Hans Wagner (carpenter)

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Hans Wagner (* around 1500/1510; † after 1562) was an in Königsberg active Prussian court cabinetmaker .

Life

Hans Wagner was appointed court carpenter by Duke Albrecht of Prussia on September 7, 1543 , with an initial payment, but without a fixed salary. From 1544 he designed the wood paneling of the so-called Muscovite room and the “camer negst dorbei”, possibly the so-called birth room of Frederick I , in the north wing of the Königsberg Castle , for which he received a high payment. In 1547/48 he lost the title of court carpenter again, but continued to work as a carpenter in the city of Königsberg. In 1548 he was paid for work in the "New House", in 1549 his work on the so-called "woman's room" in the castle was criticized. He lived in the district of Kneiphof , where he came into conflict with the council in 1550/51. In 1552 he was commissioned to demolish the southern cathedral tower in Königsberg. In 1557 a letter of safe conduct was issued in his name, Wagner seems to have moved to Gdansk , a partial plan of the fortification of Gdansk is dated in his sample book from 1562.

A sample book of 388 sheets of ink and red chalk drawings is known from him, including perspective depictions of exterior and interior architecture, wall coverings, profiles, doors, windows, tables, beds, chests, altars, etc., which identify him as an important artist of the Renaissance. From 1712 to 1945 the sample book was in the Wallenrodt Library in Königsberg. It is now viewed as a loss of war. In the pattern book there are dates from 1533 to 1562. Since the places Traydendof and Regensburg Wörth in the Upper Palatinate are mentioned in the pattern book , Adam Horn has assumed that Wagner came from the Upper Palatinate, and the identity with a 1499 and 1519 in Cham in the Upper Palatinate mentioned Hans Wagner suggested. However, all of this is hypothetical.

Thieme-Becker equates Hans Wagner with a builder of the same name, who was involved in the construction of the town hall in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate from 1539, without giving reasons .

literature

  • Hermann Ehrenberg : The fine arts under Duke Albrecht of Prussia. In: Hohenzollernjahrbuch 2, 1898, pp. 156–158 ( digitized version ).
  • Georg Habich : relief portrait of Tiedemann Giese in Königsberg. In: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections 49, 1928, p. 7.
  • Adam Horn: Hans Wagner and his Königsberger sample book. A contribution to the emergence of the Renaissance in Germany. In: Prussia. Journal for Heimatkunde and Heimatschutz 31, 1935, pp. 189–254 (= PhD thesis Königsberg 1931, with citing of all documents concerning Hans Wagner).
  • Wagner, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 36 .
  • Old Prussian biography . Volume 2, Elwert, Marburg / Lahn 1967, p. 766.

Remarks

  1. ^ Date of the contract August 24, 1544; 1545 Implementing Regulations.
  2. ^ Wallenrodtsche Bibliothek, call number N Mhc 24 . It is now viewed as a loss of war.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Brenner-Schäffer: History of the city Weiden. In: Negotiations of the historical association of the Upper Palatinate 15, 1853, p. 60 ( digitized version ): "Hans Wagner, the master builder". In the more recent literature this name is no longer mentioned.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian court carpenter, active in Königsberg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500 or around 1510
DATE OF DEATH after 1562