Wolf Eisenmann

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Partial view of the Weissenburg denomination image

Wolf Eisenmann (* in Nuremberg ; † February 18, 1616 in Würzburg ) was a German painter of the 16th century who worked in Nuremberg, Ansbach and Würzburg.

Around 1600 he ran a workshop in Nuremberg and went to Ansbach in 1602, from 1610 he is recorded in Würzberg. The only picture he has preserved is the denomination picture donated by January 18, 1606 in the town church of St. Andreas in Weißenburg . In 1614 he received 48 guilders for an altar with four panels with pictures from the life of St. Kilian, who was placed behind the high altar of the Würzburg Cathedral .

Valentin Herneisen , the son of Andreas Herneisen , studied with Eisenmann from 1610 to 1614.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gertrud Schiller : Iconography of Christian Art. Volume 4, Gütersloh 1976, Fig. 400; Bruno Langer: Evangelical painting epitaphs in Franconia. A contribution to the religious image in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Würzburg 2007, p. 43.
  2. Messages from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. 1900. p. 26.