Hans Turner

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Clock of the Basel town hall,
with statues by Hans Turner (copies)

Hans Turner (mentioned 1504–1511 in Basel ) was a sculptor who worked in Basel .

Hans Turner, also called Hans Dürr, completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter or wood sculptor. In 1504 he made a statue of St. George for the Münsterplatz fountain in Basel, which has not been preserved. In 1510/1511 he created statues of the city saint Maria (later converted into a Justitia ), the emperor Heinrich II and his wife Kunigunde and a standard bearer for the clock case of the market facade of the Basel town hall . The originals are now in the Basel Historical Museum . The carpenter Jakob Steiner did his apprenticeship with him.

literature

  • Casimir Hermann Baer: The art monuments of the canton Basel city. Volume 1, Basel 1932.
  • Carl Brun (Red.): Swiss Artist Lexicon. Volume 3. Frauenfeld 1913, p. 344.
  • Stefan Hess / Wolfgang Loescher : Furniture in Basel. Art and craft of the carpenters until 1798, Basel 2012; ISBN 978-3-85616-545-1
  • Annie Kaufmann-Hagenbach: The Basler Sculpture of the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries, Basler Studies on Art History Volume 10, Verlag Birkhäuser, Basel, 1952.
  • Anne Nagel, Martin Möhle, Brigitte Meles: The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Stadt , Vol. VII The old town of Grossbasel I - secular buildings. Bern 2006.
  • Hans Rott : Sources and research on southwest German and Swiss art history in the XV. and XVI. Century III: The Upper Rhine, Sources II. Stuttgart 1936

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personal data
SURNAME Turner, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thurner, Hans; Dürr, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century