Johann Kreuter

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Johann Kreuter , also Johann or Hans Kräuter , (traceable from 1551 in Schneeberg in the Erzgebirge to 1599 in Bautzen ) was a German painter .

Johann Kreuter was probably born in Schneeberg in the Ore Mountains, where he can first be proven. He may have been a brother of the sculptor and tailor Wolf Kreuter, who also worked there in the mid-16th century . He worked in Schneeberg until at least 1551, before he probably moved to Bautzen. There, in 1596, the city council commissioned him to paint the upper living room and the hall in the New House. In the same year he was commissioned to decorate the new Protestant altar (burned in 1634) for St. Peter's Cathedral . He was supported by five journeymen. It was documented for the last time in Bautzen in 1599.

He received his training, based on Christian Meltzer's Chronica von Schneeberg, in the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder. J. He is also a student of Lucas Cranach the Elder with Friedrich Schlie . Ä. mentioned, who together with his sons Johann Lucas and Lucas d. J. as well as with the brothers Martin, Mathias and Wolfgang Krodel, Gottfried Leigel, Peter Gottland, Georg Böhm and others was trained by this.

The earliest evidence of his work is possibly a gilded copper plate with a hallmarked portrait of Martin Luther , which is now in the Schneeberg town hall , signed with the initials I. K. and dated with the year 1549. This attribution is controversial, however, because the Stadt- und Bergbaumuseum in Freiberg has a very similar gold-plated brass plaque with identical initials, which is assigned to the goldsmith Jakob Köhler who works there .

A panel from the Cranach School ascribed to Johann Kreuter himself, depicting John the Baptist preaching in the forest , based on a woodcut made around 1516 by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä. goes back, is now kept in the Bautzen City Museum.

literature

supporting documents

  1. ^ Christian Meltzer: Chronica von Schneeberg. 1716, p. 639 ( digital.slub-dresden.de ).
  2. ↑ Friedrich Schlie: Descriptive directory of the works of older masters in the Grand Ducal Painting Gallery in Schwerin . Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1882, section: Cranach (I) , p. 104 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Museums of the city of Bautzen. Guide through the picture gallery of the city museum. 1980, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Kreuter, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herbs, Johann; Herbs, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1551
DATE OF DEATH after 1599