Hans Amann

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Coat of arms of Abbot Michael Gaißer, Hans Amann, 1598 (copy)

Hans Amann (* around 1555 in Ulm ; † around 1626 in Villingen ) was a southern German sculptor of the Renaissance .

He was the son of a stone mason of the same name from Ulm and was probably born there. In Ulm, the name can be found in 1580 and 1585 as the master of the three Speth's tombs in the Hettinger church and in 1589 as the creator of the pulpit in the Hechingen monastery church of St. Luzen . It cannot be clearly determined whether this was the father or the son, because apparently both used the same maker's mark. The father to whom u. a. Attributes work on the bell tower of Ulm Minster , died in 1597. His son probably went to Villingen shortly after his death , where he has been documented since the same year and has been listed in the town register since 1601. Around 1600 he was accepted into the Villingen builders' guild , and in 1605 he bought a house in Brunnengasse. He probably died around 1626 and was buried in the ossuary near the old town church.

Alongside Hans Kraut and Anton Berin, Amann is one of the most famous Villingen artists. Numerous carving works come from him, such as the large coat of arms of Abbot Georg Michael Gaisser , a guild drawer for the Villingen building workers' guild and a painted wooden relief entitled “The Purgatory”, all of which are in the Franciscan Museum in Villingen. A copy of the Gaißer coat of arms can be seen above the portal of the Old Prelature, which was renovated in 2010. For the Villinger Münster he created the epitaph of the Junker Johann Christoph Widmann, in Hüfingen that of Baron Arbogast von Schellenberg . One street each in Villingen and Hechingen are named after him.

literature

  • J. Fuchs: A short history of art Villingen , in: Villingen. From the history of the city , Villingen 1971.
  • P. Revellio: Contributions to the history of the city of Villingen , Villingen 1964, pp. 222–225.

Web links

State bibliography of Baden-Württemberg with information about Hans Amann

Remarks

  1. ↑ Today, Brunnenstrasse No. 29, see Wilfried Steinhart: Riddle solved. Previously unknown work (around 1621) discovered by HANS AMANN in: Villingen in the course of time. Annual booklet of the history and homeland association Villingen , year XXXIII / 2010, pp. 19–27.
  2. ^ Johann Christoph Widmann von Mühringen, b. c. 1550, died March 28, 1621 in Villingen
personal data
SURNAME Amann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1555
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH around 1626
Place of death Villingen-Schwenningen