Hans Kamberger

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Hans Kamberger (called Gleser , also Hans Konberger , * in the 15th century ; † before November 11, 1546 ) was a German glass painter .

Life

Hans Kamberger, also called Gleser , was a son of Jakob Gleser from Heidelberg and probably a nephew of the sculptor Nikolaus Gleser. A first name can be found in a contract with Count Krafft VI. von Hohenlohe , who had a church window and a coat of arms made for him by “Hans Gleser von Heidelberg, Jacob Gleser's Sone”. This contract was signed in 1499. Another name can be found in a letter from 1507, in which it is documented that Duke Ulrich von Württemberg paid “Hansen Konbergern, glaser zu Haidelberg” a window for the Backnang collegiate church. Finally, there is a mention of Kamberger from the year 1509. At that time he appeared in Speyer together with Lorenz Lechler as guarantor for the deceased Hans Seyfer and advised his brother Lenhart on the continuation of the work on the Speyer Mount of Olives , which the surprisingly deceased sculptor was unfinished had left behind. Perhaps he was responsible for the colored glass pictures in the dormers above the Mount of Olives, which were praised as a special feature of this work. In 1516 he was finally exempted from all civil duties in Heidelberg due to his services, but not from paying taxes, and in 1523 he was involved in the campaign against Franz von Sickingen . In 1528 he was the organizer and administrator of the new palace building in Philippsburg for a year and finally in 1535 "Hans Kambergern, gnant Glesern" was appointed as master of the Electoral Palatinate .

Hans Kamberger was married twice, his first marriage to Brigitta Winther, the daughter of Heilbronn councilor and judge Heinrich Winther, known as Meng, and his second marriage to Elizabeth, Ulrich Nenninger's widow. She was a daughter of Hans Riesser and a niece of Kamberger's first wife. In 1546, this second wife of Kamberger returned a lease that had been signed with the Augustinian monastery in Heidelberg. Since her husband was no longer mentioned in this legal transaction, the date can be assumed to be the terminus ante quem for the death of Hans Kamberger.

Works

Anna von Memmersweiler and Dietrich von Plieningen

In addition to the works already mentioned by Kamberger, two double portraits are to be performed:

The pictures of the founders of the humanist Dietrich von Plieningen and his wife Anna von Memmersweiler from the parish church in Kleinbottwar are almost certainly attributed to Hans Kamberger. They are now in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg and have the inventory number MM109. The 47 cm high and 37 cm wide double portrait was created in Heidelberg around 1500. It was put together from white and colored smelted glass and painted with black solder , silver yellow and iron red. Dietrich von Plieningen and his wife are both shown looking to the right as seen by the observer, which is related to the original positioning of the late Gothic portrait in the northern choir window of the Kleinbottwarer Church, so that the sitters' eyes were originally directed towards the choir axis or the main altar . The couple is shown in bust portraits, flanked by two pillars that support an arcade of branches from which the coats of arms of the two sitters hang. Her forearms rest with folded hands on a stone parapet that closes the picture at the bottom. Below is a plaque with the inscription “theoderit (us) de plieningen leg [um professor et / eques] assessor iudicy camere re [alis et uxor sua / legitima] anna de mem (m) erswiler ha [nc fenestram in dei et sanc ] toru (m) honore [m] fieri cura (ve) ru (n) ta [nno 1499] ”. The so-called Gotha lovers , who are about 15 years older and were also created in Heidelberg, can be taken as a model for this donor disc .

Friedrich the Elder of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Sophia Jagiellonka

Another double portrait of Kamberger was created for the town church in Langenburg . It shows the Margrave Friedrich the Elder of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Sophia Jagiellonka . The couple kneel with folded hands, each person is fluttered by a tape. The ribbon around the margrave bears the text “domine, ne longe facias auxilium tuum a me”, while the ribbon around Sophia Jagiellonka invokes the “virgo omnium sanctissima” with the request “intercede pro me apud dominum”.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Thieme-Becker , a collaboration of the man, who is listed there as Hans Gleser, on the Speyr Mount of Olives was shown as undetectable; the article about him even contains the sentence: "Whether G. was an artist at all is unknown."
  2. ^ Hanns Hubach, Hans Seyfer: Family - Friends - Colleagues. Study on the origin and social environment of a late Gothic sculptor , in: Andreas Pfeiffer, Karl Halbauer (eds.), Hans Seyfer. Sculptor on the Neckar and Middle Rhine around 1500 , Heidelberg 2002, pp. 36–51, especially p. 47 ff.
  3. ↑ Object catalog of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
  4. ↑ Fluttering tape, on www.renaissance-port.de . There, the year 1492 is given for the work, while the work itself shows the year MCCCCLXXXXIX (1499) in Roman numerals for the margrave and the year 1499 in Arabic numerals for his wife.
personal data
SURNAME Kamberger, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konberger, Hans; Kamberger called Glesner, Hans; Glesner, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH before November 11, 1546