Weimar Heinemann

Weimar Heinemann († July 11, 1598 in Braunschweig ; also Wimer, Wauer ) was a German stonemason and sculptor of the Renaissance in Braunschweig.

Life

Little is known about Heinemann's life; in 1581 he became a citizen of the new town . He complained about the sculptor Jürgen Röttger from Braunschweig, because he had spun off an apprentice from him. We also know that the sculptor Franz Julius Döteber was a pupil of Heinemann before he entered Ebert Wolf's workshop in Hildesheim . Heinemann probably died of the plague .

It is also known that his widow continued the workshop and had an illegitimate daughter with a journeyman from the workshop who was born on June 22, 1602. After the marriage, she and her new husband moved to Lüneburg on October 29, 1602 .

plant

In 1586 Heinemann worked on the tomb of Armgard von Bortfeld in the Katharinenkirche , which is considered his most remarkable work. Furthermore, Paul Jonas Meier suspects, based on stylistic features of the tomb of Armgard von Bortfeld, that the designed cellar entrance in the Gewandhaus could come from him. It is also believed that he made the tombstone of Heinrich von Veltheim († June 16, 1577) and his wife Elisabeth in Destedts church . For the tomb of Abbot Johannes Lorbeer († 1586) in Riddagshausen there is an invoice of 57 marks and 12 groschen. Both works were in such bad condition as early as 1936 that no statements could be made about the quality of his works, which he signed with HW.

The pulpit in the Katharinenkirche from the years 1583/84 is no longer preserved, an invoice from Heinemann for 24 marks is documented for this.

literature

• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries. S. 313, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 .
• Paul Jonas Meier : The sculptor's handicrafts in the city of Braunschweig since the Reformation. In: Workpieces from the museum, archive and library of the City of Braunschweig VIII. Appelhans, Braunschweig 1936.