Hermann Krieg

Hermann Krieg (mentioned around 1448–1470) was a Basel sculptor from the Netherlands .

Live and act

Hermann Krieg came from Utrecht and traveled around 1448 with a cousin, a canon and later cathedral dean of Utrecht, through France ( Avignon , Paris , Orléans ). In 1452 he was accepted into the spinning weather guild in Basel, where building craftsmen and woodworking professions were united. A year later he was accepted into the local heaven guild , to which the painters belonged. In 1455 he lived in Binningen , the following year he bought a house on Freie Strasse. It can be found in Basel until 1470 and was involved in various right-hand trades there.

literature

• Carl Brun (Red.): Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon, Vol. 4, p. 267.
• Stefan Hess , Wolfgang Loescher : Furniture in Basel. Art and craft of the carpenters until 1798. Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-85616-545-1 .
• Annie Kaufmann-Hagenbach: The Basel sculpture of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Basel Studies on Art History, Volume 10. Verlag Birkhäuser, Basel 1952.
• Paul Koelner : History of the spinning weather guild in Basel and their crafts. Basel 1931 (reprint 1970).
• Eugen A. Meier : 750 years of the EE guild for spinning weather. History and present of the traditional guild of Basel builders. Basel 1998.
• Walter Paatz : entanglements in art between 1360 and 1530. Influences from neighboring countries to the west on western Germany along the Rhine and German-Rhenish effects on these countries. Heidelberg 1967.
• Hans Rott : Sources and research on southwest German and Swiss art history in the XV. and XVI. Century III: The Upper Rhine, sources II. Stuttgart 1936, p. 85ff. ( Digitized version ).
• Georg Troescher : Art and artist walks in Central Europe, 800–1800 , Vol. 2: French and Dutch art and artists in the art of Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland. Baden-Baden 1954.