Franz Hoppenstätt

Franz Hoppenstätt († 1657 or 1658) was a German-Estonian wood carver.

life and work

Franz Hoppenstätt probably came from Bremen . His work in Estonia has been documented since the 1640s. From 1653 he was a citizen of Tallinn . There he worked as a wood carver. His early baroque works, decorated with splendid acanthus ornaments , achieved great fame.

Most famous are the colored pulpit made by Hoppenstätt with splendid carvings in the church of Järva-Jaani (1648), the decorative wall in the burial chapel of Bogislaus von Rosens in the Tallinn Nikolaikirche (1655) and the door in the house Pikk tänav 71 in the old town from Tallinn. None of the works bears Hoppenstätts signature, so that the final attribution remains uncertain; but all three works come from the same artist.

Hoppenstätt died in the late 1650s, probably from the plague .

Web links

• Ornamental wall of the burial chapel Bogislaus von Rosens (English)
• Ev. Lutheran St. John's Church in Järva-Jaani

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Decorative Screen of the Chapel of Bogislaus Rosen ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. engl. Font of the art museum in Eesti 
2. ↑ Destroyed in a Soviet air raid on Tallinn in March 1944, but fragments have been preserved
3. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 94
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.