Hans Lützelburger
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
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
- Giulia Bartrum: German Renaissance prints 1490-1550 . London 1995, ISBN 9780714126043 .
- Frank Hieronymus: Upper Rhine Book Illustration, Volume 2: Basel Book Illustration 1500-1545 . Basel 1984.
- Frank Hieronymus: Lützelburger (Leuczellburger, called Franck), Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 488 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Campbell Dodgson: Hans Lützelburger and the Master NH In: The Burlington Magazine , 10/47 (1907), pp. 319-322. JSTOR
- Eduard His: Lützelburger, Hans . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 718 f.
- Hanspeter Landolt: Lützelburger, Hans. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Christian Rümelin: Lützelburger, Hans. In: Sikart
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hieronymus, NDB 1987.
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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 |