Hans Hirtz
Hans Hirtz or Hirtze was a German painter of the late Gothic period, recognized as a major painter by art historians as early as the 16th century.[1] He was active between 1421 and 1463 in Strasbourg and other areas of the Upper Rhine. His years of birth and death are unknown,[2] though a reference to his widow in a document of 1466 shows he died before that date - the document shows that she remarried to the Strasbourg stained-glass artist Peter Hemmel.[3]
Master of the Karlsruhe Passion?
[edit]He may be identifiable with the painter known as the Master of the Karlsruhe Passion, the notname of an outstanding artist of the Late Gothic Upper Rhenish school.[4] Dated to around 1450, six panels from the Karlsruhe Passion are now in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and one of the deposition of Christ is now in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ (in German) K. Kwastek: Puzzlespiel der Kunstgeschichte. Bild der 53. Woche - 28. Dezember 1998 bis 4. Januar 1999, www.museenkoeln.de (accessed January 2010)
- ^ (in German) "Hirtz, Hans (1421)". In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (ed.s) : Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Band 17, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1924, S. 146f.
- ^ (in German) Paul Frankl: Peter Hemmel - Glasmaler von Andlau. Berlin. 1956
- ^ (in German) Lilli Fischel: Die Karlsruher Passion und ihr Meister. Karlsruhe 1952
- ^ Picture of the Week - Master of the Karlsruhe Passion (accessed January 2017)
See also
[edit]- Jost Haller, active in Strasbourg at the same time
- Master of the Drapery Studies, probably a disciple of Hirtz
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