Hans Ryssenberch

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Hans Ryssenberch (* unknown; † 1499 ) was a goldsmith working in Estonia .

life and work

Hans Ryssenberch the Elder (also Ryssenberg ) was a citizen of Tallinn from 1450 . From 1450 until his death in 1499 he was a master goldsmith in the city, and from 1492 to 1497 head of the goldsmith's shop. In the years from 1467 to 1470 and again in 1499, Ryssenberch held the office of Aldermann, the influential Kanutigilde , in which the members of the higher trades were united. From 1488 to 1492 Ryssenberch was with several apprentices in Moscow in the service of Grand Duke Ivan III.

The most important work of Ryssenberch is the gold-plated silver monstrance (1474–77) in the Tallinn Nikolaikirche . In 1711, one year after the conquest of Estonia by Russian troops, the Tallinn magistrate gave it to the Russian Tsar Peter I. The monstrance is now kept in the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg .

Ryssenberch also produced a portrait of Saint Catherine (1481, destroyed) and a model of the city of Tallinn (1488–1491) made of silver.

Hans Ryssenberch was a relative of the Tallinn painter and sculptor Clawes van der Sittow .

literature

  • Richard Hausmann: "The monstrance of Hans Ryssenberch in the K. Ermitage in St. Petersburg" In: Messages from the area of ​​the history of Liv, Estonia and Courland , Volume 17 (1900), pp. 165–212
  • Eugen von Nottbeck: The Ryssenberch monstrance. Tallinn 1898

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church in the East band 20/1977 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 978-3-525-56376-2 ( google.de [accessed on July 27, 2019]).
  2. ↑ It bears the signature: “Hans Ryssenberch heuet dusse Munstrancy made myt of Godes Helpe. Amen."
  3. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 446
personal data
SURNAME Hans Ryssenberch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ryssenberg, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Goldsmith, active in Estonia
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1499