Hans Urmiller

Hans Urmiller (born before 1529; died 1572 in Wolfratshausen ) was a German lawyer and judge .

Life

Urmiller was a judge of the Pfleggerichts Wolfratshausen from 16 January 1529 to 20 April 1535. He rose to the Duke of Bavaria Council and was the treasurer of Duke Albrecht V. In 1552 he left Castle Leutstetten built. He died, probably of the plague , in Wolfratshausen in 1572. His widow Kunigunde Rosenbusch von Notzing sold the castle in 1576.

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Mr. and Mrs. Urmiller with their children, around 1525

Hans Urmiller and his wife were probably portrayed in two paintings of the same format. These were painted on fir wood by Barthel Beham , a pupil of Albrecht Dürer , around 1525 . The portrait, which shows a man and his son (64.8 × 47.2 cm), is in the possession of the Städel in Frankfurt am Main (acquired in 1846). The picture of his wife with daughter (65.4 × 47.3 cm) is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art . The relationship between the two portraits as a counterpart was recognized by Max J. Friedländer . The art historian Stephan Kemperdick interprets the depicted woman as Margarete Schwab based on the coat of arms. The caption notes that it is a matter of "a member of the Bavarian patrician family of the Urmillers". In 2003, Falk Ohorn suspected that the person depicted was more likely to be associated with Harmating , where an Urmiller from Wolfratshausen had been Pfleger in the 16th century at the castle of the same name .