Wendel Dietterlin

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Wendel Dietterlin, etching from the year of his death in 1599 after a self-portrait

Wendel Dietterlin (* around 1550 or 1551 in Pfullendorf ; † 1599 in Strasbourg ) was a painter and the most important German building theorist of the late Mannerism and early Baroque . His main focus was on ceiling and wall paintings. However, nothing of his works from these genres has survived, only a single painting and his illustrated treatise “Architectura”.

Life

Dietterlin was born in Pfullendorf in Upper Swabia, the son of a painter. Kurt Martin suspects that he had his son trained as an artist in Constance . After completing his years of travel , Dietterlin settled in Strasbourg, where he married in 1570 and acquired citizenship in 1571. As a master he belonged to the local guild of artists, decorators and painters. Dietterlin worked as a painter of frescoes and decorator of facades, walls and ceilings. He carried out several works on urban buildings, for example he created frescoes for the Bruderhof and also worked on the “New Building” in Strasbourg. In 1590 he accepted an invitation to Stuttgart to make ceiling and wall paintings in the pleasure house of the Duke of Württemberg in Stuttgart. Dietterlin died in 1599 after a long illness; his son of the same name worked as a goldsmith.

"Resurrection of Lazarus", Wendel Dietterlin 1587. The person on the right below the center of the picture who grabs the lowered grave slab with his hand is likely to be a self-portrait of Dietterlin

Wendel Dietterlin's treatise Architectvra. From the distribution, symmetry and proportion of the five columns, and all related art work, from windows, camines ... (Nuremberg 1598) exerted a lasting influence on German architecture and decoration. This work is in the tradition of the sample book , so largely dispenses with a commentary and theoretical classification of the numerous illustrations. However, the many engravings for gates, windows, chimneys etc. can be found in a gradation given by the five column orders, with each column order being assigned a "sphere of being". The Tuscan order stands for the rural / rustic, the Doric for the soldier, etc.

In addition, as far as can be seen, only one painting with the raising of Lazarus from him is preserved, which is located in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe .

Works

  • Architectura. From the symmetry of distribution and the proportion of the five columns, and all art work resulting from it, from windows, camines, courts of justice, portals, fountains and epitaphs. How the same from every kind of the five poultry ground must be torn open, prepared, and brought to the factory. For all such art lovers, invented a steady and moving teaching, brought in two hundred pieces, set and given: by Wendel Dietterlin, painter in Strasbourg. Cum gratia et privilegio caes. Mayest. Ad decennium. Printed in Nuremberg 1598. ( Wendel Dietterlin: Architectvra ..., Nuremberg 1598, digital facsimile of the Heidelberg University Library )
    • Architectura. Reprographic reprint of the Nuremberg 1598 edition from the Darmstadt State and University Library. With an introduction by Hans Gerhard Evers . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1965. (Reprint of the introduction in: Hans Gerhard Evers, "Schriften", Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, 1975)

literature

  • Kurt Martin : The painter Wendel Dietterlin. In: Karl Schwingel (Ed.): Festschrift for Karl Lohmeyer. West-Ost-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1954, pp. 14-29.
  • Kurt Martin:  Dietterlin, Wendel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 702 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Adolf K. Placzek : Introduction to the Dover Edition. In: Wendel Dietterlin: The Fantastic Engravings of Wendel Dietterlin. Dover Publications, New York 1968.
  • John Summerson : The Classical Language of Architecture. University Paperbacks. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1966.

Web links

Commons : Wendel Dietterlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Martin: The painter Wendel Dietterlin. In: Karl Schwingel (Ed.): Festschrift for Karl Lohmeyer. West-Ost-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1954, p. 14-29, here p. 22 f.
  2. ^ Kurt Martin: The painter Wendel Dietterlin. In: Karl Schwingel (Ed.): Festschrift for Karl Lohmeyer. West-Ost-Verlag, Saarbrücken 1954, pp. 14–29, here p. 19.
personal data
SURNAME Dietterlin, Wendel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, master builder and architect
DATE OF BIRTH around 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfullendorf
DATE OF DEATH 1599
Place of death Strasbourg