Hans Hesse (painter)

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Annaberg mountain altar by Hans Hesse

Hans Hesse (* before 1497, † after 1539) was a German panel and glass painter of the late Gothic and early Renaissance .

Live and act

Little is known about the life of the painter, who was probably born around 1470. Based on his painting style, it is assumed that he received his training in Nuremberg (close to the Wolgemut workshop ) or in the Nuremberg area. Research has not yet proven whether it comes from this area. Hesse's stay in Saxony can only be proven for the years from 1497 to 1539.

The first work that can definitely be attributed to Hans Hesse is a painted winged altar , completed in 1497 , which is now in the village church in Dittmannsdorf in the Erzgebirge district. In 1500 or 1501, Hesse settled in Zwickau in order to run a workshop there that can be traced back to around 1506. During this time he got to know the carver Peter Breuer , who also worked in Zwickau , with whom he executed the high altar of the Johanniskirche in Chemnitz , consecrated in 1505 .

Hesse probably moved to Annaberg in Alberta in 1506 , where a man named Hans Hesse was convicted of manslaughter that same year. It can no longer be clarified whether the painter is identical to the convict of the same name. It is only known that Hesse settled a short time later in the neighboring, Ernestine Buchholz , where he was safe from possible pursuits from Annaberg.

In Buchholz he achieved some prosperity by buying and selling houses. He became a respected citizen of this city who remained in demand as a painter and carried out numerous commissions in the following years, including the Wolfgang altar in Buchholz . His main work is the painting of the Annaberg mountain altar in St. Anne's Church , consecrated in 1521 , which he carried out in 1522/23. The informative depictions of miner's life in the Ore Mountains on the back of the reredos are particularly famous . After 1524 he worked mainly for Bohemian clients. For example, the Barbara altar in Želina (Seelau), the altar by Vintiřov (Winterritz, today in Radonice u Kadaně ) or the winged altar by Horní Mokropsy.

The last evidence of his activity (around 1530) can be found with a saint's wing in Teplice and the predella of the Švihovský family (today in the Prague National Gallery ). Hans Hesse was last mentioned in the files in 1539. Due to his advanced age for the time, it can be assumed that he died a little later.

Works

  • Annaberg-Buchholz, Evangelical town church Sankt Annen
    • Saint Catherine , patron saint of miners; probably part of the epitaph of the founder Gurlitt
    • Annaberg mountain altar , around 1520–1522
    • Saint Catherine with the Pflugk family , around 1515–1520; probably wing of the former family altar of the Pflugk family
    • Mary with the child standing on a crescent moon , around 1515–1520; probably wing of the former family altar of the Pflugk family
  • Annaberg-Buchholz, Franciscan Church
    • Saint Veronica with the handkerchief of Christ held by two angels , around 1523/24; Crowning of the former high altar of the Franciscan Church in Annaberg
    • Saints Clare and Ludwig , around 1523/24; Altar wing of the former high altar of the Franciscan Church in Annaberg
    • Saints Margaret and Christophorus , around 1523/24; Altar wing of the former high altar of the Franciscan Church in Annaberg
  • Annaberg-Buchholz, St. Katharinen Church in Buchholz
    • Wolfgang altar , around 1515
  • Brus,
    • Winteritzer Marienaltar, winged altar, donated by Apel (V.) Vitzthum von Apolda in 1526, Church of the Assumption of Mary in Most (Brüx) Czech Republic
  • Chemnitz, Schlossberg Museum
    • The saints Wolfgang von Regensburg (?), Andreas and Jakobus d. Ä. / Saints Katharina, Margaretha, Barbara and the founder with their daughters , around 1505; Wing of the former high altar of the Johanniskirche in Chemnitz
    • Madonna on the crescent moon with Maria Magdalena , around 1503, from the Marienkirche Zwickau (property of the Staatl. Kunstsammlungen, Dresden)
  • Chemnitz-Ebersdorf, Evangelical Parish Church & Former Collegiate Church of Our Dear Women
    • High altar , around 1513
  • Dittmannsdorf, village church
    • Winged altar , 1497
  • Goslar, Jakobikirche
    • Pieta , around 1510
  • Leipzig, Museum of Arts and Crafts
    • The Saints Andrew and James d. J. , around 1504; formerly the inside of the wing of the high altar of the Nikolaikirche in Zwickau
    • Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist , around 1504; formerly the altar wing of the high altar of the Nikolaikirche in Zwickau
  • Meissen, Albrechtsburg
    • Epitaph of the Gülden family with Mary on the crescent moon and St. Magdalena , 1503; Permanent loan from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
  • Plauen, Neumark Church
    • Donor couple , 1498; Stained glass, window
    • Clergyman , 1498; Stained glass, window
  • Raudnitz an der Elbe, Roudnice Provost Church
    • Twelve wings of a former altar, 1522
  • Zwickau, St. Mary's Cathedral
    • Epitaph of Baldassar Teufel with “Ecce homo” , 1500

literature

  • Hans Hesse . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 590-591 .
  • Historical guide - sites and monuments of history in the districts of Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Stadt. Urania-Verlag Leipzig Jena Berlin, 1st edition 1981.
  • Art monuments in the GDR - districts Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Leipzig - A picture manual , Edition Leipzig, 2nd improved edition 1989, ISBN 3-361-00249-4 .
  • Hans Burkhardt : Hans Hesse in Annaberg-Buchholz. Old and new from the life of the famous painter. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . Issue 1/1971, pp. 1–5.
  • Wolfgang Buschmann: The Annaberg mountain altar - From the miners and their painter Hans Hesse. The children's book publisher Berlin, 1982.
  • Walter Fellmann: Saxony Lexicon. Koehler & Amelang Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Munich Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-7338-0234-9 .
  • Marianne Mehling (ed.): Knaur's cultural guide in color - Saxony. Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., Munich 1991, ISBN 3-426-26488-9 .
  • Ingo Sandner: Hans Hesse - A late Gothic painter in Saxony. VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1983.
  • Gotthard B. Schicker : Hans Hesse or Hannß Heße. In: Dicknischl - Erzgebirge people from then and now. Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Marienberg mbH, 2008, ISBN 978-3-931770-76-1 .
  • A. Bonchino: La miniera e l'arte nel Rinascimento. Sull'iconografia mineraria tedesca dal tardo Gotico al Bergaltar di Hans Hesse. In: Rinascimento. , ser. II, Volume L, 2010, pp. 237-261.

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personal data
SURNAME Hesse, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the late Gothic and early Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH before 1497
DATE OF DEATH after 1539