Michael Herr (painter)

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Michael Herr

Michael Herr , also Heer or Heere (born December 13, 1591 in Menzingen , † January 21, 1661 in Nuremberg ) was a German painter and engraver.

Life

Magic. Etching by Matthäus Merian after Michael Herr, Nuremberg 1626

Michael Herr began his training at a young age in Nuremberg and then went to Italy, where he stayed in Rome and Venice . In 1620 he returned to Nuremberg and in 1622 he delivered his sample of the 7 liberal arts with Mars and Justitia . As an artist, he is well documented in the history of the city of Nuremberg: In 1625 a painting was created for the Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit, which was destroyed in the Second World War, as part of a series of several pictures for the hospital. His pictures for the Nuremberg Castle have not survived either; however, they live on in engravings that other artists engraved according to his model: B. the siege of Nuremberg in the Thirty Years War or the great fireworks of 1649 for the Duke of Amalfi Octavio Piccolomini on the occasion of the end of this war. For the epitaph of the Lübeck merchant's son Johann Schlueter who was murdered in Mindorf (today part of Hilpoltstein ) near Nuremberg in the Johannisfriedhof (Nuremberg) , he created a painting on copper already mentioned by Joachim von Sandrart in 1646 , which can be verified on the tomb that still exists today until 1831 . The painter Peter Anton Cordüer († 1644 in Venice) was his pupil from 1632 to 1635.

Museum property

According to Thieme-Becker (1923), works by Michael Herr were in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum , in the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin and in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum . You can now find them internationally in the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

literature

Web links

Commons : Michael Herr  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to a more recent view in Metzingen ; Andreas Tacke : The paintings of the 17th century in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Inventory catalog, Mainz 1995, pp. 111–113.
  2. ↑ At the scene of the crime, a sandstone memorial cross commemorates him; suehnekreuz.de
  3. ^ Epitaph Johann Schlueter at Sandrart.net
  4. ↑ Theodor Hampe : Cordüer (Cordier), Peter Anton . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 408 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Works by Michael Herr in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , accessed on May 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Lord Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heer, Michael; Armies, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1591
PLACE OF BIRTH Menzingen
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1661
Place of death Nuremberg