Hans Beheim the Elder

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Hans Beheim the Elder (* 1455/60; † before August 26, 1538 ), also Hans Behaim , was probably the most important architect ( stonemason and city ​​architect ) of the late Gothic around 1500 in Nuremberg .

Life

Beheim's father was also called Hans and was a craftsman, his mother's name was Adelheid (both † before 1497). His brother Lorenz Behaim († 1494, father of Lorenz Behaim ) was a gun founder and cymbal beater . He was the father of three sons, Matthias Behaim , clergyman at St. Lorenz in Nuremberg, Hans Behaim the Younger , gunsmith (including the Sigismund bell in Krakow ), Paulus Behaim (city and fortress builder) and three daughters.

Works

The Welserhof

Hans Beheim erected the following buildings in Nuremberg:

  • The Unschlitthaus on the former 2nd moat (1490/91)
  • Imperial court for Heinrich Wolff von Wolfstahl 1496/97 (destroyed)
  • Kornhaus am Innere Frauentor, 1498–1502;
  • Large scale on the 2nd moat (since 1572 the large toll hall , reconstruction in 1952)
  • The old scales, men's or front scales with the men's drink room, 1497/98 (destroyed)
  • The granary on the forts, the former imperial stables on the castle, 1494/95, 1951 reconstruction as a youth hostel, today a youth hostel;
  • The former granary of the German Order Coming (presumed) 1516 (preserved as police headquarters)
  • Fortress Lichtenau near Ansbach on the older castle building, 1515/16
  • Expansion of the Heilig-Geist-Spital with overbuilding of one arm of the Pegnitz and a large so-called Kreuzigungshof, 1504/27 (reconstruction 1951/52)
  • Landauersches Twelve Brothers House with All Saints' Chapel, 1506/07 (partially preserved, but damaged)
  • St. Sebastiansspital with chapel, 1509/13 (broken off in 1552)
  • Parts of the Nuremberg town hall (1514/15): including extension of the council chamber and facade to Fünferplatz and double staircase to the large hall
  • The Welserhof , for the merchant Jakob Welser , Theresienstr. 7, 1509/12 (formerly "House of the Golden Rose", in the 14th / 15th century the Stromer house , later Krafftsche's house, courtyard preserved, facade badly destroyed)
  • Residential houses: Adlerstr. 21, 1498 (courtyard preserved, facade changed in baroque style), Bindergasse 26 (destroyed), suction. historical court for Peter Imhoff , Tucherstr. 20, around 1500 (destroyed)
  • Rectory of the Frauenkirche, Winklerstr. 31
  • The Landauerkapelle (also: All Saints ' Chapel, Twelve Messenger Chapel)
  • Holzschuherkapelle on the Johannisfriedhof (Nuremberg)
  • Chapel at the Rochusfriedhof

Several church extensions are attributed to him in the vicinity of Nuremberg (e.g. the late Gothic choir of the parish church in Poppenreuth, completed in 1522 ).

literature

  • Ernst Eichhorn: Hans Beheim d. Ä. - Nuremberg's city architect of the Dürer period . Munich: Bayerische Vereinsbank, 1990, 79 p. (Bavaria)
  • Ulrike Fürst: The Nuremberg granaries by Hans Behaim d. Ä. - Social and representative buildings in the Free Imperial City at the turn of the 16th century . Master's thesis with Greiselmayer at the Institute for Art History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Erlangen (from: Hochschulnachrichten 1999, Central Institute for Art History, Munich)
  • Manfred Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon . Munich 2007
  • Kurt Pilz:  Behaim, Hans the Elder. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 748 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Werner Schultheiß: The Nuremberg architect Hans Behaim d. Ä., His origin and first construction activity until 1491 , in: MVGN 47, 1956, p. 426

Web links

Commons : Hans Beheim the Elder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Pilz:  Behaim, Hans the Elder. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 748 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Kaiserburg Nuremberg, official guide, 1994
personal data
SURNAME Beheim, Hans the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behaim, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder and architect in Nuremberg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1460
DATE OF DEATH before August 26, 1538