Wilhelm Ziegler (painter)

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Rothenburg patrician festival (1538)

Wilhelm Ziegler (* approx. 1480 in Creglingen ; † approx. 1543 in Würzburg ) was a German painter and cartographer .

Life

Ziegler was apprenticed to Hans Burgkmair the Elder in Augsburg until 1502. In 1507 he received citizenship in Rothenburg ob der Tauber . There he worked and completed the altars in St. Wolfgang's Church in 1514 , and paintings for the winged altar in Tauberscheckenbach were also by him.

In 1522 he moved across the Lake Constance region to Freiburg in Üechtland , Switzerland , where he replaced Hans Boden as town painter in 1526 and was granted citizenship. In 1542 he was followed by Hans Schäufelin the Younger from Nördlingen .

In 1531 he returned to Rothenburg and was given citizenship there again. He brought a wife with him, whom he sent back to her homeland. She complained against it, however, and Ziegler was imprisoned until he promised to take her back.

In 1534 he was accepted into the Würzburg Guild of St. Luke . But he still works in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

He is said to have had a son named Jörg.

Famous works

  • 1514 the altars in the Sankt Wolfgangskirche
  • 1522 Annunciation , panel from the outside of the wing of the high altar of the monastery church in Hauterive, Canton of Friborg
  • 1523 Adoration of the Shepherds , wing outside of the altar of the Annenkapelle of the Johanniterkomturei Freiburg
  • 1524 Saint Barbara , outside wing of the parish church of Ependes, Canton of Friborg
  • 1537 map of the Rothenburger Landhege
  • 1538 Rothenburg patrician festival

literature

  • The Upper German Imperial Cities and their cults of saints , p. 48f, ISBN 978-3-8233-6192-3 , online at Google Books
  • Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon , Carl Brun, 1905, Schweizerischer Kunstverein, [2] . The complete book text: [3]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A panel by Wilhelm Ziegler in the Upper Austrian State Museum: [1] .
  2. ^ SIKART lexicon on art in Switzerland: Ziegler, Wilhelm (painter) .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziegler, Wilhalm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1480
PLACE OF BIRTH Creglingen
DATE OF DEATH 1543
Place of death Wurzburg