Hans Tirol

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Stern hunting lodge in Bílá hora
Poděbrady Castle

Hans Tirol (* 1505/1506; † 1575/1576 in Augsburg ) was a German builder.

The first sources about Hans Tirol from 1531 can be found in Augsburg, where he lived in the house of the painter Jörg Breu the Elder. Ä. lived, whose son-in-law he was (marriage to Breu's daughter Anna). He was first a painter and together with Jörg Breu d. J. painted the wall of the Augsburg weavers' house . Hans Tirol was also the publisher of the Römer Kaiserl. Mayestat Carolij the Fifth Instruction on the Haws Austria with drawings by Jörg Breu the Elder . Ä 1535/36 and his son. His Eton Codex was created in 1541. 1541 From 1542 to 1548, Hans Tirol is proven to be the city architect of Augsburg. Between 1544 and 1548 he was responsible for the new construction of the Augsburg city fortifications.

The Roman-German King and later Emperor Ferdinand I brought Tyrol to his Prague court in 1551. There he worked, among other things, from 1552 to 1556 on the expansion of the upper floor of the Belvedere pleasure palace in Prague by Bonifaz Wohlmut . He carried out the reconstruction of the castles Schwarzkosteletz and Poděbrady , Brandýs nad Labem , Křivoklát and the construction of the renaissance Stern in Bílá hora . Tyrol has worked with P. Ferrabosco and B. Wolmut and from sources there are plans for the restoration of St. Vitus Cathedral , as well as some reports. Finally, in 1559, he was appointed chief builder of the crown of Bohemia . He was dismissed from this position four years later and shortly thereafter arrested for debt. In 1570 Tyrol returned to Augsburg and spent his twilight years eating a bread of grace from Emperor Maximilian II.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ daten.digitale-sammlungen.de

literature

personal data
SURNAME Tyrol, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tiroll, Hans; Tyrol, Hans; Tyroll, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder
DATE OF BIRTH 1505 or 1506
DATE OF DEATH 1575 or 1576
Place of death augsburg