Willem Ards

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Willem Ards (Aerts, Arnts) was a southern Dutch carver who worked in Brussels (1415/1453) and Leuven . It is possible that he is identical to Guillaume Anns , who is documented that he was commissioned by Philip III in 1441 . should acquire good alabaster in Dijon .

Life

He was first mentioned in a document in 1415 as a member of the Brussels guild of the four-crowned. He is also mentioned in a document in 1453 as a picture carver working in Leuven, a native of Brussels.

Works

Ards created the carvings for the supporting beams in the large room on the ground floor and on the market side in the large hall on the first floor in the town hall of Löwen . They show scenes from the Old Testament . "Stylistically and iconographically there are connections" to the Passion Retable (St. Katharina, Schwäbisch Hall) . This was created in Brussels in 1440/1507.

literature

  • Thieme / Becker II, 1908, BNB I, 1866
  • M. Vögelen: The group altars in Schwäbisch Hall and their relationship to Dutch art , Münchner Jb. Der BK 13: 1923, 121–160.
  • John William Steyaert, Monique Tahon-Vanroose: Late Gothic sculpture: the Burgundian Netherlands . Ludion Press, Antwerp, 1994, p. 22

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Löwen City Hall on the website of the Vlaams Instituut voor het Onroerend Erfgoed (VIOE) (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Günter Meißner (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 5, KG Saur, Munich, Leipzig, 1992, pp. 1-2
personal data
SURNAME Ards, Willem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aerts, Willem; Arnts, Willem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch carver
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century