Hans Kemmer

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The married couple Elisabeth and Karsten Timmermann kneel before Jesus as Salvator mundi , by Hans Kemmer (1537)
Hans Kemmer: Portrait of the Lübeck merchant Hans Sonnenschein , 1534
Infrared reflectography of a painted wedding bowl for the Lübeck councilor Karsten Timmermann and his wife in the museum in Güstrow Castle, inscribed "HK" and dated 1540

Hans Kemmer (* around 1495; † August 2, 1561 in Lübeck ), also known as Johann Kemmer , was a German Renaissance painter .

Life

His training was probably around 1515-1520 in the Wittenberg workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder . On October 5, 1522, Kemmer is recorded in the Lübeck Niederstadtbuch as a member of the painter's office when the mountain drivers commissioned him for a winged altar. He had probably married Anneke, the widow of the Lübeck painter Hermann Wickhorst, shortly before, and took over his workshop.

The first work he knew, the Bergenfahrer altar completed in 1524 , burned in the Marienkirche during the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 . At the time of this first confirmed order, the Lübeck art market was still in full bloom. Kemmer obviously earned well and bought the house at Königstrasse 34 as early as 1528 . Two altars from this period are Kemmer's sacred works of art in the collection of the St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck.

With the Reformation introduced in Lübeck in 1530 , the orders for works of art of this kind declined. Kemmer, on the other hand, painted a Protestant program picture with Christ and the Adulteress in the same year on behalf of the businessman Johann Wigerinck . In addition, he successfully switched to portrait painting . The most distinguished Lübeck families were among his clients. Several portraits of Lübeck's mayors in the mayor's gallery in the town hall are attributed to him. He became the senior man of the painter's office several times and signed with "HK". After the death of his first wife, he married Margarete Berndes in 1543.

Kemmer was buried in the Katharinenkirche . His daughter Elsabe married the printer Johann Balhorn .

Works

Museum property

In churches

Lost

  • Altar shrine in the Bergen driver's chapel in Lübeck's Marienkirche for the mountain driver Tideke Roleves, who died in 1520 . Commissioned by the painter Johann Kemmer on October 9, 1522 based on his sketch. Completion in March 1524. The shrine is said to have looked like this: The main piece showed a carved image of the Holy Family; the inside of one wing was also carved and showed three individual figures (Rochus, Antonius and Sebastian). The tablet was framed in two rows with statuettes of the twelve apostles. The second wing showed a painting of the Descent from the Cross. With the shrine closed, the three great male saints and the three female images (Barbara, Katharina and Dorothea) stood opposite one another. The plant was destroyed in a fire.

literature

  • Friedrich Bruns : The Lübeck mountain drivers and their chronology (=  Hanseatic historical sources . New series, volume 2 ). Pass & Garleb, Berlin 1900, Die Bergenfahrerkompagnie. Church Relations and Church Foundations. No. 7, p. CXXXI and 298 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Fritz Hirsch, Friedrich Bruns, Gerhard Schaumann: Petrikirche, Marienkirche, Heil.-Geist-Hospital . B. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 228–229 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - With images between the pages).
  • K. Schäfer: The Lübeck painter Hans Kemmer . In: monthly journals for art history . tape 10 , booklet 1. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1908, p. 1–7 , images on plates 1–4 , JSTOR : 24495999 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Kemmer, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 135-136 .
  • A. Bruns (Ed.): Lübeck CVs. 1993, ISBN 3-529-02729-4 .
  • Christoph Emmendörffer: Hans Kemmer - A Lübeck painter of the Reformation period. Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-363-00670-5 .
  • Theodor Gaedertz : Johann Kemmer, the master of the St. Olavaltar in the Marienkirche in Lübeck. Leipzig 1901.
  • Gustav Lindtke: Lübeck Reformation Art - To the pictures by Hans Kemmer in the St. Annen Museum. In: The car . 1961, pp. 21-30.
  • Jan Friedrich Richter (Ed.): Lübeck 1500 - art metropolis in the Baltic Sea region. Catalog, Imhoff, Petersberg 2015 (Nos. 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71).
  • Rita Kauder: The three Protestant religious pictures by Hans Kemmer in the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck . In: ZLGAG 62, 1982, pp. 83-101.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A copy by the Lübeck painter Wilhelm Schodde is in Trondheim Cathedral
  2. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten of December 20, 2018
  3. ↑ Auction catalog
personal data
SURNAME Kemmer, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kemmer, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Renaissance painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1495
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1561
Place of death Lübeck