Penig No. 1 / Penik
Results: 14 records
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Deutsche Fotothek Dresden, 2024
Image Source: digital image of a November 1970 B&W photograph [171 979] by Helmut Seifert in the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden [https://www.europeana.eu/eu/item/463/item_OARKXLPB5R3TZ5G5T23BG2NHZFWBWXWX] [accessed 28 September 2024]
Copyright Instructions: Educational Use Permitted
view of font and cover
Scene Description: this elaborate matching font cover appears to be no longer displayed on the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of an image of an undated postcard in AKpool [https://www.akpool.fr/cartes-postales/28197222-carte-postale-penig-in-sachsen-taufstein-der-taufkapelle] [accessed 28 September 2024]
Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD
design element - motifs - scroll - 4
Scene Description: elaborate scrolls set at 90-degree angles on the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Deutsche Fotothek Dresden, 2024
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a November 1970 B&W photograph [171 979] by Helmut Seifert in the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden [https://www.europeana.eu/eu/item/463/item_OARKXLPB5R3TZ5G5T23BG2NHZFWBWXWX] [accessed 28 September 2024]
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inscription
Scene Description: describing the scenes below
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Deutsche Fotothek Dresden, 2024
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a November 1970 B&W photograph [171 979] by Helmut Seifert in the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden [https://www.europeana.eu/eu/item/463/item_OARKXLPB5R3TZ5G5T23BG2NHZFWBWXWX] [accessed 28 September 2024]
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: with some geometrical patterns
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Deutsche Fotothek Dresden, 2024
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a November 1970 B&W photograph [171 979] by Helmut Seifert in the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden [https://www.europeana.eu/eu/item/463/item_OARKXLPB5R3TZ5G5T23BG2NHZFWBWXWX] [accessed 28 September 2024]
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design element - patterns - geometric
Scene Description: with some floral and foliage motifs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Deutsche Fotothek Dresden, 2024
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a November 1970 B&W photograph [171 979] by Helmut Seifert in the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden [https://www.europeana.eu/eu/item/463/item_OARKXLPB5R3TZ5G5T23BG2NHZFWBWXWX] [accessed 28 September 2024]
Copyright Instructions: Educational Use Permitted
design element - motifs - moulding - patterned
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Deutsche Fotothek Dresden, 2024
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a November 1970 B&W photograph [171 979] by Helmut Seifert in the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden [https://www.europeana.eu/eu/item/463/item_OARKXLPB5R3TZ5G5T23BG2NHZFWBWXWX] [accessed 28 September 2024]
Copyright Instructions: Educational Use Permitted
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche in Penig"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael w, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 11 September 2011 by Michael w [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtkirche_Penig.jpg] [accessed 28 September 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
information
Scene Description: record file in the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Deutsche Fotothek Dresden, 2024
Image Source: digital image of a record in the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden Taufstein [https://www.europeana.eu/item/463/item_OARKXLPB5R3TZ5G5T23BG2NHZFWBWXWX] [accessed 28 September 2024]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles on the pedestal base side; framed in scrolls that may simmbolise wings; possibly cherub heads or putti
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Deutsche Fotothek Dresden, 2024
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a November 1970 B&W photograph [171 979] by Helmut Seifert in the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden [https://www.europeana.eu/eu/item/463/item_OARKXLPB5R3TZ5G5T23BG2NHZFWBWXWX] [accessed 28 September 2024]
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design element - motifs - fruit
Scene Description: all around the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Deutsche Fotothek Dresden, 2024
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a November 1970 B&W photograph [171 979] by Helmut Seifert in the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden [https://www.europeana.eu/eu/item/463/item_OARKXLPB5R3TZ5G5T23BG2NHZFWBWXWX] [accessed 28 September 2024]
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New Testament - Public life of Christ - Christ blessing the children
Scene Description: Source caption: "Der Taufstein wird von vier Reliefs zu biblischen Geschichten geziert, die samt und sonders einen Bezug zur Taufe haben."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christian Ruf / Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph by Christian Ruf in the Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten [https://www.dnn.de/lokales/umland/penig-stadtkirche-erbaut-mithilfe-vieler-dresdner-kuenstler-L5T5HA6GT4VWSGNDXBNZEAFWUA.html] [accessed 28 September 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 25729PEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1609
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early), Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gabriel Eckardt aus Freiberg
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutherische Stadtkirche Unser Lieben Frauen auf dem Berge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary
Church Notes: church documented 1313 as a chapel-of-ease to St.-Aegidien-Kirche in Penig; re-built 1476; consecrated 1515; restored 1890-1892, 1969 and 1988-1983
Church Address: Friedensstraße 23, 09322 Penig, Germany
Site Location: Mittelsachsen, Sachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) road K8260, on the S bank of the Zwickauer Moulde, 25-30 km NW of Chemnitz
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one in the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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Renaissance baptismal font of 1609 decorated with four Biblical scenes listed and illustrated in Schulin (2021): "Eine weitere Gruppe von TB aus der Renaissance verdient eine besondere Würdigung: TB mit (und zwar meist strikt vertikal) zylindrischen Kuppen, die intensive, geradezu ausladende Reliefdarstellungen in effektvoller Farbigkeit aufweisen und vor allem in Sachsen anzutreffen sind. Beispiel: das TB in Ev. Unserer
Lieben Frauen auf dem Berge von Gabriel Eckhardt zu Penig (1609) (Abb. 173). Vier Bildmotive (Sintflut, Durchzug durch das Rote Meer, Kindersegnung und Aussendung der Jünger) sind in lebendiger Form dargestellt, wobei die Farben zwar sparsam, aber dafür um so auffallender verwendet werden (bis hin zu den Rosa-Bäckchen der weiblichen Köpfe am Schaft). Die Bilder trennen kleine Voluten und Fruchtgebinde." The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtkirche_Penig] [accessed 28 September 2024] reports a baptismal font of 1609 by Gabriel Eckardt: "Der Taufstein von Gabriel Eckardt aus dem Jahr 1609 ist mit figurenreichen Reliefs versehen". The font consists of a cylindrical basin with a rounded underbowl raised on a round pedestal base; the sides of the basin are decorated with four cartouches, each has a biblical scene; each scene is accompanied with related German inscription; between the cartouches are four protruding elaborate scrolls; the base is decorated with four heads set at 90-degree angles, possibly cherubs or putti, with abundant fruits around them.
Lieben Frauen auf dem Berge von Gabriel Eckhardt zu Penig (1609) (Abb. 173). Vier Bildmotive (Sintflut, Durchzug durch das Rote Meer, Kindersegnung und Aussendung der Jünger) sind in lebendiger Form dargestellt, wobei die Farben zwar sparsam, aber dafür um so auffallender verwendet werden (bis hin zu den Rosa-Bäckchen der weiblichen Köpfe am Schaft). Die Bilder trennen kleine Voluten und Fruchtgebinde." The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtkirche_Penig] [accessed 28 September 2024] reports a baptismal font of 1609 by Gabriel Eckardt: "Der Taufstein von Gabriel Eckardt aus dem Jahr 1609 ist mit figurenreichen Reliefs versehen". The font consists of a cylindrical basin with a rounded underbowl raised on a round pedestal base; the sides of the basin are decorated with four cartouches, each has a biblical scene; each scene is accompanied with related German inscription; between the cartouches are four protruding elaborate scrolls; the base is decorated with four heads set at 90-degree angles, possibly cherubs or putti, with abundant fruits around them.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 338664 5644755
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.931833, 12.704014
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 55′ 54.6″ N, 12° 42′ 14.45″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: on the basin sides, above the scenes
Inscription Text: "[...] Marci - 10 - Lasset die Kind[?]lein zu mir kommen und Wehret inen niecht [...]"
Inscription Notes: several inscriptions above the scenes
Inscription Source: [cf. ImagesArea]
REFERENCES
- Schulin, Bertram, Taufbecken in Deutschland: Form und Ikonographie, 2021, p. 131-132, Abb. 173