Wolfskeelmeister

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The Wolfskeel Master is a medieval sculptor whose name is unknown and therefore named with an emergency name after one of his main works, the stone tomb of Bishop Otto II von Wolfskeel , which was created around 1348 and is located in the Würzburg Cathedral . The works assigned to him are among the most important works of sculpture of the 14th century in Germany.

Tomb of Prince-Bishop Friedrich von Hohenlohe († 1352), Bamberg Cathedral
Tomb of Bishop Otto II.

Act

Several grave monuments for Würzburg and Bamberg bishops are ascribed to the Wolfskeelmeister as a focus , which also approximately limit the period of his work. The earliest work is the epitaph for the Würzburg bishop Wolfram Wolfskeel von Grumbach († 1333), followed by Otto II. Von Wolfskeel († 1345) and Albrecht II. Von Hohenlohe († 1372). For the Bamberg bishops he made the epitaphs of Friedrich I von Hohenlohe († 1352) and Friedrich II. Von Truhendingen († 1366). Bamberg seems plausible as his place of work , as he is said to have made tombs for abbesses of the Cistercians and their relatives in the diocese of Bamberg . In the Himmelkron monastery , the tombs of the first known abbess Agnes von Weimar-Orlamünde († 1354), Count Otto VI. († 1340) and attributed to another count from the Orlamünde family . In Sonnefeld Monastery it is the tomb of Abbess Anna von Henneberg († around 1363). Further work was carried out in the higher-level Langheim monastery , some of which are no longer preserved today, and in Heilsbronn monastery .

Expert opinions differ with this artist, who can only be identified by his outstanding style. Therefore he is also referred to as the master of the tombstone of Otto II von Wolfskeel and is probably identical to the master of the tomb of Bishop Albert von Hohenlohe . The tombs kept in Bamberg Cathedral under the masters of the Bamberg bishop 's graves are probably also from his hand.

The Wolfskeelmeister depicts the deceased in a surprisingly realistic way and conveys a life full of this-sidedness in their design . The work is very detailed. They give a realistic impression of contemporary clothing and the other objects shown. Some of the figures are shown in a curved posture, the expression of which is supported by elements such as the drapery .

literature

  • Fritz Knapp: Würzburg sculptor of the 14th century . In: Karl Koetschau (Ed.): Repertory for art history . tape 40 . Georg Reimer, Berlin 1917, p. 97–120, here p. 114 ff . ( Text archive - Internet Archive - Masters of the Bamberg bishop's graves).
  • Wolfskeelmeister . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, p. 359 .
  • Tilmann Breuer , HE Paulus u. a .: The Handbook of German Art Monuments: Bavaria I (Franconia). German art publisher. Berlin 1979, p. 910.
  • Helmuth Meißner: Himmelkron. History and stories, names and dates . Himmelkron 1979, p. 33-35 .
  • Karl Sitzmann : artist and craftsman in Eastern Franconia. Kulmbach 1957, pp. 593-596.

Web links

Commons : Wolfskeelmeister  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tomb of Bishop Otto von Wolfskeel at bildindex.de.
  2. ^ Tomb of Bishop Albrecht von Hohenlohe at bildindex.de.
  3. ^ Kurt Gerstenberg : The architectural sculpture in the Marienkapelle zu Würzburg. In: Journal for Art History. 21 volume, issue 2. 1958. pp. 107-122.
personal data
SURNAME Wolfskeelmeister
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of Hohenlohe; Master of the Bamberg bishop's graves; Wolf throat master
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH 14th Century