Veit Kels

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Veit Kels ( Vitus Keltz ) (* around 1513/14 in Kaufbeuren , † around 1595 in Augsburg ) was a German carver, medalist and goldsmith.

Life

Veit Kels was born in Kaufbeuren as the second son of the artist Hans Kels the Elder and his wife Anna, née Müller. After training in his father's workshop, his creative period began around 1536. On February 23, 1546, he applied to the Kaufbeurer “Stadt-Canzley” for a birth certificate to be issued. This step is likely to be related to his planned move to Augsburg, where his brother Hans Kels the Younger was already working as a master craftsman. On March 15, 1546, Veit Kels also acquired the master's degree there in the guild of Augsburg painters, glaziers, picture carvers and Goldschlager. He was married to Anna Katharina Schißler. After the death of his brother (around 1565), Veit Kels took care of his underage children.

Works

Dial depicting seven planetary deities, 1547
  • Three Emperor Medal, 1536, Treasury of the Teutonic Order , Vienna.
  • Three emperor medal ("Bernhart 43"), 1536, Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna.
  • Board game and pieces for the “Long Pouf”, 1537. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The board game, probably created by Veit Kels together with his father Hans Kels the elder and brother Hans Kels the younger in oak, nut, rosewood, mahogany and rosewood for Ferdinand I , but only signed with "Hans Kels zu Kaufbeuren", is considered the main work the artist family Kels. The interaction of the three carvers in this work, which appears to be extremely homogeneous in terms of style and craftsmanship, makes it difficult to differentiate between the three artists even in advanced creative phases and suggests the idea of ​​a "Hans Kels brand" with an in-house system of consistent division of labor and mutual quality control.
  • Four reliefs with scenes from the history of Samson, around 1570, Maximilianmuseum Augsburg.
  • Ornate box model for a dial with the deities of the seven planets, 1547, includes the images of Apollo, Diana, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn, between these candelabra-like stands with their emblems and at their feet the twelve signs of the zodiac, model for the casting of a clock face, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe , Hamburg.

literature

  • Max Bernhart: Medals and Plaques . Schmidt, Berlin 1920, pp. 46, 264. ( digitized version ).
  • Justus Brinckmann: Guide through the Hamburg Museum of Art and Industry . Verlag des Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1894. p. 716. ( digitized version )
  • Georg Habich: Kels. In: The German medalists of the XVI. Century . Halle ad Saale, S. Riechmann 1916, pp. 60–61 ( digitized version )
  • Theodor Hampe: Allgäu studies on art and culture of the Renaissance. - II. On the genealogy of the Kels family of artists . In: Festschrift for Gustav von Bezold. Messages from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Nuremberg 1918/1919, pp. 42–49. ( Digitized version ).
  • Ulrich Kirstein: Kels . In: Stadtlexikon Augsburg, Wißner-Verlag. ( Online dictionary ).
  • Fritz Schmitt: Hans Kels dead four hundred years . In: Kaufbeurer history sheets . Volume 3. Kaufbeuren 1959/61, pp. 1-3.
  • Robert Vischer: Studies on Art History . Bonz, Stuttgart 1886. p. 528 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ulrich Kristein: Kels. Sculptors and medalists. In: Stadtlexikon Augsburg. Wißner-Verlag, accessed on August 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Schmitt: Kels dead four hundred years . In: Heimatverein Kaufbeuren e. V. (Ed.): Kaufbeurer history sheets . tape 3 , no. 1/2 . Kaufbeuren 1959, p. 1-3 .
  3. ^ A b c d e Theodor Hampe: Allgäuer studies on art and culture of the Renaissance - II. On the genealogy of the Kels family of artists . In: Messages from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum . 1918, ISSN  2509-4068 , p. 42–45 , doi : 10.11588 / mignm.1918.0.29721 ( uni-heidelberg.de [accessed on August 9, 2020]).
  4. ^ Robert Vischer: Studies on art history. 1886, Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Volker Ertel: Medals on Ks. Karl V._2. In: https://www.coingallery.de . Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Medallion with the portraits of Maximilian I, Karl V and Ferdinand I. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien , accessed on August 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Board game for the Long Pouf. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, accessed on August 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Christian Goldecker: Four reliefs with scenes from the history of Samson, Veit Kels, around 1570. In: https://kunsthaben.goldecker.de/ . Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
  9. ^ Justus Brinckmann: Guide through the Hamburg Museum of Art and Industry. Verlag des Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1894, p. 716 , accessed on August 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kels, Veit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keltz, Vitus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German carver, medalist and goldsmith
DATE OF BIRTH between 1513 and 1514
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaufbeuren
DATE OF DEATH around 1595
Place of death augsburg