Konrad
Weigand

Student of the Nuremberg School of Arts and Crafts under August von Kreling and the Munich Academy under Wilhelm von Diez, active in Munich. He also seems to have been a flutist, owning a set of Denner recorders. Two self-portraits are in the possession of the MStN.

Works: "Aufführung einer Hans Sachs'schen Komödie in Nürnberg", oil on cardboard; "Aufführung des Faßnachtsschwanks von Hans Sachs im Heilsbronner Hof", preparatory drawing for a wood engraving; "Raubritter Schüttensamen wird gefangen und nach Nürnberg gebracht", oil painting, also served as a model for a wood engraving from 1887. ESCHENAU b. Eckental, ev. Pfarrkirche: altarpiece.

MuS: MUNICH, BStGs.-, StGS. NÜRNBERG, MStN: ca. 9 paintings, including "Wedding of Albrecht Dürer".

Lit.: ADB; Thieme-Becker; Boetticher; Müller-Singer; Fr. Precht, 1888; Stimmen der Kunst, 1924/25; Münchner Maler, vol. 4; Die Bogenhauser Künstlerkapelle, special volume of the series "Basler Jb. für Musikpraxis", Winterthur 1992.

Exhibits: 1906/2; 1909/1; 1912/1; 1941/2; 1942/1; 1953/4; 1954/3; 1956/4; 1958/2; 1961/23; 1965/8; 2004/6, p. 87.

(quoted from the Nuremberg Künstlerlexikon, edited by Manfred H. Grieb)