Wendel Dietrich

Wendel Dietrich (* around 1535 in Augsburg ; † around 1622 ) was a woodcarver from Augsburg in the 16th century.

Life

Elaborately worked coffered ceiling of the cedar hall in the Fugger Castle

Born in Augsburg around 1535, he owned a house in the city in 1561. In 1562 he was tried because he had previously joined the banned Anabaptists . He was only released from city custody after he renounced this doctrine and professed Lutheran doctrine. After 1567 he held honorary posts within the Kistler guild (wood carvers) for years . His reputation grew, the more he large orders from the hand of the Fugger and here particularly Hans Fuggers received. This also recommended him to the Munich Herzogshof.

Dietrich had been producing numerous works of art for Hans Fugger since 1569. It started with doors in the Hans Fuggers townhouse in Augsburg. In 1573 he received the order from Hans to draw up a design for his new palace in Stettenfels near Heilbronn . In 1578 he was commissioned by Marx Fugger , Hans' older brother, to make an altar and choir stalls for Marx's burial chapel in the St. Ulrich and Afra church in Augsburg . In 1582 Dietrich made a wooden corridor from their houses to the Katharinenkloster on behalf of the Fugger brothers. The reason for this was that in 1582 Emperor Rudolf II moved into the Fugger's house on the Augsburg Reichstag . After Dietrich had already carried out orders from the Bavarian ducal house in 1582 and in the following years, he moved entirely to Munich in 1587, since this was where his main area of ​​activity was now emerging.

The cedar wood ceiling and the portals of the cedar hall of Hans Fugger's castle in Kirchheim / Swabia are considered to be Dietrich's main work . From 1580, Dietrich received more and more orders to furnish and design Schloss Kirchheim. In 1582 he was commissioned to produce the ceiling in the castle's ballroom, today's cedar hall. In 1585 the ceiling was hung at its destination.

After Stettenfels Castle burned down in 1594, Hans Fugger again commissioned it to restore the complex.

literature

• Adolf Buff : Wendel Dietrich. Documentary records of his life and activity . In: Journal of the Historical Association for Swabia and Neuburg . tape 15 , 1888, ZDB -ID 958221-6 , p. 89-149 .
• Hyacinth Holland :  Dietrich, Wendel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 692-694.
• Georg Lill: Hans Fugger (1531–1598) and art. A contribution to the history of the late Renaissance in southern Germany (=  studies on the Fugger history . Volume 2 ). Duncker & Humblot, 1908, ISSN  0340-7195 .
• Hans Reuther :  Dietrich, Wendel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 699 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Frank A. Karg: Kirchheim Castle . 2nd, revised edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2001, ISBN 3-931820-76-9 .
• Anne Dreesbach: Wendel (Wendl, Wendelin) Dietrich . In: Jürgen Wurst, Alexander Langheiter (Ed.): Monachia . Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88645-156-9 , p. 115 .