Rutger van Kampen

Rutger van Kampen (also: Rutger van Keulen / Cologne; † after 1391) was a late Gothic builder.

Rutger van Kampen was a son of Michael of Savoy, who is documented as master builder of Cologne from 1353 to 1390 . In 1361 he received the citizenship of Kampen (Netherlands) as Rotgher Micheelszoon van Colen , in 1369 he was employed as the builder of the local Nikolaikirche and the Liebfrauenkirche. During the winter of 1372/73, Rutger apparently stayed as a simple stonemason under Peter Parler in the Prague cathedral building hut for further training purposes, where in the following year 1373/74 his brother Johannes can also be proven to be a stonemason building the cathedral. His second brother, Michael von Köln, stayed there until 1384 and married a daughter of Peter Parler. In 1391 Rutger was also commissioned to expand St. Peter's Church in Leiden . In his work, design tendencies of the Cologne high Gothic unite with the parallel late Gothic in Prague.

literature

• Leonhard Helten : Cathedrals for citizens. The St. Nicholas Church in Kampen and the change in the architectural models of urban representation in the 14th century. Amsterdam 1994, pp. 17-62 ISBN 90-71570-43-6 .