Single portrait of Wolter Rotkirchen

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General information
Original location Cologne?
Current location Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, inv. no. WRM 368
Artist Godtfridus von Wedig (copy)
Date 1478 (original)
1624 (copy)
Material Oil on oak panel
Dimensions 100 x 75 cm
Visual elements
Short description Wolter Rotkirchen is portrayed sitting in a room, half-length, turned to the viewer's right. In his right hand a rosary, a flower in his left. Through two windows can be seen a castle and a landscape with a dead tree.
Depicted pilgrim
Personal information
Name Wolter Rotkirchen
Social status / profession Son of a town counselor (schepen) of Cologne, also named Wolter (Greven).
Coat of arms Top left: early renaissance shield - per bend sinister, in 1 a wreathed moor's bust (linksgeschuind: in 1 een morenbuste met wrong); crest: the moor's bust issuant (helmteken: de morenbuste uitkomend)
Text Bottom left: do man screff m cccc iar und lxxviiii offenbar, do quam ich, Wolter Rotkirchen, von Ierusalem und S. Kattrinen und Rom und was xxii iar alt und also gestalt
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1479 (at the age of 22)
Attributes Jerusalem pilgrimage None
Other pilgrimages Sinai, monastery of St Catherine; Rome
Additional information
Literature
  • Greven, Joseph, Die Kölner Kartause und die Anfänge der katholischen Reform in Deutschland, Katholisches Leben und Kämpfen im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung 6 (Münster 1935), pp. 77-78
  • Schulten, Walter, 500 Jahre Rosenkranz, 1475 Köln 1975: Erzbischöfliches Diözesan-Museum Köln, 15. Oktober 1975 (Cologne 1975), cat. A14, p. 134
Description at Bildindex
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