Hans Bock the Elder
Hans Bock the Elder (* around 1550 in Zabern ; † March 16, 1624 in Basel ) was a painter , draftsman , restorer and geometer .
Life
Hans Bock was a student of Hans Hug Kluber (1535–1578), in whose workshop in Basel he came in 1571 from Strasbourg as a journeyman. In 1572 he was accepted as a master in the Guild of Heaven . In 1579, he restored the works of Hans Holbein the Younger in Basel's town hall , who had been commissioned to design what was then the Grand Council Chamber. Between 1608 and 1611 Bock created there own works: he painted above the portals the city arms and stood Victories with palm branches and a children's parade represents 1608/09 emerged from it works well. " Jehoshaphat exhorted the judges" and "Herod Hyrcanus" to the side walls of the courtyard under the arcades . During this time he also created a work above the Council steps that depicts the “Last Judgment”. He received commissions from influential Basel residents such as Felix Platter and Basilius Amerbach . They were also art collectors, so that Hans Bock the elder found models and commissions there. Hans Hug Kluber and Hans Bock the Elder are considered to be the successors of Holbein (and restorers of his paintings) in Basel after his departure in 1532.
Hans Bock founded a family of artists ; he was the father of Emanuel the Elder (who restored the Basler Totentanz after Hans Hug Kluber from 1614 to 1616 ), Felix, Hans the Younger, Niklaus and Peter Bock, all of whom were painters, and of three daughters.
Museum property
- Portrait of Helena d'Annone (1573), on a boxwood can in the National Museum Zurich
- Venus Dance (1575), Städel in Frankfurt am Main
- Dead Christ in the grave (1580/90) in the Solothurn Art Museum
- Portrait of Felix Plattner (1584), University of Basel
- Copy of the Christ Child based on Holbein's Solothurn Madonna (before 1585/87), Kunstmuseum Basel
- Triptycus of St. Thodul (1596) (Valais History Museum)
literature
- Daniel Burckhardt-Werthemann: Hans Bock stayed in Solothurn. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Vol. 2, 1903, pp. 163–170. ( Digitized version )
- Berthold Haendcke : Bock, Hans d. Ä. In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 157–159 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Walter Hugelshofer : Bock, Hans the Elder. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 342 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ch. Heydrich: Bock, Switzerland. Painter family . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , pp. 37-39.
- Romaine Syburra-Bertelletto, “Une découverte majeure par le Musée d'histoire du Valais: le triptyque de saint Théodule se révèle signé par l'artiste bâlois Hans Bock l'Ancien”, Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History 73, 3/2016, Pp. 209-216.
Web links
- Maria Becker: Bock, Hans (the elder). In: Sikart
- Hans-Peter Wittwer: Bock, Hans (the elder). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Britta-R. Schwahn: Kl (a) uber (Gluber), Hans Hug (o). In: New German Biography. 12, 1979, p. 130 f. ( Deutsche-biographie.de )
- ↑ Ulrich Zollinger: Hans Bock: Toter Christ im Grabe (1580/90) In: Christoph Lichtin, Roman Buxbaum: The art and science: five lectures (= “Analysis - Signs, Indicators, Image” on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Solothurn Art Museum ) Solothurn Art Association. Ed. Fink, Zurich 2003, p. 61 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bock, Hans the Elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1550 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Babble |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1624 |
| Place of death | Basel |