Hans Guldenmund

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The prisoners complain . Design by Erhard Schoen, text by Hans Sachs

Hans Guldenmund or Hans Guldenmundt (* in the 15th century; † November 28, 1560 in Nuremberg ) was a German printer and letter painter . He was active in Nuremberg in the 16th century.

Life

Nuremberg was a center of printing and publishing in the 15th and 16th centuries. One of "the most active Nuremberg picture sheet sellers of the 16th century was [...] Hans Guldenmund, who had his business" at the meat banks "."

The first mentions of Guldenmund refer to his work as a letter painter and illuminist. For Anton Tucher he was supposed to “cross out” a Theuerdank in 1518 and 1519 , at the same time the order to illuminate two prayer books from Koberger's office - also for Tucher. Guldemund also worked at times as a freelance printer and publisher. In 1521 he made a trip to Speyer .

It is unclear whether he was involved in the production of templates or printing blocks himself. However, there is evidence that he employed various Nuremberg small masters. Among them were z. B. Hans Brosamer and Peter Flötner , Georg Pencz , Erhard Schoen , Virgil Solis , the brothers Barthel and Hans Sebald Beham and various form cutters whose names are not known. Guldenmund's talent probably lay in tracking down current topics for his religious and political "letters". He imposed few restrictions and often had crude or filthy caricatures printed. Sometimes he also spread plagiarism . This unscrupulous approach led to several clashes with the authorities.

In 1521 Guldenmund came into conflict with the Nuremberg Council for the first time. Karl Schottenloher gives the reason: he had "the polder on a cow" painted and printed and was supposed to go to the dungeon for two weeks. At that time, however, the imperial councilor Johann Stabius stood up for Guldenmund and ensured that he was released from the penalty.

He was warned several times in the following years, prints and printing blocks were confiscated, and Guldenmund even had to serve prison terms. In 1527 Guldenmund got into trouble because he had used verses by Hans Sachs in his Wunderliche Prophesung von das Babstum and had not submitted the book for checking before publication. The plant was confiscated. Contrafactur shared this fate as the Türck Wien documented in 1529 , for which Nikolaus Meldemann already had a privilege, as did the leaflet Ein newes Lied made by the Münster statute in 1535 . After he had been banned from the city for two years in 1532 because of his offensive way of life, he was accused in June 1535 of spreading nine “büchlin mit schendlichen in common”, which is why he was taken into custody. Some letters against the baptist and other pamphlets were also confiscated. However, Guldenmund was compensated for some loss of earnings through such confiscations. According to Thieme / Becker , he was allowed to print the prophecy a few months after the confiscation, albeit without the Hans Sachs verses and the interpretations of Osiander . He received financial compensation for the confiscated copies. He was forbidden to reprint Dürer's triumphal chariot of Emperor Maximilian following a complaint from Dürer's widow, but in 1532 he received financial compensation for this too, and in 1537 he was able to publish the cut after all, whereupon he sent a copy to the city council in thanks adored this work. In 1541 he received a dedication of four guilders from the council for a view of Algiers , and in 1543 another dedication followed, this time in the amount of ten guilders, for the so-called Kaisercontrafactur, a print of Burkhard Waldis ' origins vnd herkumen of the first twelve old ones King and Princes of the German Nation .

Guldenmund had successes, among other things, with the series that he brought out. Some of these were also signed with HG or G in H, but the templates did not come from Guldenmund: The woodcut series with Landsknechts pictures was based on designs by Sebald Beham , Peter Flötner and Erhard Schoen, the 16 woodcuts on which the leaders of the Turkish Heeres are to be seen, were designed by Sebald Beham, Michael Ostendorfer , Erhard Schoen and Stoer, the princely dance goes back to models by Brosamer and Schäufelin and the origin and herkumen of the first twelve old king and princes of the German nation comes from Waldis. The woodcut portrait of the shoemaker poet Hans Sachs by Michel Ostendorfer is counted among the most important products of his company in the DNB article, but Schottenloher believes that the most famous sheet among his portraits is The venerable Doctoris Martin Lutheri Christian farewell from this world .

Guldenmund was never referred to as a form cutter, but had business relationships with people in this profession, such as Hieronymus Andreae and Hanns Schwarzenberger .

In 1557 Guldenmund applied to be accepted into the Twelve Brothers House in Allerheyligen, which, according to Thieme / Becker, was "apparently granted". There is a contrary statement in the NDB : He was apparently not granted admission because there was no corresponding entry in the book of brothers.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Guldenmund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Karl Schottenloher: Flyer and newspaper. A guide through the printed Tagesschrifttum , Berlin 1922, p. 144 ( digitized ).
  2. ^ Joachim Heinrich Jäck, Joseph Heller: Contributions to art and literary history . Riegel, 1822, p. 99ff.
  3. ↑ Triomfwagen van keizer Maximiliaan on www.rijksmuseum.nl .
  4. ↑ Des Hanns Sachsen bildnuss on www.zeno.org .
personal data
SURNAME Guldenmund, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guldenmundt, Hans; Güldenmundt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German book printer and letter painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1560
Place of death Nuremberg