Hans Pfister (eraser)

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Hans Pfister (* around 1585 in Tübingen , † 1653 ) was a württembergischer residing in Tübingen Buchbinder , Petschierstecher and eraser . He was an older brother of Matthäus Pfister , who worked in the same field.

Life

Hans Pfister was a son of the Tübingen bookbinder of the same name († 1602). It was first mentioned in 1598. At this time he had to do the bookbinding apprenticeship, in 1602 he was on the wanderings that were customary after learning the trade. He was in Austria . Because of his faith he could not stay there in the long run and returned to Tübingen, where he settled in 1604. In 1607, Duke Johann Friedrich gave him the privilege of cutting seals in addition to his bookbinding trade . He wanted to offer seals made of brass and steel at the weekly market in Tübingen. The need existed because even common citizens who belonged to the council or the court needed a seal ring or a seal for their legal transactions and letters. He must have learned to cut a seal while cutting a book cover. The envious Tübingen goldsmiths successfully prevented him from doing so, although he did not want to make any silver or gold seals reserved for them. However, Pfister received (documented evidence in the years 1627–1634 and 1652/1653) many orders from the Württemberg court and the administration of the estates . He made “Secrete, Sigille and Sticks for Schaupfennige and Taler ” for them. He also engraved decorations such as coats of arms and lettering on princely tin coffins .

As an etcher he is known for his southern view of Tübingen from 1620, which he made for the publisher Johann Conrad Geysler. It is not known whether he used a preliminary drawing. Compared to the etched cityscapes by Jonathan Sauter , which were actually made a little earlier, this one seems rough and awkward. Pfister had problems with the perspective and the spatial representation.

Hans Pfister's son, Hans Georg, had completed an apprenticeship in goldsmithing in Ulm between 1637 and 1641 .

Well-known work

  • 1620 Die Löbliche Statt Tübingen (south view of Tübingen known under the name of the publisher Johann Conrad Geysler, etching, City Museum Tübingen )

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance ... , p. 427
  2. ↑ a b Werner Fleischhauer: Barock ... , p. 101
  3. ↑ See Adolf Häberle : Die Goldschmiede zu Ulm , Verlag des Museum der Stadt Ulm 1934, (= Ulmer Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte 10), p. 53.

literature

  • Werner Fleischhauer : Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1971
  • Werner Fleischhauer: The beginnings of the Tübingen university portrait collection - a contribution to the history of painting of the late Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg . In: Werner Fleischhauer u. a .: New contributions to the history of the south-west of Germany. Festschrift for Max Miller , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1962, pp. 197–216
  • Werner Fleischhauer: Baroque in the Duchy of Württemberg , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1958 (= publication of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg), p. 101
  • Max Schefold : Old Views from Württemberg , Vol. 1–2, Stuttgart 1956–1957, Fig. 327/8 (No. 9253, 9343f, 1490)
personal data
SURNAME Pfister, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfister, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wuerttemberg bookbinder, Petschier engraver and eraser
DATE OF BIRTH around 1585
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH 1653
Place of death Tübingen