Hans Heinrich Wägmann

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One of the panel paintings by Hans Heinrich Wägmann on the Lucerne Chapel Bridge

Hans Heinrich Wägmann (born October 12, 1557 in Zurich , † around 1627 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss painter, draftsman and cartographer of the Renaissance .

Life

Hans Heinrich Wägmann was born in Zurich in 1557 as the son of the trader Heinrich Wägmann and Katharina Stampfer. Nothing is known about Wägmann's artistic training. Jos Murer or Jakob Clauser are often named as Wägmann's teachers , but there are no reliable findings on this. Wägmann's earliest work, an ink drawing, is dated 1578. Around 1580 Wägmann joined the Meisenzunft in Zurich, shortly afterwards he began a career as a painter and worked at the Oberdorftor in Zurich - together with the painter Heinrich Ban . Stays in Basel and Alsace followed .

In 1582 Wägmann married Margaretha Geilinger from Lucerne; the marriage resulted in four sons. The family moved to Lucerne and Wägmann converted to the Catholic faith . In the period that followed, Wägmann created a choir panel for the Marienkapelle Eigenhal (lost) and in 1589 the depiction of “Riese von Reiden” in the Lucerne town hall tower. As a reward, Wägmann was granted citizenship . In 1590 he was commissioned to paint three altars for the Jesuit church St. Michael in Lucerne. In 1597, the artist and Renward Cysat created a map of the city and the surrounding area for the City Council of Lucerne. In 1604 Wägmann was commissioned to draw up a map of the Zeil rule . From 1602 it was registered in the Zuger Buch of the St. Luke Association of Craftsmen. From 1606 he worked together with his sons working in his workshop on the panel paintings for the Chapel Bridge in Lucerne. In 1617 the two altar panels “Annunciation to Maria” and “Maria with Jesus and Johannes” were created for the parish church of St. Wendelin in Greppen and are now exhibited in the Lucerne Art Museum.

Wägmann's date of death is not known, as there are no death records from the city of Lucerne from this time. His most recent works are dated to 1626. On November 11, 1628, one of his sons transferred money from his father's estate to a brother.

plant

In addition to religious scenes and allegories, Wägmann's subjects included situations from Swiss history. Wägmann made a name for himself primarily as a glass painter, but especially as a draftsman and cartographer. He made Lucerne one of the most important centers of Swiss drawing for a while.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1945: Old Swiss stained glass , Zurich City Museum of Decorative Arts
  • 1981: Zurich art after the Reformation. Hans Asper and his time , Helmhaus Zurich
  • 1986: Renaissance painting in Lucerne 1560–1650 , Wyher Castle , Ettiswil
  • 2005: From Graf to Mengs. Master drawings from four centuries , ETH graphic collection, Zurich,
  • 2006: Schwyz Treasury. Art and cultural treasures from the Canton of Schwyz , Forum of Swiss History, Schwyz
  • 2009: From Dürer to Gober. 101 master drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett , Kunstmuseum Basel
  • 2009: Shining examples. Drawings for glass paintings from the Renaissance and Mannerism , Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
  • 2009: passages and relics. Works from the 16th and 17th centuries from the collection , Kunstmuseum Luzern

literature

  • Wägmann, Hans Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 17 .
  • Johann Rudolf and Hans Heinrich Füssli: General artist lexicon. Part 2, Drell, Füßli and Compagnie, Zurich, 1820, p. 4063.
  • Friedrich Thöne: Hans Heinrich Wägmann as a draftsman. A contribution to Lucerne's art of drawing and painting from Wägmann to Storer. In: Swiss Institute for Art Research: Annual report and yearbook 1966. pp. 108–153.
  • Heinz Horat and Thomas Klöti: The Lucerne Map by Hans Heinrich Wägmann and Renward Cysat 1597–1613. In: The history friend. No. 139, 1986, pp. 47-100.
  • Thomas Klöti: The oldest map of the Canton of Lucerne by Hans Heinrich Wägmann and Renward Cysat, 1597–1613: the original drawing and the replicas. Cartographica Helvetica, 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wägmann's biography at the Lucerne Art Museum.
personal data
SURNAME Wägmann, Hans Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagmann, Johann Heinrich; Weggmann, Hanns Heinrich; Wegmann, Johann Heinrich; Wegmann, Johann Heinric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter, draftsman and cartographer of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1557
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH around 1627
Place of death Lucerne