Hans Bornemann (painter)
Hans Bornemann (* around 1420, proven in the period from 1448 to 1469; † around 1474 probably in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg painter of the late Middle Ages .
Life
The first documentary evidence in 1448 names him with his full name as the inheritance owner of a property in Hamburg. However, as early as 1444 there is a mention in the will of the painter Conrad von Vechta , who can only be proven in documents , which considers a workshop employee Hans . In this will he is bequeathed a valuable cloak and half of his art.
The majority of his preserved works are located in Lüneburg . Nevertheless Bornemann is considered a Hamburg painter, because this is where he lived and was a member of the painter's office.
Hans Bornemann was one of the founders of the brotherhood of St. Luke's Guild in Hamburg. Under the name of the Evangelist Luke, painters in other cities of the time also formed social networks. For the City Council of Hamburg he also worked in its representative office in Stade . In the Hamburg town hall he created seventeen pictures of princes. These are only mentioned in a document and have not been preserved.
Bornemann probably received part of his training in the Netherlands , probably under the influence of the workshop of Robert Campin and the master of Flémalle . Influenced by the Dutch suggestions that were modern for the time, Hans Bornemann brought a new artistic method of representation to Northern Germany, which the art historian Hans-Georg Gmelin called "a new observation of reality". In the years between 1444 and 1447, Bornemann created the first topographically accurate cityscape of Northern Germany on the Heiligental Altar with the panorama of Lüneburg in the background. This achievement can be compared with the depiction of Lake Geneva on the table of the miraculous fish haul Petri by Konrad Witz .
In 1457 he painted a picture of St. for the Old Mariendom in Hamburg. Ansgar with the donor of the picture, the cathedral provost Johan Middelman. After the cathedral was demolished in 1804, the painting was moved to the main church of St. Peter in 1817 .
After Bornemann's death, his widow Gherburg Bornemann married the younger painter Hinrik Funhof (?) In 1475 . The craftsman widows were not allowed to run the business independently for more than a year after the workshop master's death. This was decided by the male-dominated guild and laid down in the guild order. In order to maintain her status, the widow had to choose a spouse or successor as workshop master after a year of widowhood at the latest and make the new workshop manager through marriage. According to this, Hans Bornemann must have died in 1474.
The Hamburg painter Hinrik Bornemann was the son of Hans Bornemann and his wife Gherburg.
Works
- High altar of the Nikolaikirche in Lüneburg , so-called Lamberti altar
- Panels from the former Heiligental Altarpiece in the ambulatory of the Lüneburg Nikolaikirche
- Four miniatures in the newer Sachsenspiegel in the Ratsbücherei Lüneburg
- Announcement board in Hamburg's main church Sankt Petri
literature
- Helmut Reinecke: The painter Hans Bornemann , in: Journal of the German Association for Art History, Vol. 5, 1938, pp. 204-229
- Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf: Borneman, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 468 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans-Georg Gmelin: Hans Bornemann's artistic position and aftermath in north-west Germany , in: Low German contributions to art history , Vol. 8, 1969, pp. 109-146
- Stephan Kemperdick: On the work of Johannes Bornemann. Reflections on chronology and models , in: Low German contributions to art history , Vol. 33, 1994, pp. 57–86
- Jürgen Sarnowsky: Borneman (n), Hans . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 54-55 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bornemann, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hamburg painter of the late Middle Ages |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | before 1474 |
| Place of death | unsure: Hamburg |