Hans Windrauch

Hans Windrauch , also Hans Wyntrauch (born before 1575; died after 1589) was a German plasterer who worked in Denmark and East Prussia in the second half of the 16th century .

Life

From 1575 he lived in Frederiksborg Castle . There he created the Rosensaal in 1575, which showed stuccoed deer with real antlers. From 1582 to 1585 he lived in Kronborg Castle, which he decorated. In the years 1586 to 1589 he can be traced in Königsberg. The “Master of Kronborg” created the deer hall in the Königsberg Unfriedtbau in 1588 , which showed deer as half and three-quarter relief. Model for the Konigsberg Deer Hall was the Rose Room at Frederiksborg Castle. Windrauch also created the ceilings in the rooms in the southwest corner of Königsberg Castle and in the southwest tower in Königsberg Castle with biblical scenes based on the model of Theodor de Bry and Doetechum . It also adorned the consistory hall in Königsberg Castle. The ceiling showed various ornaments and twelve individual figures in recessed fields. On the sides of the exposed crossbeam, child figurines and devil grimaces could be seen.

Windrauch founded a so-called "Kalkschneider School" in Königsberg. His students Gerhardt Schmidt from Rotenburg / Hanover and Wilhelm Kuer were hired by Count Georg Friedrich von Hohenlohe for his Weikersheim Castle, where they imitated the Königsberg stucco work. After his work in Königsberg, Windrauch probably traveled to Heilsberg. In the passport letter for wind smoke dated June 21, 1589, his abilities were certified:

"We certify that the excellent and skillful Johannes Windrah for the most noble prince in the decoration of the church and other rooms of the castle in Konigsberg by seldom beautiful and delicate stucco, in that he formed various figures in stucco and executed them in plastic, in such a way that excellent monuments of his artistry are available. "

literature

• Windrauch (Wyntrauch), Hans, Stukkator . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 53 .
• Eugen von Czihak and Walter Simon : Königsberger stucco ceilings . Publisher by Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1899, p. 7f.
• Wind smoke, Hans . In: Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg sculptures and their masters 1255-1945 . Holzner, Würzburg 1970, OCLC 4261883 , p. 193-195 .
• Wulf Dietrich Wagner : The Königsberger Schloß - A short building history from the end of the order to the arrival of Friedrich Wilhelm I (1525-1713). In: Bernhart Jähnig (Hrsg.): 750 years of Königsberg: Contributions to the history of a residence town for a time. Elwert, Marburg 2008, OCLC 281162800. pp. 385-416.
• Adolf Boetticher (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the province of East Prussia. On behalf of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament . Booklet VII. The architectural and art monuments in Königsberg. Bernhardt Teichert, Königsberg 1897, p. 80 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Windrauch (Wyntrauch), Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 53 .
2. ↑ cf. Wagner, p. 403.
3. ↑ Mühlpfordt, p. 193.
4. ↑ Czihak / Simon P. 8: " There are studded belts, with roses and cartridges, biblical scenes relatively small scale in rather strong relief, all in a style that Bandverschlingungen and box-wrought ornament shows, such as the type of ornamental engravings of a Theodor de Bry, while the figurative point to the Doetechum brothers as role models "
5. ↑ cf. Mühlpfordt, p. 194.
6. ↑ Mühlpfordt, p. 193.
7. ↑ cf. Mühlpfordt, p. 194: " significamus, Johannem Windrah in adornando templo et aliis conclavibus arcis Regiomontanae opere cementario et raro atque eleganti figuras in cemento formandi atque sculpendi genere egregiam operam praestisse "