Friedrich Hammer (sculptor)

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Self-portrait (1542) by Friedrich Hammer, signed FHSM (= Friedrich Hammer, master stonemason)

Friedrich Hammer , also Fritz Hammer and ( French ) Frédéric Hammer , was a German post-Gothic sculptor and stonemason who worked in the city of Hagenau in Alsace from 1519–1544 , which was then at its peak.

Friedrich Hammer was the son of the sculptor Hans Meiger von Werde , called Hans Hammer (or Hammerer), who worked in neighboring Strasbourg . His earliest documented works include the keystones and other reliefs in the sacristy of the pilgrimage church of Marienthal Abbey . The twelve meter high sacrament house in the church of St. George dates from 1523 . The city history museum Musée historique de Haguenau preserves a self-portrait (1542) of the artist, which comes from the former town hall, which was demolished in 1784. All of these and the other surviving works are carved from sandstone .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hammer, Hans <1440> , deutschefotothek.de
  2. ↑ 2. 1257-1543: une communauté de moines guillelmites dynamiques on basiliquemarienthal.fr
  3. ↑ B. Parent: Haguenau. Hôtel de ville , September 22, 1987, p. 22

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personal data
SURNAME Hammer, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hammer, Fritz; Hammer, Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and stonemason
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century