Hans Friedrich Brentel (II.)

Hans Friedrich Brentel (* around 1600 in Burglengenfeld (uncertain), † 1634 in Bayreuth ) was a painter and coin cutter in Franconia . He was the older son of the painter Elias Brentel and a brother of the painter Friedrich Brentel (II.) .

Life

Hans Friedrich Brentel was the eldest son of his father Elias and his first wife Veronica. He learned the painting trade from his father. It is possible that he left Burglengenfeld at the same time as his father. At the beginning of 1622 he got the offer to cut coins (mint stamps) in the newly established "Münze zu Schauenstein" . This speaks for a certain fame as a painter and for an experience in metalworking, which he must have learned in addition to painting. This Brandenburg-Franconian mint minted so-called Kipper coins at the beginning of the Thirty Years War . As part of his employment in Schauenstein, Brentel probably also made small coin stamps for the “Mint in Rehau” . The two tipper mints were closed again on September 28, 1622. The cut of the Sechsbätzner made by Brentel for the Schauensteiner Mint is characterized by its rigidity. In the midst of working as a coin cutter, on June 25, 1622, Brentel married Catharina von der Stadt in Bayreuth, a daughter of the Nuremberg jeweler Johann von der Stadt, who had already died at that time . It is known that Hans Friedrich Brentel was basically a painter, but nothing has been learned about this activity.

Notes and individual references

1. ^ Gerhard Schön: Münz- und Geldgeschichte ... , p. 298; Year and place of death according to Sitzmann; but there is no evidence of this in the archives of the Bayreuth city church.
2. ^ Gerhard Schön: Münz- und Geldgeschichte ... , p. 126/127, as well as 120 and 241

literature

• Gerhard Schön: Coin and monetary history of the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth in the 17th and 18th centuries , dissertation, Munich 2008
• Karl Sitzmann : Artists and craftsmen in Eastern Franconia , Kulmbach I 1957, II, III 1962, IV 1976 (reprint 1983)