Hans Lützelburger

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Peasants fighting against naked men according to master NH 1522.

Hans Lützelburger (Leuczellburger), also Hans Franck (* around 1495 - † June 1526 in Basel ), was a German form cutter , known for the woodcuts he had made for Hans Holbein .

Life

The light of the gospel according to Hans Holbein 1526.
The abbot and death after Hans Holbein 1538.

Little is known of Hans Lützelburger, who presumably came from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Lützelburg). His name as a form cutter appears for the first time in Augsburg , where he signed a woodcut fight between peasants and naked men with Hanns Leuczelburger Furmschnider . Around 1522 he came to Basel , presumably via Mainz , where he worked for various Basel printers such as Thomas Wolff , Adam Petri , Johann Froben and Andreas Cratander . The first known Basel work is a title frame for the Luther Bible , which was published by Adam Petri in 1522. Most of the other woodcuts made in Basel are based on templates by Hans Holbein. His last works include two woodcuts that were created for the Zurich printer Christoph Froschauer based on templates by Holbein in 1526 : The Light of the Gospel and The Indulgence Trade . The series of pictures of the dead, which he made for the Lyon printer Melchior Trechsel, remained partly unfinished and was first published in 1538. Lützelburger died shortly before June 23, 1526 in Basel.

Because of the quality of the execution of important templates, Lützelburger is one of the greatest form cutters of the 16th century.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hieronymus, NDB 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Lützelburger, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franck, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shape cutter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
DATE OF DEATH June 1526
Place of death Basel