Hein Baxmann

Hein Baxmann (also Baxmann the Younger, Hein ; * around 1580 in Hamburg ; † 1647 ibid) was a wood sculptor of the Renaissance , from whom many works have been preserved in Hamburg and the surrounding area, especially in the Vier- und Marschlanden .

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Hein Baxmann is the son of Hein Baxmann the Elder († between 1599 and 1601), who was a woodcarver and carpenter and is mentioned in Hamburg as the elder man of the office ( guild ) of picture carvers . He had 14 children from two marriages; apart from Hein, Peter Baxmann can also be identified by name as a wood carver.

Hein Baxmann may have learned from his father, but nothing is known about the further course of his training and his years of traveling. As a self-employed carver, he delivered church furnishings to the rural area of ​​Hamburg , probably with the support of his workshop . Since 1627 he was himself a senior man of the office. Baxmann lived at Kattrepel until 1620, then at Gertrudenkirchhof . His creative period was highly productive, even if economically probably not particularly successful, because the move to the Gertrudenkirchhof involved selling his own house and moving into a rented house.

Baxmann represents the Dutch-influenced Renaissance style that was widespread throughout northern Germany around 1600. Its altars in particular are of an independent type, the middle part of which is influenced by Gothic folding altars , extended by Renaissance structures and framed by ornaments. Its delicate tendril friezes are reminiscent of templates by the German minor masters . His representation of the figures is very detailed and vivid, he occasionally loosens up the religious themes with humor and clandestine. A well-known example of this is the wheelbarrow transport of the poor sinner to hell on the Ochsenwerder Altar. It is a matter of dispute whether today's strong colors of the altars were originally intended by the artist or whether they were later adapted to contemporary tastes.

Works (selection)

Altar of the Trinity Church in Allermöhe

• Pulpit (1611, not preserved) u. Altar (1612/13) for the Trinity Church in Hamburg-Allermöhe
• Altar (1616, not preserved), pulpit (1621/22, partly preserved in original) and pews (1625) for the St. Nikolai Church in Hamburg-Moorfleet
• Altar of St. Pankratius Church in Hamburg-Ochsenwerder (1633)
• Altar (1636/37) of the St. Nicolai Church in Beidenfleth
• Altar (probably 1620) of the Friedenskirche in Siek

There are references to the delivery of a pulpit to the church of Billwerder .

literature

• Hildamarie Schwindrazheim:  Baxmann the Younger, Hein. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 676 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Gerd Hoffmann, Konrad Lindemann: Churches in town and country . Hower Verlag, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-922995-90-X , p. 152 ff .
• Hildemarie. Schwindrazheim: Sculpture in Hamburg from the 1st half of the 17th century in: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History, Vol. 30, 1929.
• Curriculum vitae on Hein Baxmann in: Hans Kramer: St. Pankratius Ochsenwerder . Ed .: Heimatring Ochsenwerder. Parish of St. Pankratius Ochsenwerder, Hamburg 2004, p. 25-27 .

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