drawings have survived from Uffenbach's artistic work. B. The oil painting "Adoration of the Kings" (1587) owned by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar . His main work is a Ascension of Christ from 1599, which he painted for the Dominican Church in Frankfurt am Main. Preserved fragments are in the Historical Museum of the City of Frankfurt am Main. It is known that he carried out artistic, but also rather manual work such as painting dials on behalf of the city council. Such works also included, in addition to a representation of the freedom of the bridge on the tower of the Old Bridge (1610), that he painted the first fountain figure of Justitia for the fountain of justice on the Römerberg in bright colors. In 1887 this sandstone figure was replaced by the current bronze figure. For the Landgrave Philip III. von Hessen-Butzbach he created a ceiling painting in the Great Hall of Butzbach Castle .
Incidentally, in addition to mechanics , geometry and anatomy , Uffenbach , like some of his contemporaries, dealt with alchemical experiments. In 1598 his book Report and Explanation of two attached pieces of copper, or time indicator of the suns over the whole world with a vertical sundial and a gnomonic world map was published . The book entitled De quadratura circuli mechanici , published in 1619, dealt with the squaring of the circle .
It has not been proven whether Uffenbach himself took part in the so-called fat milk uprising , as has occasionally been claimed . There is only one Fettmilch portrait of Uffenbach (in the Frankfurt Historical Museum ).
However, Uffenbach's name became known above all because he was the teacher of the important German painter Adam Elsheimer (1578-1619).
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .
- E.g .: Uffenbach, Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 134 f.
- Reinhard Folk: Uffenbach's "Zeitweiser" published 1598 in The Compendium , Journal of the North American Sundial Society, Vol. 21 Num. 3 Pag. 4 September 2014 ISSN 1074-3197
- Ursula Opitz: Philipp Uffenbach A Frankfurt painter around 1600 Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin Munich 2015, ISBN 3-422-07241-1 ; 312 pages.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Uffenbach, Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized January 15, 1566 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | buried April 6, 1636 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |