Christoph Jamnitzer

Portrait of Christoph Jamnitzer by Lorenz Strauch

Christoph Jamnitzer (born May 11, 1563 in Nuremberg ; † December 22, 1618 ibid) was a Nuremberg draftsman and goldsmith of the late Renaissance . He made metal globes and the Mohrenkopf Cup of the Saxon Treasure . The cup is a drinking vessel in the shape of a head, the top of which can be removed. It can be admired in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich (Inv.-No. 2000 / 81.1-2). It has a current estimate of 3.83 million euros.

In 1602, Christoph Jamnitzer was named a member of the Greater Nuremberg Council .

Christoph Jamnitzer is the grandson of the Nuremberg goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer (1507 / 08–1585). In 1592 he acquired the master's license. He was a goldsmith, draftsman and graphic artist. Eppenbach (1567-1640), widowed with his wife Clara Glatz, had three sons and daughters.

Auctions

1825 in Nuremberg : A wolf preaches to the geese, which stupidly gawk at the strange speaker.

gallery

Mohrenkopf-Pokal, between 1593 and 1602, Bavarian National Museum, inv. No. 2000 / 81.1-2
Watering vessel in the form of a war elephant, around 1600, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin , Inv. No.K 3900

literature

Peter E. Allmayer-Beck (Hrsg.): Models of the world. Earth and celestial globes . Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85447-733-3 , p. 276.
Klaus Pechstein: Jamnitzer, Christoph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 328 f. ( Digitized version ).
Klaus Pechstein: The Nuremberg goldsmith and draftsman Christoph Jamnitzer. Fränkische Lebensbilder, Vol. 10. Commission publishing house Degener & Co., Neustadt / Aisch 1982, ISBN 3-7686-9064-4 , pp. 179-192.
Ralf Schürer: Jamnitzer, Christoph . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 486 ( complete edition online ).
The Morenkopf Cup by Christoph Jamnitzer , ed. by Renate Eikelmann, arr. by Lorenz Seelig, Achim Riether, Ralf Schürer and others, Munich 2002, without ISBN

Web links

Friedrich Schlie : A work by Christoph Jamnitzer (with illustrations). From the arts and crafts department of the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. In: Kunstgewerbeblatt. Pp. 152–155, issue 8, 1888 , accessed on December 7, 2015 (digitized version of Heidelberg University).

Individual evidence

↑ LIST OF THE v.DERSCHAUISCHE Kunstkabinett zu NÜRNBERG…. Nuremberg, at the obliged auctioneer Schmidmer., 1825., 250 p., Directory of rare art collections., 1825., Google Books, online , p. 70 (38)

personal data
SURNAME	Jamnitzer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nuremberg goldsmith of the late Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH	May 11, 1563
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	December 22, 1618
Place of death	Nuremberg

[1] LIST OF THE v.DERSCHAUISCHE Kunstkabinett zu NÜRNBERG…. Nuremberg, at the obliged auctioneer Schmidmer., 1825., 250 p., Directory of rare art collections., 1825., Google Books, online , p. 70 (38)