Hans Michel (sculptor)

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The statue of Lucius Munatius Plancus in the courtyard of the Basel town hall
Jupiter -Tosro by Hans Michel

Hans Michel (mentioned in Basel from 1574 until about 1587 ) was a from the Alsace originating Swiss sculptor .

Live and act

Hans Michel comes from Strasbourg and received citizenship of Basel free of charge in 1574 due to his artistry. In return, in 1580, he donated the statue of Munatius Plancus to the city in the courtyard of Basel's town hall . His other works include the relief of St. Fridolin with death in the gable of the monastery building in Säckingen (1575), statues of Saint Mauritius (1577) and the Madonna (1582) as fountain figures in Delémont , the epitaph of Anna Alexandra von Rappoltstein, b. Countess Fürstenberg, in Rappoltsweiler as well as a Jupiter torso for the lawyer and collector Basilius Amerbach (around 1585/1587, today in the Basel Historical Museum ).

Hans Michel is possibly identical to the sculptor Hans Michel Egner, who worked in Strasbourg in the later 16th century. His son Balthasar Michel was also a sculptor.

literature

  • CH Baer: The art monuments of the Canton of Basel-Stadt I. History and cityscape. Fortifications. Area and Rhine bridge; City Hall and State Archives (= Swiss Art Monuments. Volume 3). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1932.
  • Carl Brun (Red.): Swiss Artist Lexicon. Vol. 2, p. 406.
  • Stefan Hess : The search for the city founder. In: humanism. 56 Approaches to a Living Concept. Basel 2000, pp. 198-201.
  • Elisabeth Landolt: artist and client in Basel in the late 16th century. In: Unser Kunstdenkmäler 29 (1978), pp. 311-314, 317, 321. online
  • Elisabeth Landolt: The statue of Munatius Plancus and the sculptor Hans Michel. In: Basler Stadtbuch 1980 , pp. 235–240.
  • Anne Nagel, Martin Möhle, Brigitte Meles: The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Stadt , Vol. VII The old town of Grossbasel I - secular buildings. Bern 2006.
  • Hans Rott : Sources and research on southwest German and Swiss art history in the XV. and XVI. Century III: The Upper Rhine, Sources II. Stuttgart 1936
  • Rose Marie Schulz-Rehberg : Architects from Gothic to Baroque. Building in Basel from 1280 to 1780 . Basel 2019. ISBN 978-3-85616-894-0
  • Gustaf Adolf Wanner : All about Basel's monuments. Basel 1975.

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personal data
SURNAME Michel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian-Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1574
DATE OF DEATH after 1587