Hans Bien

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Hans Bien (born February 27, 1591 in Nuremberg ; † August 9, 1632 ibid) was a draftsman and stonemason for the city of Nuremberg.

Next to Hieronymus Braun, he is the second known Nuremberg cartographer in the 17th century. He received his training as a stonemason and draftsman from the Stadtwerkmeister Jakob Wolff the Elder. From 1617 to 1619 he wandered through Upper Germany and Italy as a stonemason. In 1620 he passed the master's examination and then worked as a draftsman, geometer, architect, building appraiser and fortress builder for the imperial city of Nuremberg . From 1627 he received a fixed salary as a military advisor. Hans Bien died in 1632 and was buried in the Rochusfriedhof; the grave has not been preserved.

Bien became famous through depictions of the city of Nuremberg: Landwehr maps of the Nuremberg area (1620), a Nuremberg city plan (1621–1627), the so-called Bien map (another city plan, 1628–1631) and a map of the care office of Lauf (1628).

The detailed topography plans by Hans Bien make it possible to get a very precise picture of the urban structure of Nuremberg in the early 17th century.

literature

  • Peter Fleischmann: The Nuremberg draftsman, builder and cartographer Hans Bien (1591–1632). An exhibition by the Nuremberg State Archives on the occasion of the artist's 400th birthday. Nuremberg June 8th-July 28th, 1991. General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives, Munich-Nuremberg 1991, ISBN 3-921635-20-9
  • Wilhelm Schwemmer:  Bien, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 228 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Bien, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Draftsman and stonemason for the city of Nuremberg
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1591
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1632
Place of death Nuremberg