Hans Meiger from Werde
Hans Meiger von Werde , known as Hans Hammer (also Hammerer ; * 1440–1445; † summer 1519 ) was a German stonemason , master builder and architect . With his decorative design, he is considered one of the great designers of the late Gothic . Its design language is clear and understandable, its craftsmanship is of high quality.
Life
Hammer is mentioned in the lodge book of the stonemasons of Strasbourg 1471, probably the year in which he came to the reform-loving city on the Rhine as a journeyman . According to Otte , von Werde was born in Franconia and previously worked in Wertheim and Basel . At this time, Strasbourg was considered to be a trendsetter in terms of stonemasonry regulations , which, based on this, served as a model for all such regulations in the German Empire. In 1482 he got the citizenship of the city. At the same time he became head of the brotherhood. From 1478 to 1481 Hammer stayed in Vienna and Hungary. On his return to Strasbourg he was first appointed parlier and in 1482 master of the cathedral builder , but lost this post again in 1490 when it became known that he had also unsuccessfully sought this position in Milan .
With the support of the Strasbourg Bishop Johann Manderscheid-Blankenheim , he moved to Saverne , 40 kilometers away , where he had work on the Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité collegiate church . The extent to which this building was carried out by him can no longer be determined today, but the pulpit there is certainly a work of Hammer, there is his stonemason HMH 1495 . From 1513 until his death, Hammer von Werde worked again at the Strasbourg Cathedral as the main person in charge of the cathedral construction works. Hans Hammer left behind an extensive sample book, which is now in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel.
He was married to Margarethe, daughter of the stonemason Hans von Erfort , who was also based in Strasbourg, and had at least three children together, of which Friedrich also became a stonemason. The other two children, whose year of birth is unknown, were named Michel and Barbara.
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The tabernacle of Strasbourg, which has not survived the course of time, and the pulpit in the nave, both works before his appointment as master , are now considered von Werde's oldest work . This pulpit is considered to be one of the most beautiful and richly decorated of the late Gothic . It was completed in 1485, one year after he put it on paper. The drawing is exhibited today at the Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame . The parapet protrudes over the feet on an octagonal floor plan. Numerous, openwork ribbons testify to the high artistic and manual skills of the master.
After his appointment as master, von Werde sought to build the Strasbourg south tower. Architectural drawings also exist in the Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame . His design was based heavily on the existing north tower, but he increased the proportion of tracery and decorative elements, but his work was soon stopped and later canceled again. The Small Treasury , a room that is located high above the entrance portal between the two towers and was the repository of all the important documents of the Dombauhütte, also goes back to von Werde's planning .
Von Werde's work away from the Strasbourg cathedral led to the construction of the Trinity Chapel in the municipal church of Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune protestant . It was completed in 1492 and is also signed by him. The font there also bears his signature. Subsequently, at the request of the Strasbourg Bishop Albrecht von Bayern , von Werde built the Chapel of Our Lady to the north of the nave of the Notre-Dame church in Saverne. His pulpit there dates from 1495. It is much more simply designed, but clearly bears its design in terms of overall concept and filigree. His stonemason's mark can be seen at the transition from the steps to the pulpit. A rather unusual job is the construction of the parish church in Fénétrange northwest of Saverne, which today belongs to Lorraine . The design of the structure belongs to the conventional-architectural, village-like structures with the simplest structural elements of that time.
In 1515, during von Werde's second career in Strasbourg, he built the St. Martin Chapel north of the nave, which is now consecrated to St. Laurentius, in order to counterbalance the St. Catherine's Chapel to the south. This was built a hundred years earlier. The design of the two chapels appears very uniform with their diamond vaults and the separate diamonds in the central axis. His attention to detail marks his last great work. The ability to design the ceiling seems limitless. He is thus in the tradition of other great master builders of the Strasbourg School such as Jodok Dotzinger (1400 / 10–1468) and Alberlin Jörg (1420–1494).
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Colum Hourihane (Ed.): The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture , Volume 2, Oxford University Press 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-539536-5 , pp. 282f.
literature
Alphonse Adam: Hans Hammerer or Hammer in Zabern. In: Communications from the Society for the Preservation of Historical Monuments in Alsace. Volume II, Volume Eighteenth, Strasbourg 1897, pp. 523-531
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Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Otte : Handbook of the church art-archeology of the German Middle Ages. Volume 2, Leipzig, 1884, p. 519
- ↑ Géza Entz: Le séjour en Hongrie de Hans Hammer, future maître d'œuvre de la cathédrale de Strasbourg. Bulletin de la Cathédrale de Strasbourg, XX (1992): 7-10
- ↑ http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?dir=mss/114-1-extrav
- ^ François Joseph Fuchs: Introduction to 'sample book' de Hans Hammer. Bulletin de la Cathédrale de Strasbourg, XX (1992): 11-69.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Become, Hans Meiger from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hammer, Hans; Hammerer, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stonemason and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1440 and 1445 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1519 |