Hans Fries (painter)

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St. John in the oil kettle
From the Freiburg Chronicle by Peter von Molsheim : Assault of federal merchants on the Rhine by Knight Bilgri von Heudorf; April 3, 1473

Hans Fries (* around 1460 in Freiburg im Üechtland ; † around 1523 in Bern ) was an important Swiss painter before the Reformation .

Life

He was the son of a baker. His first surviving attempt at painting as a thirteen-year-old comes from the year 1478: In the Freiburg Chronicle of the Burgundian Wars , begun by Freiburg's Peter von Molsheim , he made some initials and a full picture; then he broke off his illustration work in the Chronicle.

At the end of the 1470s, Fries learned from the Bern painter Heinrich Bichler . In 1482 he returned to Freiburg, continued to work on Molsheim's chronicle and was busy with other smaller jobs. Then he went on a journey; first to Basel, where he seemed to have worked as a draftsman of woodcuts. After a crisis in the Basel printing industry, he is said to have come to South Tyrol via southern Germany.

After his return to Freiburg he was appointed town painter in 1501; later he became a councilor. During this time he designed many altars. Around 1510 he moved to Bern, where he was mentioned for the last time in 1523.

Works (selection)

  • Christ under the weight of the cross , 1502, canvas, 81 × 164 cm, Bern , Kunstmuseum
  • Wing of a Johannes altar , outside: Johannes drinks the poison cup , around 1507, wood, 130 × 32 cm, Zurich , Swiss National Museum
  • Wings of a Johannes altar, inside: two Johannes visions , around 1507, wood, 130 × 32 cm, Zurich, Swiss National Museum
  • St. Barbara (altar wing), 1503, wood, 98 × 67 cm, Freiburg im Üechtland , Musée d'Art et d'Histoire
  • St. Christophorus (altar wing), 1503, wood, 98 × 67 cm, Freiburg im Üechtland, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire.
  • St. Margareta (altar wing), around 1505, wood, 97 × 30 cm, Freiburg im Üechtland, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire.
  • St. Nicholas (altar wing), around 1505, wood, 97 × 30 cm, Freiburg im Üechtland, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire.
  • Cross allegory , around 1515, wood, 148 × 98 cm, Freiburg im Üechtland, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire.
  • from a Johannes triptych, left wing outside: Sermon of Johannes the Baptist before Herod , 1514, wood, 124 × 76 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel
  • from a Johannes triptych, left wing inside: Beheading of Johannes the Baptist , 1514, wood, 124 × 76 cm, Basel, Kunstmuseum
  • from a Johannes triptych, right wing inside: St. John in the oil kettle , 1514, wood, 125 × 75 cm, Basel, Kunstmuseum
  • The twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple , 1512, coniferous wood 108.4 × 57.8 cm, panel from the lower register on the inside of the left wing of a Marien Altar, Kunstmuseum Basel
  • Joachim and Anna choose a sacrificial lamb , 1512, coniferous wood, 87.5 × 56.5 cm, panel from the upper register of the left wing outside of a Marien Altar, Kunstmuseum Basel

literature

Sermon of St. Anthony of Padua
  • Carl Gerhard Baumann: About the origin of the oldest Swiss illustrated chronicles (1468-1485) (= writings of the Bern Citizens' Library). Burger library, Bern 1971
  • Eduard His:  Fries, Hans . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 73.
  • Anna Kelterborn-Haemmerli: The Art of Hans Fries . In: Studies on German Art History , No. 245th JH Ed. Heitz, Strasbourg 1927, pp. 1-22
  • Margarete Pfister-Burkhalter:  Fries, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 607 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Verena Villiger et al. (Ed.): Hans Fries. A painter at the turn of the century. With contributions by Nott Caviezel, among others, Museum of Art and History, Freiburg / Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-85823-911-9
  • Fries, Hans (1465? -1523) , in: Bernard Samuel Myers (Ed.): McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art . McGraw-Hill, New York 1969

Web links

Commons : Hans Fries  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Gerhard Baumann: About the origin of the oldest Swiss illustrated chronicles (1468 - 1485) ; Writings from the Bern Citizens' Library; Bern 1971; P. 52ff.
personal data
SURNAME Fries, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1460
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Üechtland
DATE OF DEATH around 1520
Place of death Bern