Hermann von Münster

Hermann von Münster (* 1330, † March 1392 in Metz ) was a Gothic stained glass artists. He probably came from Münster in Westphalia. With it, the French Gothic stained glass reached its artistic and technical climax.

Hermann is the first glass painter who is mentioned in the archives of the cathedral chapter of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Metz by name. On August 29, 1381 he received a payment of £ 22 for the execution of a window. The window was donated by Cardinal William Aigrefeuille, a legacy of anti-Pope Clement VII in 1384 there were negotiations between a committee of the chapter and Hermann on payments for the execution of large rose in the Metz Cathedral. The iconography of the Rose, which has a diameter of 11 meters, followed by a theological image program, the prophets of the Old Testament and the apostles of the New Testament is in a typological context.

1388 Hermann of Metz bought a house at the " Place de Chambre". There he died in March 1392nd The canon of Metz granted him the right to be buried in the cathedral. An epitaph in the first chapel of the northern aisle bears the inscription:

CI DEVANT GIST MAISTRE HARMAN LI VALRIER DE MUNSTERE TO WAILTEFALLE, FIST ET LE GRANT DE OZ Ceans, QUI LE MORUT JOR DE LA DAME NOSTRE EN MARS M.CCC.IIIIXX et XII.