Simon Stappen
Simon Stappen was a German wood sculptor who worked in Braunschweig from 1517 .
Life
The name Stappen is known from a file of the Imperial Court in Regensburg from 1532. This file documents that Duke Heinrich d. J. gave the delicate order to make a wooden portrait head of the Duke's lover, Eva von Trott , for a mock funeral.
In another personally signed letter from Duke Heinrich d. J. von 1537 reproaches him for not having made a car in time that the painter Peter Spitzer (around 1510 - after 1578) was supposed to paint. In this letter the Duke mentions the full name with Simon Stappen. No further information is known about Stappen's life.
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Stappen can be proven that he worked as a sculptor from 1517 and that he worked for Duke II. J. from 1532 to 1537. His most important work is the Huneborstelsche house in Braunschweig, but also the built in Celle half-timbered house on behalf of Duke Henry the official bailiff Simon Hoppener of 1532 and 1534 are attributed to him, as well as the so-called breast cloth of Half-timbered building by the Goslar master's degree and city counsel Johann Tilling ; the Eulenspiegelhaus in Osterwieck dates from 1532.
His earliest works in Braunschweig were at Augustraße 33, Reichsstraße 8 (1517) and Hagenbrücke 12 (1523). On these houses there was the tendril bar typical of Stappen with Gothic foliage , which he attached to the sill beam with the year or other lettering. Only later did Stappen abandon the tendril as a stylistic device.
In 1526 the house of the "Schwarzen Bock", which he designed, was demolished and the cleats, which showed the figures of the saints in a depressed position, were built into the old scales . Based on stylistic features, Paul Jonas Meier assigned the houses at Neue Straße 9 and Schöppenstedter Straße 31, Ölschlägern 40 (1530), Stobenstraße 17, Steinweg 8 and Wendenstraße 39 (1533) in Braunschweig to Stappen. A carved chest with the family coat of arms of Braunschweig Mayor Ludolf Bode and his wife Ilse Damman is also one of his works.
Due to the large number of works, it is assumed that he could not have created them alone. The extent to which Stappen ran a workshop has not been researched. Stappen is one of the most important wood sculptors in the Braunschweig region of that time.
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries. Appelhans, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 671.
- PJ Meier : The sculptor's handicrafts in the city of Braunschweig since the Reformation. Appelhans, Braunschweig 1936 ( work pieces from the museum, archive and library of the city of Braunschweig 8).
- Karl Steinacker : Goslar's wood construction art. Causes of their flowering and decay. J. Jäger & Sohn, Goslar 1899 (Heidelberg, Univ., Diss.).
Individual evidence
- ↑ P. J. Meier: Das Kunsthandwerk, p. 10 (see literature)
- ↑ P. J. Meier: Das Kunsthandwerk, p. 9 (see literature)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stappen, Simon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Piling up |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th Century |