WOLF, Ebert the Younger

During the early seventeenth century countless grand houses and churches were built in Germany, and even in the Protestant areas, where the princes took over ecclesiastical possessions almost entirely, new palaces provided sculptors with numerous opportunities. The court in B�ckeburg, for example, developed into a centre of independent artistic activity as a result of the cultural renaissance along the Weser. Three members of the Wolf family, Ebert the Elder, and his sons Ebert the Younger an Jonas all worked on the furnishing of the palace at B�ckeburg. In the palace chapel life-size kneeling angels support the altar table, each carrying a burning torch. With this design Ebert the Younger seems to have translated German Mannerism into the forms of an early native Baroque style.

The picture shows one of the angels holding torch.

The Door of the Gods is a decorative door in the Golden Hall of B�ckeburg Palace, designed in late Renaissance and Mannerist style by Ebert Wolf the Younger and his brother Hans Wolf.

During the early seventeenth century countless grand houses and churches were built in Germany, and even in the Protestant areas, where the princes took over ecclesiastical possessions almost entirely, new palaces provided sculptors with numerous opportunities. The court in B�ckeburg, for example, developed into a centre of independent artistic activity as a result of the cultural renaissance along the Weser. Three members of the Wolf family, Ebert the Elder, and his sons Ebert the Younger an Jonas all worked on the furnishing of the palace at B�ckeburg. In the palace chapel life-size kneeling angels support the altar table, each carrying a burning torch. With this design Ebert the Younger seems to have translated German Mannerism into the forms of an early native Baroque style.

The picture shows the choir of the palace chapel with the altar table by Ebert Wolf the Younger and his brother Jonas Wolf.