Hans Stethaimer

Hans Stethaimer (* around 1400; † around 1460/61) was a German builder , stonemason , painter and sculptor . In the older literature on the history of architecture, he is wrongly identified with his uncle, the important Landshut master builder Hans von Burghausen , who used to be called "Hans Stethaimer (the elder)". Older literature on "Hans Stethaimer" mostly refers to Hans von Burghausen and his work. Due to the equality of the first names, it was not recognized until late that the "Master Hans" repeatedly mentioned in the sources on the Landshut Church were actually three different people: Hans Krumenauer , Hans von Burghausen and Hans Stethaimer, who worked one after the other as master builders Martinskirche were active.

Stethaimer was responsible for the continuation of the Martinskirche built by Hans von Burghausen in Landshut after his death in 1432 and also began with the construction of the mighty west tower. The western part of the nave and the western facade of the hospital church Heilig-Geist , also started by Hans von Burghausen, can be associated with Stethaimer. Under his direction, the west gable was also built in 1444 and the roof was built. Stethaimer was also involved in the reconstruction of the second Landshut parish church of St. Jodok , which was damaged in a fire in 1405 . Nothing has been preserved of his source-based works as a painter and sculptor (glass paintings for the Landshut Trinity Church and the Reichenbach am Regen monastery as well as an extensive high altar retable for the parish church of Hall in Tirol ). His personal contribution to the figurative and ornamental decoration of the portals of his three Landshut church buildings has not yet been clarified; speculatively, the attribution of the epitaph for his uncle Hans von Burghausen (around 1432) on the south side of the Martinskirche.

In 1970 the Hans Stethaimer elementary school in Burghausen was named after Stethaimer.

See also

• Hans von Burghausen
• Martin's Church in Landshut

literature

• Peter Baldass: Hans Stethaimer's real name. In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte. Vol. 14, 1950, ISSN  0083-9981 , pp. 47-64.
• Volker Liedke: Hanns Purghauser, known as Master Hanns von Burghausen, his nephew Hanns Stethaimer and his son Stefan Purghauser, the three master builders at St. Martin in Landshut. In: Volker Liedke, Norbert Nussbaum, Hans Puchta: Contributions to the life and work of the master Hans von Burghausen. Part 1 (= Burghauser Geschichtsblätter. Episode 39, ZDB -ID 342459-5 ). City of Burghausen, Burghausen 1984, pp. 1-70.
• Markus T. Huber: Stethaimer, Hans . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 106, de Gruyter, Berlin [?], Pp. 184f ..

The following older titles mainly refer to Hans von Burghausen's work:

• Karl Theodor von Heigel :  Stethaimer, Hans . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 128-130.
• Hans Buchheit , Georg Lill: Hans Leinberger, Hans Stethaimer. Exhibition in Landshut in the ducal city residence. City council, Landshut 1932.
• Franz Dambeck: Hans Stethaimer and the Landshut Building School (= negotiations of the Historical Association for Lower Bavaria. Vol. 82, ISSN  0342-247X ). Historical Association for Lower Bavaria, Landshut 1957.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The attribution to Stethaimer or von Burghausen is controversial, see: Friedrich Kobler: Epitaph des Hans von Burghausen an der Stadtpfarrkirche St. Martin bez. 1432. In: Franz Niehoff (Ed.): Before Leinberger. Landshut sculpture in the age of the rich dukes 1393–1503. For the exhibition of the museums of the city of Landshut in the Spitalkirche Heiliggeist from June 23 to October 28, 2001 (= writings from the museums of the city of Landshut. Vol. 10). Volume 1. Museums of the City, Landshut 2001, ISBN 3-924943-27-3 , pp. 282–287.
2. ↑ A closer look (history) - Stethaimer elementary school . In: Stethaimer elementary school . ( stethaimer-grundschule.de [accessed on March 25, 2018]).