Niklaus Weckmann
Illustration — The Taking of Christ (c. 1520), workshop of Niklaus Weckmann, in the Landesmuseum Württemberg Niklaus Weckmann (active c. 1481–1526, Ulm) was a German sculptor.
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Niklaus Weckmann
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- Died
- 1526 · Ulm.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- sculptor · wood carver
- Fields
- art of sculpture · wood carving
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — The Taking of Christ (c. 1520), workshop of Niklaus Weckmann, in the Landesmuseum Württemberg Niklaus Weckmann (active c. 1481–1526, Ulm) was a German sculptor.
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Born at Ulm in 1450, died in Ulm in 1526.
The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture and wood carving. Places of work recorded in the authority are Ulm. Work by Niklaus Weckmann is recorded in the collections of Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Augustiner Museum, GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig and Landesmuseum Württemberg.
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1450
Niklaus Weckmann was born in 1450 at Ulm.
1526
Niklaus Weckmann died in 1526 at Ulm.
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- 1.Gertrud Otto: Die Ulmer Plastik der Spätgotik (= Tübinger Forschungen zur Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte. Band 7). Reutlingen 1927.
- 2.Wolfgang Deutsch: Jörg Syrlin der Jüngere und der Bildhauer Niklaus Weckmann. Schwäbisch Hall 1966 (maschinenschriftlich); ders.: Jörg Syrlin der Jüngere und der Bildhauer Niklaus Weckmann. In: Zeitschrift für württembergische Landesgeschichte. Band 27, 1968, S. 39–82.
- 3.Gerhard Weiland (Red.): Meisterwerke massenhaft. Die Bildhauerwerkstatt des Niklaus Weckmann und die Malerei in Ulm um 1500. Ausstellungskatalog. Stuttgart 1993, insb. S. 7 ff. und 19 ff.
- 4.Barbara Maier-Lörcher: Meisterwerke Ulmer Kunst. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-8004-2, S. 104–105.
- 5.Gerald Jasbar (Bearb.): Bildhauerei und Malerei vom 13. Jahrhundert bis 1600 (= Kataloge des Ulmer Museums. Band 1). Ulm 1981, S. 176.
- 6.Barbara Maier-Lörcher: Meisterwerke Ulmer Kunst. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-8004-2, S. 34–35.
- 7.Barbara Maier-Lörcher: Meisterwerke Ulmer Kunst. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-8004-2, S. 56–57.
- 8.Barbara Maier-Lörcher: Meisterwerke Ulmer Kunst. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-8004-2, S. 124–125.
- 9.Barbara Maier-Lörcher: Meisterwerke Ulmer Kunst. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-8004-2, S. 50–51.
- 10.Barbara Maier-Lörcher: Meisterwerke Ulmer Kunst. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-8004-2, S. 136–137.
- 11.Holy Family. The Collection.
- 12.Wolfgang Urban. Einer Kathedrale würdig. Das Meisterwerk des Bingener Altars. 2018. 978-3-95976-111-6.
- 13.Gerald Jasbar (Bearb.): Bildhauerei und Malerei vom 13. Jahrhundert bis 1600 (= Kataloge des Ulmer Museums. Band 1). Ulm 1981, S. 177.
- 14.Spurensuche im Museum. suedkurier.de. 2006-12-20.
- 15.Gerald Jasbar (Bearb.): Bildhauerei und Malerei vom 13. Jahrhundert bis 1600 (= Kataloge des Ulmer Museums. Band 1). Ulm 1981, S. 178–179.
- 16.Barbara Maier-Lörcher: Meisterwerke Ulmer Kunst. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-8004-2, S. 66–67.
- 17.Barbara Maier-Lörcher: Meisterwerke Ulmer Kunst. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 3-7995-8004-2, S. 72–73.
- 18.Flügelretabel aus der Pfarrkirche St. Cyriacus und Pankratius in Talheim. museum-digital,baden-württemberg.
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