Kaspar Memberger the Elder (um/c 1555 - 1618?)

Kaspar (Johann) Memberger was the son of the painter Phillip Memberger the Elder (ca 1510–1573), who taught him and his two brothers. Shortly after his accession as Prince-Archbishop, Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau (1559–1617) brought Memberger to Salzburg. Archival sources from 1596 onwards yield information about the court painter, whose works include the 5-part “Noah’s Ark” series in the style of Jacopo Bassano (between 1510/1518–1592) and the Bearing of the Cross, from the old Cathedral – now in St. Peter’s. Further surviving works in Salzburg are the epitaph tondino in the Dommuseum and the portrait of Wolf Dietrich in the Salzburg Museum. As models for his compositions, Memberger used prints, including some by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). He returned to Constance in 1598, worked in Schloss Langenstein for Jakob Hannibal von Raitenau (1563–1611), Wolf Dietrich’s brother, and received further commissions from the region. His last known work dates from 1616.

Author: Ducke Astrid

Literature: DUCKE Astrid, HABERSATTER Thomas, OEHRING Erika: Masterworks. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2015, S. 104