Hans Simon Holtzbecker

Hans Simon Holtzbecker , also Johannes Simon Holzbecher (* before 1649 , † after 1671 ), was a Hamburg flower painter.

Life

Flower garland from the Gottorf Codex

Holtzbecker became known for his flower pictures. He created on behalf of Duke Friedrich III. von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf from 1649 to 1659 the Gottorfer Codex , a four-volume plant atlas, and is therefore handed down in the books of the Gottorfer Rentekammer from 1654, 1655, 1659 and 1660. In 1660 Holtzbecker published the Anckelmann Florilegium on the plants in the garden of Hamburg's senior elder and Senator Caspar Anckelmann (1634–1698). The Moller-Florilegium , another five folios with flower pictures, was created for the Hamburg mayor Barthold Moller , who headed the Hanseatic city from 1643 to 1667. Of the three volumes by Moller that are still known to have been preserved, two are in the Hamburg State and University Library and another in the Oak Spring Garden Library in Upperville (Virginia) . A third Florilegium , the Green Florilegium (formerly called the Husum Florilegium ), is, like the Gottorfer Codex , owned by the Danish state in Copenhagen.

Works (selection)

The Moller Florilegium . tape 1 . Hamburg ( resolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de - around 1660).
The Moller Florilegium . tape 2 . Hamburg ( resolver.sub.uni-hamburg.de - around 1660).

literature

Hans Simon Holtzbecker . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 407 .
Helga de Cuveland: The Gottorfer Codex by Hans Simon Holtzbecker. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1989, ISBN 3-88462-065-7 .
Helga de Cuveland: Hans Simon Holtzbecker: a Hamburg plant painter at the Gottorfer Hof. In: Schleswig-Holstein. 3, 1992, pp. 4-8. ISSN 0036-6161 .

Dietrich Roth (ed.): The flower books of Hans Simon Holtzbecker and Hamburg's pleasure gardens . Goecke & Evers, Keltern-Weiler 2003, ISBN 3-931374-38-6 .

Dietrich Roth (ed.): The Moller Florilegium . Hirmer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7774-3425-4 .

Hanne Kolind Poulsen: The Green Florilegium. Prestel, Munich a. a. randomhouse.de (PDF; 2.6 MB).

Holtzbecker, Hans Simon. In: Hamburg biography . Volume I, p. 140.

Web links

Commons : Hans Simon Holtzbecker - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Posthumously published writings by Holtzbecher, Johannes S. in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Search for Hans Simon Holtzbecker in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Individual evidence

↑ Marina Heilmeyer: A Baroque flower garden. Hortus Anckelmannius . Prestel, Munich / Berlin / London / New York 2003, ISBN 3-7913-2809-3 .
↑ Wilfried Hansmann , Kerstin Walter: History of garden art . DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7670-5 , p. 75-77 .
↑ Hamburg's most precious book of flowers: The Moller Florilegium. in the blog of the State and University Library Hamburg. Status: June 22, 2007, accessed October 26, 2014.
^ The Moller Florilegium. (English) on the website of Christie's auction house . Status: March 17, 1999, accessed October 26, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Holtzbecker, Hans Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wooden cup, Johannes Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hamburg flower painter
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1649
DATE OF DEATH	after 1671

[1] Marina Heilmeyer: A Baroque flower garden. Hortus Anckelmannius . Prestel, Munich / Berlin / London / New York 2003, ISBN 3-7913-2809-3 .

[2] Wilfried Hansmann , Kerstin Walter: History of garden art . DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8321-7670-5 , p. 75-77 .

[3] Hamburg's most precious book of flowers: The Moller Florilegium. in the blog of the State and University Library Hamburg. Status: June 22, 2007, accessed October 26, 2014.

[4] The Moller Florilegium. (English) on the website of Christie's auction house . Status: March 17, 1999, accessed October 26, 2014.