Hans Peisser

Hans Peisser (* around 1506 in Hassfurt / Lower Franconia; † after 1571 , location unknown) was a German carver and architect of the Renaissance .

biography

Friesacher city fountain

Putto in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg

Hans Peisser moved to Nuremberg at a young age and acquired Nuremberg citizenship there on November 17, 1526 (Nuremberg Council Leaves). After Heinz Stafski he was probably a pupil of Veit Stoss , from whom he shows himself stylistically influenced.

A medal by Ludwig Neufarers from 1536 shows the artist, who was around thirty. Hans Peisser gave up his citizenship in Nuremberg in 1559 and worked for various royal courts (Pomerania, Bohemia, Kremsmünster Abbey).

Works

His main works include the cast model for the goose man's fountain in Nuremberg, around 1550, which is in the Fembohaus city museum there, as well as the wooden model for the putti fountain in the Nuremberg town hall courtyard , 1557, which is in the Germanic National Museum; Both fountains were cast in bronze by Pankraz Labenwolf . Other works:

• Redeemer group in the high altar of the parish church in Grünau / Upper Austria
• Planet god fountain in the courtyard of the Linz country house
• "Singing fountain" in the garden of the Belvedere in Prague (collaboration)
• City fountain in Friesach (Carinthia)
• several mostly signed small sculptural works (plaques; medals)

literature

• Klaus Pechstein, Der Bildschnitzer Hans Peisser, in: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1973, pp. 84–106
• Klaus Pechstein, On the altar sculptures and art chamber pieces by Hans Peisser, in: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1974, pp. 38–47
• Klaus Pechstein, Hans Peisser. Model carver for Hans Vischer and Pankraz Labenwolf, in: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseums 1990, pp. 84–106

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Stafski, Hans Peisser as a major sculptor in: Indicator of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum 1951, pp 11-16