Hans Fyoll

Hans Fyoll (also: Fyol , Viol ) (* 1460 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 1531 ibid) was a German painter.

Life

Fyoll was a son of Conrad Fyoll and grandson of Sebald Fyoll in Frankfurt am Main . His mother died in 1469, and in 1477 he is mentioned as his father's assistant in restoration work on the Römer , who died in 1486. In 1487 he acquired Frankfurt citizenship. He lived from 1488 in the house Leitrechen in the lane (no. 102, destroyed in World War II). He may have moved into the house on the occasion of his marriage to his wife Magarethe von Buchenau , which is mentioned for the first time in 1492.

From 1500 entries against him in the court books pile up, which can be summarized in the conclusion that Fyoll lived far beyond his means. The lawsuits relate not only to outstanding bills for home, yard and painting utensils, but also to luxury goods such as expensive fabrics. This is confirmed by the entries in the books of that time, according to which Fyoll often paid little or no tax , even though he had a steady income.

In 1521 his first wife died, who had given him a son named Hans , who later became vicar to St. Bartholomew , as well as the daughters Anna and Kunigunde . In the same year he married the widow Margarethe , who had three children. As a will of the spouses from 1523 reveals, Fyoll's second wife was apparently better off and, in addition to larger household items, also owned fields and meadows near Reifenberg im Taunus . When he died in early 1531, his financial situation had not noticeably improved, nor had the number of his legal disputes noticeably decreased.

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In 1499 Fyoll created the panel with Christ on the cross , which hung over the entrance to the council chamber. In 1500 he designed the new building of the barefoot monastery with wall paintings and white binder work and created a clan image for the same monastery . The clan altar in the Historical Museum , which was previously attributed to him , does not come from him, however. It is signed HF , and a year of birth given in 1496 in the self-portrait of the master of Frankfurt , as the artist of the altar is referred to as an alternative, would correspond to the Fyolls. However, since the altar was paid for by a pious private citizen, as usual, no documentary and therefore serious attribution can be made.

Fyoll was Conrad Faber's teacher , who was mentioned in 1526 as his journeyman and already successful portraitist. Received documents indicate that he ran a large workshop for church paintings. However, no work that has survived today can be ascribed to him with certainty.

literature

• Michaela Schedl: Panel painting of the late Gothic on the southern Middle Rhine (= sources and treatises on the Middle Rhine church history 135). Mainz 2016, here p. 157.
• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
• Walther Karl Zülch: Frankfurt artist 1223–1700. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1935 ( publications of the Historical Commission of the City of Frankfurt am Main 10).

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1. ↑ Barefoot Book 1500: "12 guilders 7 schilling 3 bright master Hansen in the tramlines in front of Steyn color and some color me painting the windows in the refendale and on the cell windows and sprinkling several dore and the letters above dye cells on the sleepy cover and also the refendal to paint and to paint, in St. Anna myt yrem lineage, nyt dar yn is not counted. "