Hans von Kulmbach

Hans von Kulmbach (1480–1522)

Monument in front of the town hall in Kulmbach

Hans von Kulmbach also Hans von Culmbach , actually Hans Suess , also Hans Süß von Kulmbach (* around 1480 in Kulmbach , † around 1522 in Nuremberg ), was a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist .

He was a student of the painter Jacopo de Barbari and then went to Nuremberg, where he became close friends with Albrecht Dürer's assistant . In 1514 he was in Cracow , where he created the scenes from the life of the Blessed Virgin . He later had his own workshop in Nuremberg. Among his sponsors was the dealer and patron Hans Boner .

Altars

• Nicholas altar in the Lorenz Church in Nuremberg (1500–1507)
• Anne's Altar of St. Lorenz Church in Nuremberg (1510)
• Three King Altar in Wendelstein (1510)
• Altar of Mary in the Church of Skałka in Kraków (1511)
• Catherine Altar of St. Mary's Church in Krakow (1514–1515)
• St. John's Altar in Krakow; Inscription: Johannes Suess civis norimbergensis (1516)

Other works

• Portrait of the Margrave Casimir von Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1511)
• Memorial picture for Provost Lorenz Tucher based on a design by Dürer in the Sebalduskirche , Nuremberg (1513)
• The circumcision.

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  Peter, 1514–1516 (Uffizi)

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  Adoration of the Magi (Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro)

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  Woman with a Mirror (1505)

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  Catherine of Alexandria, 1511 (Krakow)

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  Zebedee, Maria Salome and the children Johannes Evangelista and James, ca.1511 (Saint Louis Art Museum)

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  Altar wing in St. Lorenz, Nuremberg. Nicholas altar with a representation of Cosmas and Damian

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  Anne altar in St. Lorenz, Nuremberg

Exhibitions

• "The Master and Catherine. Hans Suess von Kulmbach and his works for Krakow". Exhibition September 27, 2018 - January 27, 2019 in the National Museum Krakow, Erazm Ciołek Palais homepage

literature

• Agnieszka Gąsior: Hans Süß von Kulmbach's Cracow career. In: Artistic interactions in Central Europe (= Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia 1). Edited by Jiří Fajt, Markus Hörsch. Ostfildern 2006, pp. 325–346.
• Alexander Löhr: Studies on Hans von Kulmbach as a painter . Ergon, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-928034-86-3 (also dissertation at the Free University of Berlin 1993).
• Sigrid Walther: Hans Süss from Kulmbach . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1981 (without ISBN).
• Jakob Degen : Lucas Cranach and Hans von Kulmbach. 2 painters from neighboring Franconian states. In: Blätter vom Frankenwald, local supplement to the “Franconian Forest”. Born 4/1936. Number 1.
• Karl Sitzmann : artist and craftsman in Eastern Franconia . Kulmbach 1957, pp. 329-339.
• Peter Strieder :  Kulmbach, Hans Suess from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , pp. 277-279 ( digitized version ).
• Martin Wenz:  Hans von Kulmbach. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 808-812.
• Joseph Eduard Wessely :  Kulmbach, Hans Suess von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 363 f.
• Friedrich Winkler : The drawings by Hans Süss from Kulmbachs and Hans Leonhard Schäufeleins . In: Monuments of German Art . German Association for Art History, Berlin 1942.

Web links

Commons : Hans von Kulmbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans von Kulmbach in the catalog of the German National Library. Accessed October 27, 2009
• Works by Hans von Kulmbach at Zeno.org . Retrieved October 27, 2009
• Dieter Schmudlach: Hans Suess, a famous son of the city of Kulmbach. In: Landscape Museum Obermain. February 4, 2003, accessed October 27, 2009 . 
• Hans Suess: Portrait of Margrave Casimir of Brandenburg. In: Alte Pinakothek , Munich. Retrieved October 27, 2009 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DIRECTORY OF THE v.DERSCHAUISCHE Kunstkabinett zu NÜRNBERG .... Nuremberg, at the obligated auctionator Schmidmer., 1825., 250 p., Directory of rare art collections., 1825., Google Books, online , p. 7