Paul's stone

Paulus Stein , 1602, copper engraving by IC Renner

Paulus Stein (* 1550 ; † 1621 in Nuremberg ) was a German goldsmith.

Life

Paulus Stein lived and worked as a goldsmith in the vicinity of the Jamnitzer family in Nuremberg. From 1581 he can be verified as a master goldsmith in Nuremberg. A copper engraving by JC Renner from 1602 depicts the 52-year-old master with a trophy . Individual works by Paul Stein have been preserved. As a master's mark , he carried the vertically ligated monogram PS.

meaning

Paulus Stein is less of interest for his work in the shadow of the Jamnitzer family than for the preserved, albeit awkward, portrait from 1602, one of the earliest examples of a bourgeois portrait from the artisan class in reproduction graphics .

literature

Gerhard Bott: Wenzel Jamnitzer and the Nürnberger Goldschmiedekunst 1500–1700: Goldsmith's work: drafts, models, medals , exhibition catalog Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 1985, p. 184.

Individual evidence

↑ Marc Rosenberg: The goldsmith's mark, Volume 3, No. 3934, p. 100.
↑ Hans Meier: The portrait in the reproduction graphics of the 16th century, Journal for Art History 58th Bd., H. 4 (1995), pp. 449-477.

personal data
SURNAME	Stein, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German goldsmith
DATE OF BIRTH	1550
DATE OF DEATH	1621
Place of death	Nuremberg

[1] Marc Rosenberg: The goldsmith's mark, Volume 3, No. 3934, p. 100.

[2] Hans Meier: The portrait in the reproduction graphics of the 16th century, Journal for Art History 58th Bd., H. 4 (1995), pp. 449-477.