Hans Steiner (painter)

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Wild boar hunt near Bebenhausen : pen in brown, gray wash, 41 × 29.7 cm. Writing in the sky: 1576 hustle and bustle

Hans Steiner (* before 1550 in Riedlingen ; † 1610 ), including Hans Stainer , Hans Staimer , Hans Stayner , Johannes Steiner or Johannes Steimer , was a German draftsman and painter who worked in the Duchy of Württemberg . He was court painter in Stuttgart and ran a large workshop there, in which, among others, the painter Johann Philipp Greter (before 1585 – after 1604) received his training. Hans Steiner was one of the most important Württemberg artists.

Fields of activity

Land table of the Stuttgart Office from 1589

Hans Steiner's work appeared for the first time in 1570 when the large burnt-out hall was being renovated in Stuttgart Palace .

From 1572 he worked continuously for Duke Ludwig (1554–1593), who appointed him a properly paid court painter in 1576 and for whom he carried out a lot of work: decorative paintings, drawings and paintings depicting court life and other conditions and objects. For example, in 1580, Duke Ludwig's oil painting Hofjagd in Forst Bebenhausen , which measures 249 × 167 cm and is exhibited in the permanent collection in the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart.

In 1582 Hans Steiner painted the facade of the Stuttgart landscape house and in 1584 on the Stuttgart city hall.

1590 Hans Steiner was the sight of painted ceilings in the new construction of the Lusthaus commissioned (1584 to 1593) in Stuttgart. Under his supervision, the painters Johann Philipp Greter, Hans Karg (1551–1610), Hans Dorn (1550–1594) and Jakob Züberlein (1556–1607) participated in the execution of the work. In the form customary at the time, the ceilings were decorated with biblical scenes and hunting images. "They were probably modest artistic achievements, a result of simple master-craftsmanship ( Fleischhauer 1932)." (The Strasbourg painter and master builder Wendel Dietterlin (1550–1599), with whom Hans Steiner was friends, was also involved in the project with some of his own paintings .) Hans Steiner also painted for the new pleasure house based on designs by cartographer Georg Gadner (1520– 1605) 12 land tablets , only one of which has survived; the others were lost in a fire in the pleasure house in 1902. The preserved panel from 1589 with the representation of the Stuttgart office measures 148 × 225 cm and can also be found in the display collection in the Landesmuseum Württemberg. The lower third of the painting shows a view of Stuttgart, above it is a map in a lifelike country board drawing on an area of ​​about 130 × 130 cm.

Paintings on the city gates of Besigheim and Mundelsheim are still known of the works he carried out in later years .

literature

  • Werner Fleischhauer: The paintings in the Stuttgart Lusthaus . In: Württemberg past. Commemorative publication of the Württemberg History and Antiquity Association for the Stuttgart conference of the entire association of German history and antiquity associations in September 1932 . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1932, pp. 305-333.
  • Ruthardt Oehme: The history of the cartography of the German southwest . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Konstanz and Stuttgart 1961, p. 38.
  • Heinrich Geisseler: draftsman at the Württemberg court around 1600 . In: Yearbook of the State Art Collections in Baden-Württemberg 6, 1969, pp. 79–126.
  • Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe: The Renaissance in the German Southwest between the Reformation and the Thirty Years War . An exhibition of the state of Baden-Württemberg, 2 volumes, Karlsruhe 1986. ISBN 3-923132-08-5

Web links

Commons : Hans Steiner  - Collection of Images

Remarks

  1. ^ Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe: The Renaissance in the German Southwest between the Reformation and the Thirty Years War (1986), p. 947
  2. ^ Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe: The Renaissance in the German Southwest between the Reformation and the Thirty Years War , (1986), p. 947
  3. ↑ Ruthardt Oehme: The history of cartography of the German Southwest (1961), p. 38.
  4. ↑ Ruthardt Oehme: The history of cartography of the German Southwest (1961), p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stainer, Hans; Staimer, Hans; Stayner, Hans; Steiner, Johannes; Stainer, Johannes; Staimer, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Riedlingen
DATE OF DEATH 1610