Hans Vischer
Hans Vischer (* around 1489 in Nuremberg ; † September 8, 1550 in Eichstätt ) was a German sculptor and ore caster from the Vischer family of artists from Nuremberg .
Hans Vischer, the youngest son of the Nuremberg sculptor and ore caster Peter Vischer the Elder and his wife Margarethe, née Groß, took over the foundry workshop in 1529 in the third generation, in which he previously worked together with his father and the brothers Hermann and Peter , known as the Younger would have. The foundry was founded in 1453 by his grandfather Hermann Vischer .
His main works are the tomb of Elector Johann Cicero von Brandenburg (1530), today in the crypt of the Berlin Cathedral , and the Apollo Fountain in the courtyard of the Nuremberg town hall (1532). He is considered to be the creator of the “memorial complex” (1530–1536) of Albrecht von Brandenburg in the collegiate church of Aschaffenburg. In the Sigismund Chapel of the Wawel Cathedral in Krakow , he created the altarpiece (1531) together with a group of artists from Nuremberg under the direction of Hans Dürer . The grille at the entrance with the coats of arms of Poland, Lithuania and the Sforza family (1530–1532) also comes from the workshop of Hans Vischer. In the Marienkirche in Cracow, the epitaphs of Severin and Sofia Boner come from him (1538). His "rather smooth tomb of Bishop Sigismund" in Merseburg Cathedral from 1540 by Karl Woermann in "History of Art" from 1911 is mentioned.
literature
- Karl Sitzmann : Artist and craftsman in Eastern Franconia (= Die Plassenburg. Vol. 12, ZDB -ID 504385-2 ). Friends of Plassenburg, Kulmbach 1957, p. 159.
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| SURNAME | Vischer, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and ore caster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1489 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1550 |
| Place of death | Eichstatt |