RIEMENSCHNEIDER, TILMAN


Meaning of RIEMENSCHNEIDER, TILMAN in English

born 0441; 1460, Heilgenstadt or Osterode, Domain of the Teutonic Order

died July 7, 1531, Würzburg

German sculptor.

Son of a mint master, he settled in Würzburg in 1483 and opened a highly successful workshop. He was a city councillor (1504–20) and burgomaster (1520–25), but his sympathies with the revolutionaries in the Peasants' War led to a brief imprisonment. His wood and stone sculpture, characterized by sharply folded, flowing drapery, included monumental tombs and altarpieces as well as independent statues and reliefs, and made him one of the major masters of late Gothic art in Germany.

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