Gabriel Hornstein

Gabriel Hornstein († after 1639), also written Gabriel Hornstain, was a German draftsman .

Little is known of Gabriel Hornstein. Only two inked pen drawings, depictions of the church of the Admont Benedictine Abbey , which was destroyed in 1865, can be assigned to him without any doubt. These drawings are in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett . One shows the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple, is signed and dated 1639. The pen drawing of a representation of Saint Benedict is glued to the back. The other drawing shows the Adoration of the Magi and is signed GH . St. Jerome is depicted on the back , but he was not made by Gabriel Hornstein.

literature

• Elfried Bock: The German champions. Descriptive list of all drawings (= The drawings of old masters in the Kupferstichkabinett. ). Volume 1: Text. Bard, Berlin 1921, p. 194.
• Hornstein, Gabriel in: General Artist Lexicon . = Artists of the World. AKL online. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2004ff., ISBN 978-3-598-41800-6 , Doc-ID: 00143639.
• Astrid Schierz: Gabriel Hornstain. Christ crowned with thorns. In: Dorotheum Wien (Ed.): Master drawings, prints up to 1900, watercolors and miniatures. Auction catalog, March 24, 2011. Dorotheum, Vienna 2011, online .