Hans Acker

Hans Acker ( * 1380, † 1461 in Ulm ) was a German glass painter in Ulm is detectable in the 15th century. It belongs to the family of artists Acker, who knows more representatives in Ulm, such as Jacob Acker ( the elder ) and Jacob Acker ( the younger ). The exact biographical data are unclear.

Stylistic classification

Acker's style turns away from the so-called soft style, which is based on the ideal of beauty of the courtly world of the 15th century, the late Gothic realism. It is assigned so that the generation to Hans Multscher, Lukas Moser and Hans joke. At the same time it is an early representative of the Ulm School. His background images are dominated by landscapes and witness to a great attention to detail ( such as flowers, lakes, mountains, city silhouettes ). Connected with this is the highest craftsmanship and artistic quality.

Works

• Glass window cycle at the Minster emerged in 1430: In the local Bessererkapelle he has shown a " Last Judgment " in the " oriel " the stations of Biblical history and in the south window. Thus, for example, in the second window from the left ( see picture) from top to bottom six scenes from the Old Testament to see:

• Fall of man
• Expulsion from Paradise
• Fratricide (see picture)
• Noah's Ark (see picture)
• Abraham's banquet
• Sacrifice of Isaac

• Also located in a north window of Neithartkapelle of Ulm Minster a beautiful stained glass of the " St. Georg " of about 1440th

• Is also attributed to him the Passion window of the Bern Cathedral from 1441, which at that time was transported disassembled from Ulm in individual parts to Bern.

More images

The fratricide, detail from the second window

The 4th and 5th window in the choir of the Chapel Better

" Last Judgment " in the south window of the chapel Better