Urban Görtschacher

Last Judgment fresco at the parish church of Sankt Daniel in Gailtal

Last Judgment fresco in the Millstatt parish church

Millstatt World Court (excerpt)

Christophorus at the Kaninger parish church

Christophorus at the Möderndorfer Filialkirche hl. Martin

Christophorus in St. Radegund in Wiesen (Lesachtal)

Urban Görtschacher (* around 1485 in Villach ; † after 1530) was an Austrian painter.

Life

The life dates of one of Carinthia's most important painters in the first quarter of the 16th century are unknown. Urban Görtschacher, who could have had ancestors from Villach, was probably active in the Drau town after years of apprenticeship and traveling from around 1515 to around 1522. But despite his remarkable artistic profile and his interesting contribution to Carinthian art of the Dürer period , his figure remains in the dark. The archives give no information about him. Görtschacher is likely to have remained loyal to the artistic medium of the panel painting throughout his life . The master's painting style does not differ from that of other alpine artists. In Carinthia has at least half a dozen of his works on GothicWinged altars outlasts time. The last known signature dates from 1530.

The Urban-Görtschacher-Straße was named in his honor in Villach.

plant

Urban Görtschacher's connections to Paduan and Venetian painting suggest that he stayed in Italy several times . In the succession of Thomas von Villach , his work stands between late Gothic and early Renaissance .

Works

• Last Judgment fresco in the Millstatt Abbey Church (1518)

• Christophorus fresco on the Church of St. Radegund in Wiesen (1520)
• Paintings on the cross of the poor sinners in Sankt Stefan an der Gail (today repainted)
• Last Judgment fresco at the Church of St. Daniel in Gailtal (1510/15)
• Paintings on the winged altar in the church Pichlern near Himmelberg (from 1519?)
• Christophorus fresco on the Möderndorf church in Gailtal (around 1525)
• Christophorus fresco on the church Kaning near Radenthein (1515)
• Legend of Susan in the Belvedere Vienna (around 1502, panel painting on spruce wood 99 × 132 cm)

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X .
• Margarethe Witternigg: Urban Görtschacher and his position in Carinthia . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1940 ( DNB entry )
• Janez Höfler: Panel painting of the Dürer period in Carinthia 1500–1530. Klagenfurt 1998, p. 134ff.

Web links

Commons : Urban Görtschacher  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Urban Görtschacher on aeiou.
• Works by Urban Görtschacher in: Digitales Belvedere (digital.belvedere.at)