Thoman Burgkmair

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Thoman (Thomas) Burgkmair (* around 1444 in Augsburg ; † 1523 ibid) was a painter of the late Middle Ages in Augsburg. He was listed there as a painter in the guild books of the Augsburg painters' guild . He is the father of Hans Burgkmair the elder .

Thoman Burgkmair is assigned a few pictures at the end of the Gothic and beginning of the Renaissance , some of which are often cited as sources for understanding this epoch in Augsburg or beyond.

Significance for Augsburg painting and its painters' guild

Thomas Burgkmair: Christ carrying the cross

After his marriage to the daughter of an Augsburg sculptor in 1469, Thoman Burgkmair became a member of the Augsburg painters' guild, which also included the carvers, glaziers and goldsmiths. It was probably he who “wrote beautifully” the first Augsburg painter's book and who recorded the names of the artists who lived in the city around 1470. The book is in the Augsburg city archive today.

Thomas Burgkmair is considered by some art historians, together with the master of the Ilsung Madonna and the master of 1477, to be one of the most important and formative painters of the Augsburg late Gothic period. Even if others only recognize Thomas Burgkmair as an “average artist” in comparison to his son Hans, his influence and his respected role in the Augsburg painters' guild is generally recognized.

Father of Hans Burgkmair

Thoman Burgkmair is the father of Hans Burgkmair the Elder (* 1473), who also worked as a painter, draftsman and wood cutter in Augsburg at the beginning of the 16th century and is known as the most important Augsburg artist between the late Gothic and Renaissance periods. Hans was probably first as an apprentice to his father.

Works (selection of the attributed paintings)

Like almost all other artists of his era, Thoman Burgkmair did not sign his works. An attribution is therefore difficult and sometimes controversial. Above all, his portraits are a visible source of understanding his era in Augsburg or the conditions in the Fugger family.

  • Religious paintings
    • The Gregory Mass . Inv no. German Historical Museum (DHM) Gm 93/77 [1]
    • Dominican legend: The burial of St. Dominic in the monastery church of Bologna [2]
    • Maria Magdalena appears before Bishop Maximin
  • Portraits
    • Portrait of the preacher Johannes Capistran . National Gallery Prague [3]
    • Emperor Friedrich III. (1415-1493) , painting on spruce wood, (lost, was probably the model for the picture by Hans Burgkmair the Elder (1473-1531))
    • Empress Leonora Augusta of Portugal [4]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ G. von Pölnitz: Jakob Fugger, Volume 2 . Mohr Siebeck, 1951, p. 82
  2. ↑ K. Stolleis: The clothes of Maria Jakobäa Fugger (1562 - 1588) . In: M.Flury-Lemberg, K. Stolleis: Documenta textilia: Festschrift for Sigrid Müller-Christensen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1981, pp. 357-370
  3. ↑ cf. z. BH Schulze: Little German history: With pictures from the German historical museum . CH Beck, 2007 p. 29
  4. ↑ cf. E. Buchner: The Augsburg panel painting of the late Gothic. Contributions to the history of German art II, Augsburg art of the late Gothic and Renaissance . Munich 1928
  5. ↑ E. Buchner: The Master of the Ilsung Madonna . In: Meeting reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, born 1955, no. 6
  6. ^ Burgkmair, Hans . In: Stadtarchiv Augsburg, G. Grünsteudel et al. (Ed.): Augsburger Stadtlexikonn Ohline - Important Augsburg personalities . Wißner-Verlag GmbH, accessed online February 2010
  7. ↑ Hans Burgkmair . In: GK Nagler: New general artist lexicon: or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, etc., Volume 2 . EA Fleischmann, 1835
  8. ↑ Article Burgkmair, Hans the Elder by A.Woltmann. In: Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Volume 3 (1876), pp. 576-578, digital full-text edition in Wikisource
  9. ↑ cf. z. BC Langer, German Historical Museum (ed.), H. Dormeier (picture texts): Festivals and customs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance: the Augsburg monthly pictures . Wissenmedia Verlag, 2007
  10. ↑ cf. z. BM Schad: The women of the house of Fugger von der Lilie (15th - 17th centuries) . Mohr Siebeck, 1989
  11. ↑ H. Schulze: Small German history: With pictures from the German historical museum . CHBeck, 2007 p. 29 (picture description of the Gregorsmesse and assignment to Thomas Burgkmaier)
  12. ^ Dorotheum: Auction June 10, 1997, Lot 51
  13. ^ Nagel Auctions, auction May 26, 1993, lot 2635
  14. ↑ `` Saint John Kapistran ''. In: H. Kühnel, H. Egger, G. Winkler (eds.): 800 years of Franz von Assisi. Franciscan Art and Culture of the Middle Ages. Catalog of the Lower Austrian State Exhibition in Krems-Stein, Minoritenkirche, from May 15 to October 17, 1982 . Catalog of the Lower Austrian State Museum. NF 122. - Vienna: Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government, Cultural Department 1982. XXVIII, 775. Object no .: 10.63, p. 589
  15. ^ Neumeister Art Auctions: Auction September 18, 1991, Auction 263 Lot 39

literature

  • A. Stange: German Gothic painting. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1934 - 1961 (Burgmayr, Thoman p. 48–51)
  • B. Bushart: Studies on old Swabian painting: additions u. Corrections to A. Stanges "German Gothic Painting Bd. 8" . In: ZfKG 22 Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 1959, pp. 143–147
  • P. Wescher: To the portraits of Hans and Thomas Burgkmair . In: Pantheon, 16.1935, pp. 392-397

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personal data
SURNAME Burgkmair, Thoman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgkmair, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH around 1444
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 1523
Place of death augsburg